Open Source Software (OSS) communities are often international, bringing together people from diverse regions with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. National user groups can bolster these international communities by convening local even...
Governments around the world are increasingly devolving authority for forest management to the local level in an attempt to strengthen the management of national forests. Community forestry programs are recognized as providing a range of economic and...
Recently, advancements in machine-learning technology have enabled platforms such as short video applications and e-commerce websites to accurately predict user behavior and cater to their interests. However, the limited nature of user data may compr...
Despite high expectations for Fintech growth, its real-world expansion has fallen short due to its inherent complexity. Although Fintech is innovative, its multidimensional nature has made it difficult for companies to develop effective, tailored sol...
Many companies are facing the task for radical innovations—totally new concepts and ideas for products and services, which are successful at the market. One major factor for success is a positive user experience. Thus, design teams need, and ar...
(1) Background: The COVID-19 epidemic is still global and no specific drug has been developed for COVID-19. Vaccination can both prevent infection and limit the spread of the epidemic. Eliminating hesitation to the COVID-19 vaccine and achieving earl...
Short-term load forecasting of distributed user groups is crucial for the efficient operation of electricity markets, but existing methods mainly rely on intra-group consistency while neglecting inter-group correlations, which limits the utilization...
The community forests (CF) in Nepal, facilitated by Community Forest User Groups (CFUGs), is widely recognized as an effective model of community-based forest management. Despite this recognition, there is a notable lack of comprehensive studies asse...
Household room air conditioners (RACs) are widely used in residential buildings to maintain an indoor thermal climate in China’s hot summer and cold winter (HSCW) zone. The aggregate utilization of RACs in a region has a great impact on regiona...
Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technology allows multiple users to use the same time-frequency resource to send signals, which can improve spectral efficiency and throughput. We study the problems of user grouping and power allocation in the d...
How to find a user’s interest from similar users a fundamental research problems in socialized recommender systems. Despite significant advances, there exists diversity loss for the majority of recommender systems. With this paper, for expandin...
The costs of eye-tracking technologies steadily decrease. This allows research institutions to obtain multiple eye-tracking devices. Already, several multiple eye-tracker laboratories have been established. Researchers begin to recognize the subfield...
User experience with intuitive and flexible digital platforms can be enjoyable and satisfying. A strategy to deliver such an experience is to place the users at the center of the design process and analyze their beliefs and perceptions to add appropr...
Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) increases awareness on user energy usage patterns. In this paper, an efficient and highly accurate NILM method is proposed featuring condensed representation, super-state and fusion of two deep learning based mode...
Group preferences are crucial for Inspirational Solutions of Automotive Design (ISAD). However, sparse individual purchase behavior hinders the identification of group preferences. Therefore, a novel inspiration recommendation (IR) system based on mu...
The skyrocketing growth in the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has posed a huge traffic demand for fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks and beyond. In-band full-duplex (IBFD), which is theoretically expected to double the spectral effic...
The paper presents the results of the study on participative mapping of landscape values and conflicts and a subsequent interpretation of the indicated localities from respondents’ point of view. The study focused on younger groups of landscape...
Future service robots mass-produced for practical applications may benefit from having personalities. To engineer robot personalities in significant quantities for practical applications, we need first to identify the personality dimensions on which...
3 November 2025
We examine how gamification attributes shape user preferences for metaverse platforms and how these relationships vary across age groups. Using rank-ordered logit on 304 metaverse users from the Korean Media Panel Survey, we code platform features in...
In recent years, live video streaming platforms for video games have been gaining popularity. These types of services, which enable anyone to broadcast and consume live content, are revolutionising the current video game landscape. Users approach the...
Adopting a need-based approach can help companies to create products and services that are preferred by their customers and improve their well-being, thus providing a competitive advantage. To put need-based designs into practice, it would be interes...
1 May 2018
As the number of Internet users grows rapidly, the way users access the Internet and their behavior change. This study focuses on Internet user typology, which is an area that has not been recently examined. The research explores whether the Internet...
This survey reviews the two most prominent group-oriented anonymous signature schemes and analyzes the existing approaches for their problem: balancing anonymity against traceability. Group signatures and ring signatures are the two leading competiti...
The main question of this paper is what factors influence willingness to participate in a smartphone-application-based data collection where participants both fill out a questionnaire and let the app collect data on their smartphone usage. Passive di...
In public use of a large display, it is a usual phenomenon that multiple users individually participate in respective tasks on a common device. Previous studies have categorized such activity as independent interaction that involves little group enga...
