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Technologies, Volume 13, Issue 1

2025 January - 41 articles

Cover Story: Balance and coordination skills are critical for children aged 4–8, as they improve motor abilities, build confidence, and lower injury risks. However, limited resources in school health and physical education programmes often impede comprehensive training, prompting efforts to explore innovative solutions to these issues. Researchers at Federation University have developed a projection-based Augmented Reality exergame prototype. A projector projects the game onto a wall, while a depth-tracking camera tracks children’s limb movement. Participants earn points by interacting with virtual objects using the correct limb while maintaining balance. Nineteen children aged 4–9 evaluated the prototype, providing valuable feedback on its usability, engagement, and interactivity to guide further refinement. View this paper
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Articles (41)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,486 Views
26 Pages

Nu—A Marine Life Monitoring and Exploration Submarine System

  • Ali A. M. R. Behiry,
  • Tarek Dafar,
  • Ahmed E. M. Hassan,
  • Faisal Hassan,
  • Abdullah AlGohary and
  • Mounib Khanafer

Marine life exploration is constrained by factors such as limited scuba diving time, depth restrictions for divers, costly expeditions, safety risks to divers’ health, and minimizing harm to marine ecosystems, where traditional diving often ris...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,360 Views
21 Pages

An Investigation of Infrared Small Target Detection by Using the SPT–YOLO Technique

  • Yongjun Qi,
  • Shaohua Yang,
  • Zhengzheng Jia,
  • Yuanmeng Song,
  • Jie Zhu,
  • Xin Liu and
  • Hongxing Zheng

To detect and recognize small-size and submerged complex background targets in infrared images, we combine a dynamic receptive field fusion strategy and a multi-scale feature fusion mechanism to improve the detection performance of small targets sign...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,293 Views
13 Pages

The timely reintegration into their daily routine of patients suffering from work-related musculoskeletal disorders is a priority in medical rehabilitation. This can be accomplished by means of certain procedures and adequate medical rehabilitation e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,549 Views
17 Pages

Advanced Autonomous System for Monitoring Soil Parameters

  • Băjenaru Valentina-Daniela,
  • Istrițeanu Simona-Elena and
  • Paul-Nicolae Ancuța

Context: This research investigates the advantages of real-time monitoring of soil quality for various land management practices. It also highlights the significance of spatio-temporal soil modeling and mapping in providing a clear and visual underst...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
13,286 Views
51 Pages

Robotic Systems for Hand Rehabilitation—Past, Present and Future

  • Bogdan Gherman,
  • Ionut Zima,
  • Calin Vaida,
  • Paul Tucan,
  • Adrian Pisla,
  • Iosif Birlescu,
  • Jose Machado and
  • Doina Pisla

Background: Cerebrovascular accident, commonly known as stroke, Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis represent significant neurological conditions affecting millions globally. Stroke remains the third leading cause of death worldwide and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,365 Views
20 Pages

UAVs are widely used for multiple tasks, which in many cases require autonomous processing and decision making. This autonomous function often requires significant computational capabilities that cannot be integrated into the UAV due to weight or cos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,313 Views
17 Pages

In recent decades, technology has undergone significant transformations, aimed at optimizing and enhancing the quality of human life. A prime example of this progress is the Internet of Things (IoT) technology. Today, the IoT is widely applied across...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,779 Views
33 Pages

Towards Transparent AI in Medicine: ECG-Based Arrhythmia Detection with Explainable Deep Learning

  • Oleksii Kovalchuk,
  • Oleksandr Barmak,
  • Pavlo Radiuk,
  • Liliana Klymenko and
  • Iurii Krak

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally, highlighting the need for accurate diagnostic tools. To address this issue, we introduce a novel approach for arrhythmia detection based on electrocardiogram (ECG) that incorporates exp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,920 Views
16 Pages

This paper investigates the application of graph theory and variants of greedy graph coloring algorithms for the optimization of distributed peer-to-peer networks, with a special focus on private blockchain networks. The graph coloring problem, as an...

