2022 December - 29 articles
This paper presents research on the topic of virtual reality (VR) applications. It conducts a quantitative analysis of virtual reality applications available in the international market using the example of a digital platform, which was the Steam pla...
Melanoma is one of the skin cancer types that is more dangerous to human society. It easily spreads to other parts of the human body. An early diagnosis is necessary for a higher survival rate. Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) is suitable for providing...
Most studies that claimed changes in smartphone usage during COVID-19 were based on self-reported usage data, e.g., that collected through a questionnaire. These studies were also limited to reporting the overall smartphone usage, with no detailed in...
Joint pain is a prominent symptom of Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis (OA), impairing patients’ movements and affecting the joint mechanics of walking. Self-report questionnaires are currently the gold standard for Hip OA and Knee OA pain assessment...
Remote sensing-based crop mapping has continued to grow in economic importance over the last two decades. Given the ever-increasing rate of population growth and the implications of multiplying global food production, the necessity for timely, accura...
Shadow information technology (SIT) revolves around systems that are hidden but are still managed by the same business entities. It consists of the use of devices, software, systems and applications without the information technology (IT) department&...
Crypto, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and the metaverse have taken a massive place in our daily conversations and are highly valued. Moreover, NFTs range from luxury fashion to art, and sound is no exception, although it still needs to be explored. Cou...
A recurring motif in recent scholarship in the computing ethics and society studies (CESS) subfield within computing have been the calls for a wider recognition of the social and political nature of computing work. These calls have highlighted the li...
Purpose: This research attempts to profoundly understand the factors influencing the usage of e-tax declarations. Design/methodology/approach: In a cross-sectional survey, partial least square-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) is used to examine...
Breast cancer accounts for 30% of all female cancers. Accurately distinguishing dangerous malignant tumors from benign harmless ones is key to ensuring patients receive lifesaving treatments on time. However, as doctors currently do not identify 10%...
Background: Small regional airports provide the necessary assistance to enable mobility in isolated areas where access is critical and costly due to poor road infrastructure and geographic constraints. Colombia’s air transportation industry has...
This systematic review aimed to provide a comprehensive view of (1) the purposes of research studies using smart city infrastructures to promote citizen participation in the cities’ management and governance, (2) the characteristics of the prop...
With the widespread application of digital healthcare, mobile health (mHealth) services are also developing in maternal and child health, primarily through community-based services, such as Posyandu in Indonesia. Patients need media for consultation...
Noise in requirements has been known to be a defect in software requirements specifications (SRS). Detecting defects at an early stage is crucial in the process of software development. Noise can be in the form of irrelevant requirements that are inc...
This study aims to identify the factors that influence the use of digital marketing by SMEs in Medellín during COVID-19, proposing five factors that influence the use of these digital tools by 120 SMEs in Medellín, Colombia. The researc...
In user experience evaluation (UXE), it is generally accepted that the order in which users perform tasks when using a product is often random rather than fixed. UXE based on these so-called randomly ordered tasks is challenging. Although several art...
(1) Background: The COVID-19 pandemic forced educational institutions to radically change their teaching and learning methods. Many institutions found it a challenge when they opted to deliver classes online. Given the success of several EduTubers, t...
Osteoporosis is still a serious public health issue in Thailand, particularly in postmenopausal women; meanwhile, new effective screening tools are required for rapid diagnosis. This study constructs and confirms an osteoporosis screening tool-based...
Baseball is a sport that involves a large number of statistics, which are often displayed during broadcast events to show the players’ performance levels. With the advent of big data, the amount and types of data used in broadcasts have increas...
Chatbots with personality have been shown to affect engagement and user subjective satisfaction. Yet, the design of most chatbots focuses on functionality and accuracy rather than an interpersonal communication style. Existing studies on personality-...
The overall goal of this study is to define an intelligent system for predicting citrus fruit yield before the harvest period. This system uses a machine learning algorithm trained on historical field data combined with spectral information extracted...
Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness worldwide. Blood pressure (BP) dysregulation is a known risk factor, and home-based BP monitoring is increasingly used, but the usability of digital health devices to measure BP among glaucoma patients is not...
Data analysis of weather phenomena to either predict or control human imprint on the environment requires the collection of various forms of observational data ranging from historical and longitudinal to forecast. The objective of this research paper...
With advances in science and technology and changes in industry, research on promising future technologies has emerged as important. Furthermore, with the advent of a ubiquitous and smart environment, governments and enterprises are required to predi...
Malaria poses a global health problem every day, as it affects millions of lives all over the world. A traditional diagnosis requires the manual inspection of blood smears from the patient under a microscope to check for the malaria parasite. This is...
Immersive technologies have been shown to significantly improve learning as they can simplify and simulate complicated concepts in various fields. However, there is a lack of studies that analyze the recent evidence-based immersive learning experienc...
The community’s mother and child health (MCH) and nutrition problems can be overcome through evidence-based health policy. Posyandu is an implementation of community empowerment in health promotion strategies. The iPosyandu application (app) is...
While the consumption of visual information becomes a daily commodity integrated into our lives, data visualisation is dominated by dashboards and charts. The main contribution of this article is an advanced way to visualise data as a data story. We...
The aim of the research is to semi-automate the process of generating formal specifications from legal contracts in natural language text form. Towards this end, the paper presents a tool, named ContrattoA, that semi-automatically conducts semantic a...
