Since the lack of a specific design method, guidance and user participation in the product innovation design of digital twins, a product innovation design process of a user requirement-driven digital twin combined with flow function analysis is propo...
In the field of cultural architecture design, the deep impact mechanisms of wooden material design perception on users’ psychological experiences have not yet been fully elucidated. The interior environmental design of concert halls, as venues...
Renewable energy sources (RESs) such as photovoltaic (PV) and fuel cells (FCs) introduce variability that complicates reliable, loss-aware operation of distributed power-flow systems (DPFSs) in smart homes. Frequent charge/discharge cycling of energy...
In this study, we investigated the effectiveness of a method to quantify the overall product usability using an expert review. The expert review involved a general-purpose task flow-based usability checklist that provided a single quantitative usabil...
With the continuous deepening of green building concepts and the sustained advancement of research on health-oriented design, increasing attention has been paid to the impact of architectural space on users’ psychological perception and behavio...
Cultural ecosystem services (CESs) reflect the interaction between ecosystems and human well-being. Owing to constraints in data availability and existing methodological limitations, deriving information from non-material ecosystem attributes was ina...
16 April 2022
Social media has triggered an increase in fake news spread about different aspects of modern lives, society, politics, societal changes, etc., and has also affected companies’ reputation and brands’ trust. Therefore, this paper is aimed a...
Optimal user experience or flow is a theory with great impact on user experience. Promoting flow has become a competitive advantage for interactive systems, including rehabilitation. This can be achieved through an engaging interface that provides a...
1 July 2025
Amid the rapid growth of social media and live streaming platforms, streamers, who serve as a crucial link between products and users, have garnered significant attention from both academia and industry. This study explores the impact of the streamer...
Forecasting user flows on transportation networks is a fundamental task for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITSs). Indeed, most control and management strategies on transportation systems are based on the knowledge of user flows. For implementing ITS...
Limited by the influence of network topology and other factors, the theory of carbon emission flow is unreasonable in the allocation of carbon responsibility on the user side, which leads to the low enthusiasm of users to respond to emission mitigati...
Sustainable power-system operation requires carbon-reduction strategies that are emission-effective, physically deliverable, economically feasible, and compatible with user-side decarbonization claims. As Scope 2 carbon accounting increasingly emphas...
As digital transformation accelerates, artificial intelligence (AI) has become a central driver of social media ecosystems. Drawing on Uses and Gratifications Theory (UGT) and Consumer–Brand Relationship Theory, this study employs a quantitativ...
1 March 2021
Mobile learning applications enable people to spend fragmented time to improve their knowledge and competitiveness. Enterprises aim to design innovative applications and create a new learning mode for the public, and the open innovation strategies ma...
The COVID-19 spread abruptly changed the fruition of indoor environments, where necessary adaptive measures have since been implemented. Buildings open to the public were suddenly equipped with physical devices aiming to encourage users’ approp...
This paper studies travelers’ context-dependent route choice behavior in a risky trafficnetwork from a long-term perspective, focusing on the effect of travelers’ salience characteristics. In particular, a flow-dependent salience theory i...
The use of virtual reality (VR) has made significant advancements, and now it is widely used across a range of applications. However, consumers’ capacity to fully enjoy VR experiences continues to be limited by a chronic problem known as cybers...
Industrial metaverse systems enable shared, immersive environments for coordinating complex, data-intensive industrial workflows; however, ensuring effective and usable interaction remains a key barrier to professional adoption. This study examines i...
Previous studies on virtual soap bubbles mainly focused on methods for visualizing the physical and geometrical properties of soap bubbles and paid little attention to the possible ways to enhance the interaction between the simulation and the user....
Millions of individuals rely on urban transportation every day to travel inside cities. However, it is not clear how route parameters (e.g., traffic conditions, waiting times) influence users when selecting a particular route option for their trips....
With the continuous depletion of fossil fuels, all countries attach importance to clean and sustainable development. The real-time state monitoring of multiphase flows is vital for enhancing hydropower station energy conversion. However, the material...
To address the challenges of facility–demand mismatch, aggravated congestion, and imbalanced benefit distribution caused by the interdependence between dynamic wireless charging systems (DWCS) and transportation networks, this study proposes an...
Neurofeedback (NF) is a brain–computer interface in which users can learn to modulate their own brain activation while receiving real-time feedback thereof. To increase motivation and adherence to training, virtual reality has recently been use...
The increasing demand for accessible and efficient machine learning solutions has led to the development of the Adaptive Learning Framework (ALF) for multi-class, single-label image classification. Unlike existing low-code tools, ALF integrates multi...
The liquid film formed around the inner walls of a small horizontal circular pipe often exhibits non-uniform distributions circumferentially, where the film is thinner at the top surface than the bottom one. Even with this known phenomenon, the probl...