Discussions and practices aimed at improving the learning environment of public school facilities built in the 1990s to fit the current century are ongoing. There have been improvements to the school environment in Korea for approximately a decade th...
Location-based social networking services have attracted great interest with the growth of smart mobile devices. Recommending locations for users based on their preferences is an important task for location-based social networks (LBSNs). Since human...
Multi-access edge computing (MEC) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) are regarded as promising technologies to improve the computation capability and offloading efficiency of mobile devices in the sixth-generation (6G) mobile system. This pape...
Background: Recent advances in the design of blockchain-based personal data sharing platforms bring the benefit of empowering users with more control and privacy-preserving measures in sharing data products. However, so far very little is known about...
[Background] Virtual reality (VR) technology can provide unique immersive experiences for group users, and especially for analytics tasks with visual information in learning. Providing a shared control/view may improve the task performance and enhanc...
In recent years, there has been a sharp increase in the number of elderly people in South Korea; this has led to rising costs and concerns on the quality of physical therapy treatment involving rehabilitation robotic devices. Therefore, the governmen...
Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) provides higher spectral efficiency and access to more users than orthogonal multiple access. However, the issue of resource allocation in NOMA is dynamic and produces a high computation burden when using traditi...
Data sharing has dramatically promoted the efficient use of data resources. The target sharing of confidential data is increasingly becoming urgent for enterprises or organizations to solve business problems, such as data sharing between group users...
Group chat socialization is increasingly central to online activities, yet design strategies to enhance this experience remain underexplored. This study builds on the Stimuli–Organism–Response (SOR) framework to examine how usability, cha...
Privacy must be preserved when working with client data in machine learning. Federated learning (FL) provides a way to preserve user data privacy by aggregating locally trained models without sharing the user data. Still, the privacy of user identity...
Public transportation (PT) service quality is recognized as a cornerstone of infrastructure development in many countries. Understanding the satisfaction level of public transport users towards provided service quality is vital. However, there is sti...
The introduction and implementation of the REDD+ (Reduced emission from the deforestation and forest degradation) program has resulted in an investigation of forest carbon from a local to global scale. Due to being the most productive terrestrial eco...
Cadastral information and land administration systems are central to effective land markets, land use and sustainable development. This paper focuses on one aspect of land administration dynamism: the changing uses of cadastral information. We follow...
Introduction: Adolescence is a developmental stage that often coincides with increasing sleep problems. Focus groups were conducted to inform development of an adolescent eHealth sleep intervention by exploring opinions about (1) healthy sleep practi...
In this paper, we considered uplink communication, focusing on the improvement of spectral efficiency (SE) for millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output non-orthogonal multiple access (MIMO-NOMA) systems. Firstly, we proposed an adaptiv...
Massive MIMO is one of the leading technologies for connecting very large numbers of energy-constrained nodes, as it offers both extensive spatial multiplexing and large array gain. A challenge resides in partitioning the many nodes into groups that...
Subscription-based news platforms (such as “Apple News+” or “Readly”) that bundle content from different publishers into one comprehensive package and offer it to media users at a fixed monthly rate are a new way of accessing...
Nepal’s Community Forestry (CF) process has implied the devolution of powers to collect, retain, and redistribute forest revenue from community forests products. This study contributes to our knowledge about these important aspects of CF by pre...
Visual learning analytics (VLA) tools and technologies enable the meaningful exchange of information between educational data and teachers. This allows teachers to create meaningful groups of students based on possible collaboration and productive di...
A transport business that has reached financial sustainability is one that is providing a service at a price that not only covers its costs but also creates a profit for upcoming contingencies. A focus on rail infrastructure financial sustainability...
28 November 2021
Using low-cost portable air quality (AQ) monitoring devices is a growing trend in personal exposure studies, enabling a higher spatio-temporal resolution and identifying acute exposure to high concentrations. Comprehension of the results by participa...
To achieve Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7), it is essential to detect the spatiotemporal patterns of electricity consumption, particularly the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of consumers. This is also crucial for rational energy planning and mana...
Spatial group recommendation refers to suggesting places to a given set of users. In a group recommender system, members of a group should have similar preferences in order to increase the level of satisfaction. Location-based social networks (LBSNs)...
With the quick evolution of mobile apps and trip guidance technologies, a trip recommender that recommends sequential points of interest (POIs) to travelers has emerged and recently received popularity. Compared to other outing recommenders, which su...
23 June 2014
The research reported in this paper addresses the relationship between quality of open space and health related lifestyle in urban residential areas. The research was performed in the residential developments in Ljubljana, Slovenia, dating from the t...
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