scholarly journals Social Live Streaming tools for the development of Virtual Workshops

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
C. García-García ◽  
J. Galán ◽  
R. Izquierdo
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Live Streaming ◽  
Internet Connection ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Developed World ◽  
Creative Team

<p class="Textoindependiente21">The increase of Social Media on the Internet has brought an unprecedented revolution which has changed the existing social communication systems to date. Currently, a high percentage of population in the developed world has a smartphone with Internet connection that allows being permanently connected. This enables new ways of approaching some types of tasks that have traditionally required of simultaneity in space and time, such as the development of creative proposals by a large number of people.</p><p class="Textoindependiente21">Technological advances have allowed, in a few years, the size reduction of a computer to today's mobile devices. Among the multitude of specifications offered by next-generation devices, the continuous evolution of the imaging capture systems is a highlight. The existence of both front-facing and rear cameras, both capable for taking pictures or record video has become widespread in the majority of mobile devices.</p>This paper proposes the use of Social Live Streaming Tools in mobile devices in order to facilitate the development of creative workshops, using the virtual territory as co-creation area with the aim of promoting one-to-many communications, so that a lecturer can perform a mass communication, in real time and delocalized, without losing the possibility of interact with the audience. These tools also allow the possibility for each member of a creative team to swap between different roles (viewer at some times or lecturer at others), thus stimulating the creative process through social participation.

scholarly journals PhysioDroid: Combining Wearable Health Sensors and Mobile Devices for a Ubiquitous, Continuous, and Personal Monitoring

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oresti Banos ◽  
Claudia Villalonga ◽  
Miguel Damas ◽  
Peter Gloesekoetter ◽  
Hector Pomares ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Health Assessment ◽  
Vital Signs ◽  
Body Motion ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Mobile Platforms ◽  
Technological Advances

Technological advances on the development of mobile devices, medical sensors, and wireless communication systems support a new generation of unobtrusive, portable, and ubiquitous health monitoring systems for continuous patient assessment and more personalized health care. There exist a growing number of mobile apps in the health domain; however, little contribution has been specifically provided, so far, to operate this kind of apps with wearable physiological sensors. The PhysioDroid, presented in this paper, provides a personalized means to remotely monitor and evaluate users’ conditions. The PhysioDroid system provides ubiquitous and continuous vital signs analysis, such as electrocardiogram, heart rate, respiration rate, skin temperature, and body motion, intended to help empower patients and improve clinical understanding. The PhysioDroid is composed of a wearable monitoring device and an Android app providing gathering, storage, and processing features for the physiological sensor data. The versatility of the developed app allows its use for both average users and specialists, and the reduced cost of the PhysioDroid puts it at the reach of most people. Two exemplary use cases for health assessment and sports training are presented to illustrate the capabilities of the PhysioDroid. Next technical steps include generalization to other mobile platforms and health monitoring devices.

scholarly journals Design and Implementation of an Augmentative and Alternative Communication System Based on MATLAB GUI

2021 ◽  
Vol 2113 (1) ◽  
pp. 012032
Author(s):  
Zihe Wang ◽  
Boyu Si ◽  
Jingwen Wang
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Word List ◽  
Augmentative Communication ◽  
Single Subject ◽  
Alternative Communication ◽  
Training Tool

Abstract In clinical practice, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) is an effective training tool to improve the communication skills of individuals with language impairment, hearing impairment, and autism. However, there are few studies on the development of augmentative communication systems based on Mandarin Chinese in China. This study presents an augmentative communication system developed using the MATLAB GUI platform. The system consists of two parts: a learning part and a communication part, where the learning part provides the basis of the vocabulary content for the system, covering 5558 words, and its content is mainly a word list designed based on the content of special school language textbooks. The communication part provides the system with a complete discourse training content, mainly by arranging and combining the vocabulary content of the learning part to form a complete discourse. This aided communication system can expand the vocabulary of people with language expression disorders and improve their social communication skills. In addition, the effectiveness of the system was tested in a single-subject experiment, and the results showed that the augmentative communication system is effective in learning pronunciation, expanding vocabulary, and improving the social communication.

scholarly journals Immersive Mobile Telepresence Systems: A Systematic Literature Review

