The article concerns the creation, in accordance with EU idea of integrated accessibility, more and favorable legal design conditions for shaping space residential development environment equalized physical social accessibility among elderly, disabled non-disabled people. research results presented indicate existing limitations new possibilities improving general principles creating urban assum...

This study presents an analysis of the potential uses BIM for managing maintenance and refurbishment existing housing assets to propose thermal comfort energy efficiency guidelines future social projects in Brazil. To do so, a case residential development with social–environmental certification city Garanhuns, Pernambuco, Brazil was performed, literature review on use unit conducted. The standa...

Background: Visualization and analysis of molecular profiling data together with biological networks are able to provide new mechanistical insights into biological functions. Currently, high-throughput data are usually visualized on top of predefined network layouts which are not always adapted to a given data analysis task. We developed a Cytoscape app which allows to construct biological netw...

An automatic method for synthesizing MEMS mask-layouts is presented. This method uses evolutionary algorithm techniques to optimize the mask-layouts for a forward simulation of fabrication. Initially, a random population of masklayouts is generated. The fabrication of each layout is simulated through a digital process simulator to produce a 3D fabricated shape, which is compared to a user-speci...

Visualizations of hierarchical data usually focus on conveying structure. However, with really large hierarchies, layouts tend to become overcrowded, making it difficult to see details about specific nodes. In contrast, ShamsehTrees focus on layouts centered on a node of interest, provide interactive nested layouts that were inspired by artistic and natural floral patterns, and make use of the ...

Like the sequence of words in written language, comic book page layouts direct images into a deliberate reading sequence. Conventional wisdom would expect that comic panels follow the order of text: left-to-right and down - a "Z-path" - though several layouts can violate this order, such as Gestalt groupings of panels that deny a Z-path of reading. To examine how layouts pressure readers to cho...

User contributions are critical to social commerce sites. Prior studies mainly examined motivational factors influencing user contributions. In the current study, we examine effects of interface layouts on user contributions, from the perspective of attention allocation. We also distinguish between the two types of user contributions: creating original sharing and appreciating others’ sharing. ...

Network-based space layouts are fine-grained models of architectural spaces. They include rich spatial relationships between layout elements. Such information tends to be limited in existing space representations in building information modeling (BIM) systems. Network-based space layouts could be useful in the space planning and building automation domains. Their main feature is a geometric net...

Digital image collection interface layouts vary in the nature and degree of contextual information they provide to their users, thus enabling or impeding specific tasks. We are exploring image presentation techniques to support image-centric cognitive tasks in the context of cardiovascular systems research and education. To investigate the effect of image layout on user performance, we conducte...