  • Review
  • Open Access
63 Citations
31,904 Views
32 Pages

Vision Transformers for Image Classification: A Comparative Survey

  • Yaoli Wang,
  • Yaojun Deng,
  • Yuanjin Zheng,
  • Pratik Chattopadhyay and
  • Lipo Wang

Transformers were initially introduced for natural language processing, leveraging the self-attention mechanism. They require minimal inductive biases in their design and can function effectively as set-based architectures. Additionally, transformers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,874 Views
21 Pages

Study on the Dynamic Response of the Carbody–Anti-Bending Bars System

  • Ioana-Izabela Apostol,
  • Traian Mazilu and
  • Mădălina Dumitriu

Ride comfort is an important requirement that passenger rail vehicles must meet. Carbody–anti-bending system is a relatively new passive method to enhance the ride comfort in passenger rail vehicles with long and light carbody. The resonance fr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,133 Views
21 Pages

Increasing the Wear Resistance of Stamping Tools for Coordinate Punching of Sheet Steel Using CrAlSiN and DLC:Si Coatings

  • Sergey N. Grigoriev,
  • Marina A. Volosova,
  • Ilya A. Korotkov,
  • Vladimir D. Gurin,
  • Artem P. Mitrofanov,
  • Sergey V. Fedorov and
  • Anna A. Okunkova

The punching of holes or recesses on computer numerical control coordinate presses occurs in sheets at high speeds (up to 1200 strokes/min) with an accuracy of ~0.05 mm. One of the most effective approaches to the wear rate reduction of stamping tool...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,147 Views
22 Pages

Real-Time Deployment of Ultrasound Image Interpretation AI Models for Emergency Medicine Triage Using a Swine Model

  • Sofia I. Hernandez Torres,
  • Lawrence Holland,
  • Theodore Winter,
  • Ryan Ortiz,
  • Krysta-Lynn Amezcua,
  • Austin Ruiz,
  • Catherine R. Thorpe and
  • Eric J. Snider

Ultrasound imaging is commonly used for medical triage in both civilian and military emergency medicine sectors. One specific application is the eFAST, or the extended focused assessment with sonography in trauma exam, where pneumothorax, hemothorax,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,531 Views
22 Pages

Thyroid-related diseases, particularly thyroid cancer, are rising globally, emphasizing the critical need for the early detection and accurate screening of thyroid nodules. Ultrasound imaging has inherent limitations—high noise, low contrast, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,425 Views
30 Pages

The aim of this paper is to create image-processing Android apps to launch on the Google Play Store. Three apps with different usages will be presented for different situations. The first app is a night-vision app on an Android phone that uses OpenCV...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,677 Views
22 Pages

Cross-Attention Fusion of Visual and Geometric Features for Large-Vocabulary Arabic Lipreading

  • Samar Daou,
  • Achraf Ben-Hamadou,
  • Ahmed Rekik and
  • Abdelaziz Kallel

Lipreading involves recognizing spoken words by analyzing the movements of the lips and surrounding area using visual data. It is an emerging research topic with many potential applications, such as human–machine interaction and enhancing audio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,081 Views
25 Pages

Energy plays a major role in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), and measurements demonstrate that transmission consumes more energy than processing. Hence, organizing the transmission process and managing energy usage throughout the network are the mai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,865 Views
16 Pages

Smart Sport Watch Usage: The Dominant Role of Technology Readiness over Exercise Motivation and Sensation Seeking

  • Gershon Tenenbaum,
  • Tomer Ben-Zion,
  • Yair Amichai-Hamburger,
  • Yair Galily and
  • Assaf Lev

The study examines the link between technology readiness/acceptance, motivation for exercising, and sensation seeking and using or avoiding Smart Sport Watches (SSW). A sample of 315 adolescents, Mage = 29.6 (SD = 11.01) and healthy male (n = 95, 30....

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
13,331 Views
43 Pages

Blockchain Applications in the Military Domain: A Systematic Review

  • Nikos Kostopoulos,
  • Yannis C. Stamatiou,
  • Constantinos Halkiopoulos and
  • Hera Antonopoulou

Background: Blockchain technology can transform military operations, increasing security and transparency and gaining efficiency. It addresses many problems related to data security, privacy, communication, and supply chain management. The most resea...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,108 Views
29 Pages

This narrative review evaluates the curtail components of data maturity in manufacturing industries, the associated challenges, and the application of industrial data science (IDS) to improve organisational decision-making. As data availability grows...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,449 Views
20 Pages

Humans have a complex way of expressing their intuitive intentions in real gestures. That is why many gesture detection and recognition techniques have been studied and developed. There are many methods of human hand signal reading, such as those usi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,666 Views
36 Pages

This paper reviews the recent development of organic–inorganic hybrid dielectric materials for application as gate dielectrics in thin-film transistors (TFTs). These hybrid materials consist of the blending of high-k inorganic dielectrics with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,470 Views
21 Pages