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Luis de Souza da Silva ◽  
Lohan Rodrigues Narcizo Ferreira ◽  
Lidiane Teixeira Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
Mobile Environment ◽  
Remote Collaboration ◽  
Research Opportunities ◽  
Internet Connection

Telepresence can be defined as a system that provides remote collaboration between people in different locations, creating the feeling that both users share in fact the environment. The advances in communication, media and internet, has made possible the popularization of these systems. Smartphones have become increasingly powerful in processing, less expensive and more widespread. A single device combines various sensors, one or more cameras and internet connection, thus a potential hardware for telepresence applications. The main objective of this paper is to present a Systematic Literature Review to identify the main characteristics of immersive telepresence systems designed for mobile environment and to analyze research opportunities that can be further exploited or optimized. This research revealed that the development of immersive telepresence systems for mobile devices has increased in recent years, but is not yet widespread.

Holistic Framework for Quality Assessment of Mediated Social Communication

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Toet ◽  
Tina Mioch ◽  
Simon N.B. Gunkel ◽  
Omar Niamut ◽  
Jan B.F. van Erp
Keyword(s):  
Social Presence ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Spatial Presence ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Cognitive Reasoning ◽  
Mutual Awareness ◽  
And Behavior

Modern immersive multisensory communication systems can provide compelling mediated social communication experiences that approach face-to-face (F2F) communication. Existing frameworks to assess the quality of mediated social communication experiences are typically targeted at specific communication technologies and do not address all relevant aspects of social presence (i.e., the feeling of being in the presence of, and having an affective and intellectual connection with, other persons). Also, they are typically unsuitable for application to social communication in virtual (VR), augmented (AR) or mixed (MR) reality. Here we present a comprehensive and general holistic mediated social communication (H-MSC) framework and associated questionnaire (the H-MSC-Q) for measuring the quality of mediated social communication. The H-MSC framework comprises both the experience of Spatial Presence (i.e., the perceived fidelity, internal and external plausibility, and cognitive, reasoning and behavioral affordances of an environment) and the experience of Social Presence (i.e., perceived mutual proximity, intimacy, credibility, reasoning and behavior of the communication partners). Since social presence is inherently bidirectional (involving a sense of mutual awareness) the H-MSC-Q distinguishes between the internal (‘own’) and external (‘the other’) assessment perspectives. The H-MSC-Q is efficient and parsimonious, using only a single item to tap into each of the relevant processing levels in the human brain: sensory, emotional, cognitive, reasoning, and behavioral. It is also sufficiently general to measure social presence experienced with any (including VR, AR, and MR) type of multi-sensory (visual, auditory, haptic, and olfactory) mediated communication system.

Information Assurance in E-Healthcare

2011 ◽  
pp. 1703-1713
Author(s):  
Sherrie D. Cannoy
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Information Assurance ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Healthcare Industry ◽  
Privacy Policies ◽  
Internet Connection ◽  
Financial Difficulties ◽  
It Systems ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Security Regulations

There is growing concern that the healthcare industry has not adopted IT systems as widely and effectively as other industries. Healthcare technological advances generally emerge from the clinical and medical areas rather than clerical and administrative. The healthcare industry is perceived to be 10 to 15 years behind other industries in its use of information technology (Raghupathi & Tan, 1997). Incorporating new technology into the healthcare organization’s processes is risky because of the potential for patient information being disclosed. The purpose of this study is to investigate the information assurance factors involved with security regulations and electronic medical record initiatives—a first necessary step in making the healthcare industry more efficient. Noncompliance of a healthcare organization’s employees with security and privacy policies (i.e., information assurance) can result in legal and financial difficulties, as well as irreparable damage to an organization’s reputation. To implement electronic medical initiatives, it is vital that an organization has compliance with security and privacy policies. E-health technology is a relatively current phenomenon. There are two types of distance-related healthcare that are technology driven. Telehealth is known for involving telemedicine—medicine practiced over a distance, with the impetus of control being in the physician’s hands (Maheu, 2000). E-health involves the patient or physician actively searching for information or a service, usually via the Internet (Maheu). Electronic medical records fall into the e-health category because the physician, healthcare partners, and patient would be able to access the information through an Internet connection.