The pressure on freshwater resources is leading to diminishing flows in some of the critical river systems across the globe. India is no exception, and this is mainly because of water withdrawal for irrigation, which is often to the tune of 70% to 80...
This article proposes a complex approach to the phenomenon known in the literature as the consumption of user-generated multimedia content (UGMC) in the context of the effects generated by the pandemic on the consumption of tourist services. Thus, it...
28 October 2020
Although the increasing mobile technology applies in our daily lives, there remain questions that clearly illustrate the experience inspired by the mobile technology environment. It is theoretically and practically meaningful to systematically reveal...
A multitude of challenges comes into play when attempting to design (and evaluate) an interactive digital storytelling experience for use by visitors in a museum. This paper reports on the evaluation of the prototype mobile-based storytelling “...
2 May 2025
Short video applications have gained increasing prominence as pivotal channels for information acquisition and knowledge dissemination, capturing the attention of scholars. Despite the increasing interest in this area, a general investigation of the...
Although numerous studies have been conducted to realize ideal point-of-care testing (POCT), the development of a user-friendly and user-independent power-free microfluidic platform is still a challenge. Among various methods, the finger-actuation me...
Effective and sustainable water resource management requires flexibility and adaptation to local contexts. Our study analyzes the emergence and evolution of local water self-governing associations, reviewing how their struggles and conflicts, both wi...
People are increasingly seeking complex health information online. However, how they access this information and how influential it is on their health choices remains poorly understood. Google Analytics (GA) is a widely used web analytics tool and it...
This paper presents a user-friendly tool—FLoW1D (One-Dimensional Water Flow)—for the estimation of parameters that characterize the unsaturated moisture transfer in porous building materials. FLoW1D has been developed in Visual Basic for...
Space syntax is utilized to model flows through open and closed built environments, which enables project innovation by rethinking the design of spaces on a global scale with better flow quality. Therefore, studies focused on spatial syntax, when rel...
The transparent appearance of fish embryos provides an excellent assessment feature for observing cardiovascular function in vivo. Previously, methods to conduct vascular function assessment were based on measuring blood-flow velocity using third-par...
Particles exhibiting fluorescence after Nile Red staining have been increasingly investigated in human biological samples in the context of microplastic exposure, but their clinical relevance remains unclear. In this study, Nile Red-positive micropar...
Emergency preparedness training in organizations frequently involves simple evacuation drills triggered by fire alarms, limiting the opportunities for broader skill development. Digital technologies, particularly virtual reality (VR), offer promising...
Although monetization has been widely discussed in digital games, less attention has been paid to how it is discussed in narrative-centered Interactive Full-Motion Video (FMV) Games, where user experience depends heavily on continuity, completeness,...
The rapid growth of data traffic due to the demands of new services and applications poses new challenges to the wireless network. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be a solution to support wireless networks during congestion, especially in scenari...
In July 2020, this journal published “A User-Friendly Tool to Characterize the Moisture Transfer in Porous Building Materials: FLoW1D”. That article presents and applies a forward-Euler-based tool, implemented in Visual Basic for Applicat...
Finite element (FE) simulations have been effective in simulating thermomechanical forming processes, yet challenges arise when applying them to new materials due to nonlinear behaviors. To address this, machine learning techniques and artificial neu...
The project, developed by a team of Una Quantum, consists of the digital renovation of the Archaeological Civic Museum of the Municipality of Collelongo (AQ) through the realisation of its website. The action plan aimed to highlight the essential rol...
It is difficult for visually impaired individuals to recognize escalators in everyday environments. If the individuals ride on escalators in the wrong direction, they will stumble on the steps. This paper proposes a novel method to assist visually im...
Traffic simulation is essential for evaluating transportation policies, infrastructure changes, and mixed traffic scenarios with human-driven and autonomous vehicles, yet its reliability critically depends on accurate calibration of origin–dest...
The great demand for water resources from the Zarqa River Basin (ZRB) has resulted in a base-flow reduction of the River from 5 m3/s to less than 1 m3/s. This paper aims to predict Curve Numbers (CNs) as a baseline scenario and propose restoration sc...
The passenger flow assignment in the rail transit network is the basis for determining the passenger spatiotemporal distribution and train operation organization plan. In previous studies, the passenger flow assignment problem mainly focused on lines...
Machine Learning (ML) has gained prominence and has tremendous applications in fields like medicine, biology, geography and astrophysics, to name a few. Arguably, in such areas, it is used by domain experts, who are not necessarily skilled-programmer...
A new state parameter-based user-subroutine for finite-element software packages, which can be used to simulate microstructure-dependent stress–strain relations, is presented. Well-established precipitation kinetics, strain hardening and streng...
In recent years, residential users have begun to be equipped with micro-CHP (combined heat and power) generation technologies with the aim of decreasing primary energy consumption and reducing environmental impact. In these systems, the prime mover s...
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