With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT), the positioning accuracy requirement of the IoT is increasing, especially for those applications without Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals. Ultra-Wideband (UWB) is treated as...
With the advent of smart mobile devices, end users get used to transmitting and storing their individual privacy in them, which, however, has aroused prominent security concerns inevitably. In recent years, numerous researchers have primarily propose...
“Education Cloud” is a cloud-computing application used in educational contexts to facilitate the use of comprehensive digital technologies and establish data-based learning environments. The immense amount of digital resources, data, and...
Applications of virtual reality (VR) have grown in significance in medicine, as they are able to recreate real-life scenarios in 3D while posing reduced risks to patients. However, there are several interaction challenges to overcome when moving from...
This study presents a framework for enabling autonomous pick–place operations, addressing the need for efficiency in complex logistics environments using a direct multi-target teaching interface. First, tag and segmentation information were com...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used in the new generation of communication systems. They serve as access points, base stations, relays, and gateways to extend network coverage, enhance connectivity, or offer communications services...
Aircraft maintenance is a highly relevant procedure in many industries, yet obtaining qualified personnel to carry it out is a difficult task. Training in such techniques is complex and requires access to facilities and materials that are not readily...
In recent years, extended reality (XR) technologies have been increasingly used as a research tool in behavioral studies. They allow experimenters to conduct user studies in simulated environments that are both controllable and reproducible across pa...
In recent decades, the everyday working environment has increasingly shifted into the digital realm. Accordingly, the assessment of human working performance has become strongly influenced by the level, frequency, and mode of interaction with the dig...
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become a valuable platform for many applications, including communication networks. UAV-enabled wireless communication faces challenges in complex urban and dynamic environments. UAVs can suffer f...
Background: Traditional audiological assessment often does not properly reflect the challenges experienced by cochlear implant (CI) users in complex listening environments. Deficits in speech recognition and sound localization ability persist despite...
In an urban and uncontrolled environment, the presence of mixed traffic of autonomous vehicles, classical vehicles, vulnerable road users, e.g., pedestrians, and unprecedented dynamic events makes it challenging for the classical autonomous vehicle t...
The study examines the cumulative impact of factors that affect usability testing for user-centered web design, namely the so-called ‘contextual fidelity model’ factors that include product properties, task features, user traits, and envi...
To address the resource allocation problem in dynamic environments where multiple unmanned aerial vehicle base stations (UAV-BSs) provide efficient downlink services to ground users, this paper proposes a novel hierarchical decision-making mechanism...
In this modern world, with the increase of complexity of many technologies, especially in the micro and nanoscale, the field of robotic manipulation has tremendously grown. Microrobots and other complex microscale systems are often to laborious to fa...
Multiscale virtual environments (MSVEs) allow the integration of elements and environments at different scale levels into a unified space, which facilitates researchers’ perception, understanding, and experimental research of complex geospatial...
Indoor navigation has attracted commercial developers and researchers in the last few decades. The development of localization tools, methods and frameworks enables current communication services and applications to be optimized by incorporating loca...
This study introduces a robust offline system for 2D indoor navigation, developed to address common challenges such as complex layouts and connectivity constraints in diverse environments. The system leverages advanced spatial modeling techniques to...
The rapid development of Cloud Computing (CC) has led to the release of many services in the cloud environment. Service composition awareness of Quality of Service (QoS) is a significant challenge in CC. A single service in the cloud environment cann...
In the complex environment of the IoT (Internet of Things), the amount of information available is enormous and the number of users also increases at a blistering pace. With a huge number of users, e-commerce marketing strategies in the IoT become ex...
Background and objectives: The urban underground complex integrates comprehensive architecture and subterranean space, presenting physical and psychological complexities. To mitigate the negative experiences associated with this complexity, we need t...
Three-dimensional (3D) medical images are used for diagnosis and in surgical operation planning. Computer-assisted surgical simulations (CASS) are essential for complex surgical procedures that are often performed in an interdisciplinary manner. Trad...
In this article, a computationally-efficient approach is presented for Bit Error Rate (BER) calculations in multi-user Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) frequency selective fading environments, operating in spatial multiplexing transmission mode....
In this paper, we address the application of the flying Drone Base Stations (DBS) in order to improve the network performance. Given the high degrees of freedom of a DBS, it can change its position and adapt its trajectory according to the users move...
In complex environments, users frequently need to manage multiple tasks simultaneously, which poses significant challenges for user interface design. For instance, when driving, users must maintain continuous visual attention on the road ahead while...
