This study aimed at investigating the effect of using smart board technology on the EFL learners' achievement motivation and willingness to communicate (WTC). The participants were 65 second grade female students from Shahid Nazari girls’ high school in Andimeshk, Iran, who were selected randomly. An OPT was administrated to the the participants to homogenize them. Other instruments were Herman...

In the advancement of Internet technologies all machineries are inter related. Using the technology improvement, we can make many things in high effective and simple for human life. There are several places of Internet of Things (IOT) is used. Such as smart environment, smart home, smart city, smart parking, agriculture fields and medical fields. In medical field also, there are several process...

Chip-Secured XML Access (C-SXA) is a versatile and tamper-resistant XML-based Access Right Controller embedded in a smart card. C-SXA can be used either to protect the privacy of onboard personal data or to control the flow of data extracted from an external source. Tamperresistance is inherited from the smart card for on-board data or achieved using cryptographic techniques for external data. ...

The mobile phone technology like Dual Tone Multi Frequency (DTMF) and Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) have pushed us to control the things around us with mobile phones and the world is going mobile. Whatever appliances we are dealing with, in our daily life, we want to control them without physically moving to the control unit. As we see in our schools and colleges, we are using ma...

New perspectives for the electric vehicle (EV) operation in smart grids and smart homes context are presented. Nowadays, plugged-in EVs are equipped with on-board battery chargers just to perform the charging process from the electrical power grid (G2V – grid-to-vehicle mode). Although this is the main goal of such battery chargers, maintaining the main hardware structure and changing the digit...

Smart Classroom is an augmented classroom in which Tele-education functions can be seamlessly integrated with the face-to-face education environment. Some recent achievements of this project is described here. The first is the development of the Virtual Assistant module, which can enhance the speech interaction between the teacher and the system. Following is the integration of a SmartBoard scr...

Computerized wearable devices such as smart watches will become valuable nursing tools. This paper describes a smart-watch system developed in close collaboration with a team of nurses working in a Swedish ICU. The smart-watch system provides real-time vital-sign monitoring, threshold alarms, and to-do reminders. Additionally, a Kanban board, visualized on a multitouch screen provides an overvi...

It is critical for all students to become skilled users of a variety of software and hardware applications. It is particularly important for students training to become educators because their employers will expect them to be more knowledgeable and comfortable with instructional technologies than the students they teach. To facilitate skill development, a syllabus was designed to incorporate al...