scholarly journals Controlling a robotic arm with Augmented reality

2020 ◽  
Vol 305 ◽  
pp. 00022
Author(s):  
Marius Leonard Olar ◽  
Marius Risteiu ◽  
Arun Fabian Panaite ◽  
Mihai Rebrisoreanu ◽  
Oliviu Musetoiu
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Upper Limb ◽  
Robotic Arm ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Smart Objects ◽  
Remote Supervision ◽  
Internet Connection ◽  
The Patient’S View ◽  
And Control

Under the circumstances of a patient’s upper limb disability, aided by a robotic arm with faulty controls, assistance is needed, using augmented reality as an auxiliary. Our system, with a headset, using an internet connection and an augmented reality device, placed on the assistant’s head, can ensure communication between the two, for both remote supervision and control. The assistant can enhance the control over the robotic arm, while having a head up display on the augmented reality glasses, based on what the patient sees. The communication is established through PC or mobile devices, connected to the internet. Having the patient’s view, and enhanced control over the robotic arm, the assistant can interact with nearby smart objects.

scholarly journals Metamaterial Concentrator for Thermal Energy Harvester

2020 ◽  
Vol 190 ◽  
pp. 00032
Author(s):  
Rapha Nichita Kaikatui ◽  
Adik Putra Andika ◽  
Vinsenius Letsoin ◽  
Paulus Mangera ◽  
Damis Hardiantono ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Energy ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Electrical Potential ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Heat Energy ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Alternative Source ◽  
Heating And Cooling ◽  
Technological Advances

Energy demand increases in line with rapid technological advances. Research on the harvesting of renewable energy continues to be done to make efforts to convert heat energy, which is very abundant in our daily environment. Thermoelectric technology is an alternative source in answering energy needs and can produce energy on a large and small scale. Thermoelectric technology works by converting heat energy into electricity directly, or from electricity to cold. This research presents an experimental study conducted to find out the thermoelectric characteristics of the TEC in the reversal function, with heating and cooling tests on each side of the TEC type thermoelectric element, carried out to obtain the voltage value as the electrical potential generated from this element. The result is thermoelectric potential to generate DC electricity but is very limited in the function of maintaining a heat source on the hot side element. This research then proposes thermal metamaterial that functions as a collector of thermal energy in the method of converting thermal energy into DC electrical energy for the application of low power consumption communication systems.

The impact of technology on medication adherence

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (8) ◽  
pp. 233-235
Author(s):  
Chelsie Heesch
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Medication Adherence ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
Medication Nonadherence ◽  
Symptom Monitoring ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Therapeutic Outcomes ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
The Impact

Medication nonadherence is a large contributor to inadequate therapeutic outcomes, especially among patients with mental illness and carries a high cost. Intervention strategies to increase adherence have incorporated technological advances, including electronic symptom monitoring and communication systems for patients and providers. This article presents a review of several studies demonstrating how technology may affect medication adherence.

scholarly journals Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia’s presence in The Directory of Open Access Repositories (DOAR) and The Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR): A comparative study of their ratio of open access material

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samir Hachani
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Access Policy ◽  
Internet Connection ◽  
The People ◽  
Developed World

AbstractOpen access has seen a great many developments since its inception some twenty five years ago. From an individual initiative it evolved into an institutional then a governmental action that gave it more weight. These initiatives that took place in the last decade of the twentieth century, and are still going on, have coincided with a revolution that has impacted our daily lives and more precisely our lives as researchers: the Internet which changed our ways of doing scientific research and whose influence could be seen live under our own eyes. While open access in the developed world has thrived, in the developing world to which Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia belong it seems to lag behind. As an example of this, the three countries have together only fifteen and thirteen open repositories in The Directory of Open Access Repositories (DOAR) and The Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) respectively. Beside this quantitative weakness, these open repositories do not seem to implement a clear open access policy as most of them do restrict access to registered users with an account and a password which contravenes the most primary open access philosophy allowing access to scientific literature pending only an Internet connection. Additionally, previous studies have shown that the most basic open access concepts seem to be misconstrued by those in charge for a national open access policy. In consequence, this has impacted negatively on the performance of these open repositories and the ratio of its open access literature. It is suggested that bigger importance and means be given to the question by the people in charge. Cooperative projects such as ISTeMAG should be encouraged and should be the basis of a sound open access policy and allow these countries to attain the much coveted title of The Information Society.

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