Optimization of Energy Consumption in Voice Assistants Through AI-Enabled Cache Implementation: Development and Evaluation of a Metric

  • Alber Oswaldo Montoya Benitez,
  • Álvaro Suárez Sarmiento,
  • Elsa María Macías López and
  • Jorge Herrera-Ramirez

Intelligent systems developed under the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm offer solutions for various social and productive scenarios. Voice assistants (VAs), as part of IoT-based systems, facilitate task execution in a simple and automated manner, f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,375 Views
14 Pages

ZnO Nanoparticles by Hydrothermal Method: Synthesis and Characterization

  • Juan Carlos Anaya-Zavaleta,
  • Antonio Serguei Ledezma-Pérez,
  • Carlos Gallardo-Vega,
  • Joelis Rodríguez-Hernández,
  • Carmen Natividad Alvarado-Canché,
  • Perla Elvia García-Casillas,
  • Arxel de León and
  • Agustín Leobardo Herrera-May

The synthesis of reliable, cost-effective, and eco-friendly ZnO piezoelectric nanoparticles (NPs) can contribute to nanotechnology applications in electronics, sensors, and energy harvesting. Herein, ZnO NPs were synthesized using a hydrothermal meth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,567 Views
18 Pages

As large-scale poultry farming becomes more intensive and concentrated, a deeper understanding of poultry meat production processes is crucial for achieving maximum economic and ecological efficiency. The transmission and analysis of data collected o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,217 Views
19 Pages

Predictive Modeling of Total Real and Reactive Power Losses in Contingency Systems Using Function-Fitting Neural Networks with Graphical User Interface

  • Alfredo Bonini Neto,
  • Alexandre de Queiroz,
  • Giovana Gonçalves da Silva,
  • André Gifalli,
  • André Nunes de Souza and
  • Enio Garbelini

Technical power losses in power systems are unavoidable, caused by factors such as transformer impedance, conductor resistance, equipment inefficiencies, line reactance, and phase imbalances. Reducing these losses is essential for improving system ef...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,968 Views
18 Pages

Analog Replicator of Long Chaotic Radio Pulses for Coherent Processing

  • Lev Kuzmin,
  • Elena Efremova,
  • Pavel Vladyka and
  • Vadim Itskov

The relative structural simplicity of chaotic oscillators and the possibility of obtaining signals with a large dimension is of great interest for wireless data transmission and processing. The diversity of signal waveforms from the same source of ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,079 Views
27 Pages

Pre-Occupancy Evaluation of Affective Experiences in Building Information Modeling Through SLR and an e-Delphi Survey

  • Balamaheshwaran Renganathan,
  • Radhakrishnan Shanthi Priya and
  • Ramalingam Senthil

Building information modeling (BIM) is increasingly used during the conceptual design phase, which focuses on simulations such as energy usage analysis and comfort levels, like temperature and lighting conditions, to enhance user experience and well-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,993 Views
14 Pages

Analysis of Multidimensional Clinical and Physiological Data with Synolitical Graph Neural Networks

  • Mikhail Krivonosov,
  • Tatiana Nazarenko,
  • Vadim Ushakov,
  • Daniil Vlasenko,
  • Denis Zakharov,
  • Shangbin Chen,
  • Oleg Blyuss and
  • Alexey Zaikin

This paper introduces a novel approach for classifying multidimensional physiological and clinical data using Synolitic Graph Neural Networks (SGNNs). SGNNs are particularly good for addressing the challenges posed by high-dimensional datasets, parti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,033 Views
15 Pages

A Novel Vibration Suppression Method for Welding Robots Based on Welding Pool Instability Evaluation and Trajectory Optimization

  • Mingtian Ma,
  • Hong Lu,
  • Yongquan Zhang,
  • Zidong Wu,
  • He Huang,
  • Xujie Yuan,
  • Xu Feng,
  • Zhi Liu and
  • Zhangjie Li

Industrial robots are widely used in welding operations because of their high production efficiency. The structure of the robot and the complex stress conditions during welding operations lead to the vibration of the end of robot, which leads to weld...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,724 Views
14 Pages

In this research, we mainly increase the adhesion of PMMA substrate and film, which is reflected in the environmental test. This study used plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) to find the relationship between the intensity of XRD reflecti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,381 Views
19 Pages