Pinching-antenna systems (PASSs) offer a low-complexity and reconfigurable solution for near-field downlink communications by deploying multiple radiating elements along a single waveguide. Existing studies mainly assume simplified propagation condit...
User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) design play a critical role in shaping human interaction with digital systems, particularly in professional environments where accuracy, safety, and efficiency are essential. Poor visual design increases c...
This study introduces a mobile application designed to assist visually impaired persons (VIPs) in navigating complex environments, such as supermarkets. Recent assistive tools often identify objects in isolation without providing contextual awareness...
Targeting the issues of slow speed and inadequate precision of optimal solution calculation for multi-user detection in complex noise environments, this paper proposes a multi-user detection algorithm based on a Hybrid Cheetah Optimizer (HCO). The al...
Virtual Geographic Environment Cognition is the attempt to understand the human cognition of surface features, geographic processes, and human behaviour, as well as their relationships in the real world. From the perspective of human cognition behavi...
In many parts of the world including the western United States, the allocation of water is governed by complex water laws that dictate who receives water, how much they receive, and when. Because these rules are generally based on the seniority of wa...
This work proposes a new interface for the teleoperation of mobile robots based on virtual reality that allows a natural and intuitive interaction and cooperation between the human and the robot, which is useful for many situations, such as inspectio...
The inclusion of usability heuristics into the metaverse is aimed at solving the unique issues raised by virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) environments. This research points out the usability challenges of metaverse...
Complex public buildings, such as airports, use various systems to guide people to a certain destination. Such approaches are usually implemented by showing a floor plan that has guiding signs or color coded lines on the floor. With a technology that...
The integration of artificial intelligence into daily life significantly enhances the autonomy and quality of life of visually impaired individuals. This paper introduces the Visual Impairment Spatial Awareness (VISA) system, designed to holistically...
Making time-critical decisions with serious consequences is a daily aspect of work environments. To support the process of finding optimal actions, data-driven approaches are increasingly being used. The most advanced form of data-driven analytics is...
With recent advancements in digital environments, user authentication is becoming increasingly important. Traditional authentication methods such as passwords and PINs suffer from inherent limitations, including vulnerability to theft, guessing, and...
Practice and Research Optimization Environment in Python (PyPROE) is a GUI-based, integrated framework designed to improve the user experience in both learning and research on engineering design optimization. Traditional optimization programs require...
Because the Internet of things (IoT) and fog computing are prevalent, an efficient resource consolidation scheme in nanoscale computing environments is urgently needed. In nanoscale environments, a great many small devices collaborate to achieve a pr...
Department store interiors are complex public interior environments in which circulation, wayfinding, visual perception, sensory comfort, and staff interaction operate simultaneously. Although accessibility is increasingly discussed in built environm...
Within the 6G vision, the future of mobile communication networks is expected to become more complex, heterogeneous, and characterized by denser deployments with a myriad of users in an ever-more dynamic environment. There is an increasing intent to...
With the growing use of digital technologies and interactive games, there is rising interest in how people respond to challenges, stress, and decision-making in virtual environments. Studying human behavior in such settings helps to improve design, t...
Virtual reality is increasingly used for tasks such as work and education. Thus, rendering scenarios that do not interfere with such goals and deplete user experience are becoming progressively more relevant. We present a physiologically adaptive sys...
The bipartite polarization problem is an optimization problem where the goal is to find the highest polarized bipartition on a weighted and labeled graph that represents a debate developed through some social network, where nodes represent user&rsquo...
The extended reality (XR) environment demands high-performance computing and data processing capabilities, while requiring continuous technological development to enable a real-time integration between the physical and virtual worlds for user interac...
Crowdsensing utilizes a range of sensing resources and participants, including mobile device sensors, to achieve collaborative sensing and information fusion. This enables it to handle complex social sensing tasks and provide more intelligent and rea...
The increasing complexity shown in Smart Environments, together with the spread of social networks, is increasingly moving the role of users from simple information and services consumers to actual producers. In this work, we focus on security issues...
While Local Differential Privacy (LDP) offers strong privacy guarantees for IoT data collection, users often struggle to understand its implications and control their privacy settings. This paper presents a user-centric approach to implementing LDP i...
For the localization of multiple users, Bluetooth data from the smartphone is able to complement Wi-Fi-based methods with additional information, by providing an approximation of the relative distances between users. In practice, both positions provi...
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IoT (Internet of Things)-enabled products are increasingly used by consumers and continuously propagate in daily life. Billions of networked objects not only increase the complexity of development but also raise user interaction and adaptation to ind...
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