The paper investigates the interaction effects between the search strategy of software agents and the subject’s product class knowledge. The experimental study consists of a 2 (product class knowledge: high, low) x 4 (agent search strategy: elimination by aspects (EBA), weighted average method (WAD), profile building (PROFILE) , and simple hypertext (HYPERTEXT)) design with product class knowle...

This paper presents a novel human-robot interaction approach to grid mapping of an indoor environment based on a 3D Kinect sensor and the Grid-based mapping algorithm. It mainly includes three modules: Skeleton Tracking, Robot Control and GMapping. Firstly, the Skeleton Tracking module builds a human skeleton model, extracts the skeleton joints’ position information from 3D visual data and gene...

With the development of information science and robotic technology, it becomes more important to generate human interactive robots. The design platform for developing such robots should satisfy three basic conditions: (1) It can test safely the performance of the robot through the physical interaction with human, (2) Human subject can estimate subjectively the outside appearance of the robot, a...

In this paper, an offline service discovery method is proposed with an interaction framework of humans, robots, and environments. It creates a dynamic robot control system with flexible and uncomplicated configuration. A number of experiments have been conducted successfully. The experiments show that this framework works well and provides some advantages to existing systems. Copyright © 2005 I...

This article takes into consideration a new field of research called Nanopathology and describes the fundamentals of this new discipline. The paper is divided into three main sections: the in-vitro and in-vivo experiments with 5 types of nanoparticles, and the clinical pieces of evidence of the presence of particulate matter in human pathological tissues affected by diseases of unknown origin. ...

Due to the rapid progress of computer technology, we are being shifted to ubiquitous computing paradigm. In ubiquitous computing environment, we will frequently interact with various devices at the same time. So, the system that alleviates a burden of excessive interactions is required. In this paper we describe a framework for the development of the wearable computer system that can understand...

IT strategy is often intended to be driven by the organisational vision and strategy to achieve its goals periodically. IT has significant impact on an organisation’s success or failure. It therefore does not operate in a vacuum. The issue is not just about information technology. Rather, it is the strategic application of technology, including management, which is about people and the process....

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia diagnosed in people over 65 years of age. There is no cure for the disease, which worsens as it progresses, and eventually leads to death. As the disease advances, symptoms can include confusion, irritability and aggression, mood swings, trouble with language, and long-term memory loss. As the sufferer declines they often withdraw fro...

This work analyses the use of NFC technology to simplify the interactions of users with context-aware services offered by intelligent environments. Touch Computing is a novel explicit user interaction mechanism in which users accompanied by their NFC-enabled mobile devices request services from the environment by touching tags or other NFC-enabled devices. This paper describes the deployment of...