Firefighting with Conductive Aerosol-Assisted Vortex Rings

  • John LaRocco,
  • Qudsia Tahmina,
  • Stanley Essel and
  • John Simonis

Conventional firefighting tools and methods can strain water sources, require toxic foams, or rely on pre-installed countermeasures. A low-cost, non-toxic, and portable option was previously overlooked in portable devices: electrically assisted &ldqu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,041 Views
18 Pages

Children’s Perceived Ease of Use of a Projected Augmented Reality Game Designed for Balance and Coordination Training

  • Yishi Liu,
  • Leigh Achterbosch,
  • Grant Meredith,
  • Evan Dekker,
  • Suryani Lim and
  • Andrew P. Lavender

Developing balance and coordination skills is essential for children, especially those aged 4–8, but limited Health and Physical Education (HPE) programs in schools hinder effective training. Game-based learning and Augmented Reality (AR) techn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,700 Views
17 Pages

Enhancing Security in International Data Spaces: A STRIDE Framework Approach

  • Nikola Gavric,
  • Andrii Shalaginov,
  • Aliaksei Andrushevich,
  • Andreas Rumsch and
  • Andrew Paice

The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and big data has catalyzed the emergence of data markets. Regulatory and technological frameworks such as International Data Spaces (IDS) have been developed to facilitate secure data exchange whi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,847 Views
31 Pages

Breast cancer remains one of the most prevalent and deadly cancers affecting women worldwide. Early detection is crucial, particularly for younger women, as traditional screening methods like mammography often struggle with accuracy in cases of dense...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
10,115 Views
21 Pages

Control Strategies for Steer-By-Wire Systems: An Overview

  • Muhammad Arjuna Putra Perdana,
  • Alexander C. Budiman,
  • Rina Ristiana,
  • Aam Muharam,
  • Kristian Ismail,
  • Muhammad Redho Kurnia,
  • Amin,
  • Naili Huda,
  • Sunarto Kaleg and
  • Abdul Hapid

Steer-by-wire (SbW) is the latest steering evolution, providing many benefits, such as reduced vehicle weight and enhanced steering capability. While reliability is one of the main concerns hindering its widespread application, the potential of this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,623 Views
19 Pages

Beyond data transmission, antennas have recently been utilized as sensors, offering the advantage of reducing hardware requirements and power consumption compared to systems where sensors are separate from antennas. Patch antennas, in particular, are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,681 Views
31 Pages

A Survey of Efficient Lightweight Cryptography for Power-Constrained Microcontrollers

  • Jesús Soto-Cruz,
  • Erica Ruiz-Ibarra,
  • Javier Vázquez-Castillo,
  • Adolfo Espinoza-Ruiz,
  • Alejandro Castillo-Atoche and
  • Joaquin Mass-Sanchez

Protecting sensitive data, such as data collected from sensors, is crucial for ensuring the accurate assessment of sensing devices and preventing unauthorized access. In this regard, Internet of Things (IoT) devices offer a promising alternative for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,498 Views
31 Pages

Intelligent IoT-Based Network Clustering and Camera Distribution Algorithm Using Reinforcement Learning

  • Islam T. Almalkawi,
  • Rami Halloush,
  • Mohammad F. Al-Hammouri,
  • Alaa Alghazo,
  • Loiy Al-Abed,
  • Mohammad Amra,
  • Ayooub Alsarhan and
  • Sami Aziz Alshammari

The advent of a wide variety of affordable communication devices and cameras has enabled IoT systems to provide effective solutions for a wide range of civil and military applications. One of the potential applications is a surveillance system in whi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,364 Views
23 Pages

Assisting Hearing and Physically Impaired Students in Navigating Immersive Virtual Reality for Library Orientation

  • Pakinee Ariya,
  • Yakannut Yensathit,
  • Phimphakan Thongthip,
  • Kannikar Intawong and
  • Kitti Puritat

This study aims to design and develop a virtual reality platform (VR-ISLS) tailored to support hearing and physically impaired students at the university library for navigating and utilizing library services. By employing an immersive virtual environ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,631 Views
20 Pages

ChatBlock: A Block-Based Chatbot Framework for Supporting Young Learners and the Classroom Authoring for Teachers

  • Chutiporn Anutariya,
  • Hathaichanok Chawmungkrung,
  • Watanee Jearanaiwongkul and
  • Teeradaj Racharak

Chatbots have been used as a digital interactive learning tool in education. Designing a chatbot for young students has challenges in their capability to formulate sentences by typing. Teachers have a challenge to develop a chatbot for desired purpos...

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