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Informatics, Volume 4, Issue 1

2017 March - 6 articles

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Articles (6)

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
18,444 Views
18 Pages

Visualizing 3D Terrain, Geo-Spatial Data, and Uncertainty

  • Steve Dübel,
  • Martin Röhlig,
  • Christian Tominski and
  • Heidrun Schumann

Visualizing geo-spatial data embedded into a three-dimensional terrain is challenging. The problem becomes even more complex when uncertainty information needs to be presented as well. This paper addresses the question of how to visually communicate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
161 Citations
49,901 Views
16 Pages

Motivation and User Engagement in Fitness Tracking: Heuristics for Mobile Healthcare Wearables

  • Stavros Asimakopoulos,
  • Grigorios Asimakopoulos and
  • Frank Spillers

Wearable fitness trackers have gained a new level of popularity due to their ambient data gathering and analysis. This has signalled a trend toward self-efficacy and increased motivation among users of these devices. For consumers looking to improve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Health 2016)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
18,971 Views
24 Pages

Cognitive gameplay—the cognitive dimension of a player’s experience—emerges from the interaction between a player and a game. While its design requires careful consideration, cognitive gameplay can be designed only indirectly via the design of game c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,936 Views
19 Pages

One of the main limitations of the typical hidden Markov model (HMM) implementation for gene structure identification is that a single structure is identified on a given sequence of genomic data—i.e., identification of overlapping structure is not di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
9,596 Views
12 Pages

Assistive technology (AT) can help support the continued independence of people living with dementia, supported by informal carers. Opinions and preferences of informal carers towards a range of assistive and digital information and communication tec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Health 2016)
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