Composing coherent and structured music is one of the main challenges in symbolic music generation. Our research aims to propose a user-centric framework design that promotes a collaborative environment between users and knowledge agents. The primary...
Food waste management remains a paramount issue in the field of social innovation. While government-led public recycling measures are important, the untapped role of residents in food waste management at the household level also demands attention. Th...
In industrial environments, providing intuitive spatial information via 3D maps is essential for maximizing the efficiency of teleoperation. However, existing SLAM algorithms generating 3D maps predominantly focus on improving robot localization accu...
The increasing adoption of electric vehicles offers a way to combat the harmful impacts of climate change and to improve city living standards. Yet limited access to and lack of consistency among electric vehicle charging stations present obstacles f...
In modern society, people are heavily reliant on information available online through various channels, such as websites, social media, and web portals. Examples include searching for product prices, news, weather, and jobs. This paper focuses on an...
Social sciences and humanities (SSH) research is divided across a wide array of disciplines, sub-disciplines and languages. While this specialization makes it possible to investigate the extensive variety of SSH topics, it also leads to a fragmentati...
The dynamics of an environmental decision-making context can be complicated. The use of decision support tools can help better facilitate restoring and maintaining ecosystems that provide environmental benefits (ecosystem services) to people. Althoug...
This paper analyzes for the first time how the Beckmann distribution can be used to characterize the random variable that represents the envelope of the effective channel gain experienced by the k-th user equipment (UE) of a user-centric (UC) cell-fr...
This paper aims to propose a conceptual model to create and select smart home conceptions from the user-centric and sustainable perspective, using the Design Thinking approach. Although considerable research has been devoted to smart homes in the las...
Data generated by Internet of Things devices enable the design of new business models and services, improving user experience and satisfaction. This data also serve as an essential information source for many fields, including disaster management, bi...
This paper presents a user-centred design method for developing prototype housing designs in the Paipe community of Abuja, Nigeria, addressing the challenges posed by rapid urbanisation in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). UCD is a qualitativ...
With the increased use of geospatial datasets across heterogeneous user groups and domains, assessing fitness-for-use is emerging as an essential task. Users are presented with an increasing choice of data from various portals, repositories, and clea...
Modern Public Safety Networks (PSNs) are assisted by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to provide a resilient communication paradigm during catastrophic events. In this context, we propose a distributed user-centric risk-aware resource management frame...
Ultra dense networks (UDN) are identified as one of the key enablers for 5G, since they can provide an ultra high spectral reuse factor exploiting proximal transmissions. By densifying the network infrastructure equipment, it is highly possible that...
In the climate change era, forest managers are challenged to use innovative tools to encourage a sustained provision of goods and services. Many decision support tools (DSTs), developed to address global changes in forest management practices, reflec...
Metabolomics has advanced to an extent where it is desired to standardize and compare data across individual studies. While past work in standardization has focused on data acquisition, data processing, and data storage aspects, metabolomics database...
The rapid advancement of intelligent technologies, including sensing devices, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things, has significantly accelerated the progress in industrial technology, particularly within the medical enterprise sector....
This paper presents a novel approach to address the challenges of self-adaptive privacy in cloud computing environments (CCE). Under the Cloud-InSPiRe project, the aim is to provide an interdisciplinary framework and a beta-version tool for self-adap...
In this survey paper, we focus on smart interactive technologies and providing a picture of the current state of the art, exploring the way new discoveries and recent technologies changed workers’ operations and activities on the factory floor....
Recently, the concept of cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) has been implemented in low-Earth-orbit (LEO) constellations to enhance energy efficiency. However, signal distortion caused by nonlinear power amplifiers (NPAs) sig...
The appeal of e-Government users to retain control over their personal information, while making use of advanced governmental electronic services through interconnected and interoperable deployments, can be assisted by the incorporation of privacy po...
Recommender systems are widely used in various fields, such as e-commerce, entertainment, and education, to provide personalized recommendations to users based on their preferences and/or behavior. Τhis paper presents a novel approach to providin...
BlenderBot 2.0 represents a significant advancement in open-domain chatbots by incorporating real-time information and retaining user information across multiple sessions through an internet search module. Despite its innovations, there are still are...
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...
This study investigates the integration of Green Building Technologies and Solutions within UAEU’s Maqam Campus, focusing on assessing sustainable design effectiveness. Using a mixed-method approach, the research comprehensively evaluates indoo...
Specifications such as SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect and Mobile Connect are essential for solving identification, authentication and authorisation in contexts such as mobile apps, social networks, e-commerce, cloud computing or the Internet of Things....
22 March 2020
Lectures are the most commonly used training method but may not be effective in communicating safety information among migrant workers because of language and cultural barriers. The comprehension of safety information is particularly urgent in highly...
5 May 2022
The current pandemic is accelerating the wide-spreading popularity of digital tourism. Given that technology innovation has broadened the horizon of tourist experiences to the realm of virtual environments, this study aims to (re)conceptualize travel...
With the development of service-based and cloud-based architectures, the number of web services is rapidly increasing, and when users use these services, they expect reliability, security, and performance. However, existing trust evaluation approache...
Patient decontamination is the act of removing or neutralising hazardous substances from an affected individual. To ensure adequate emergency preparedness, regulations require hospitals to train personnel in decontamination procedures regularly. To s...
Innovation districts are widely known as an effective land use type for fostering and sustaining knowledge and innovation economy growth in cities. Knowledge workers and the public are among the main stakeholders and key drivers for the growth of inn...
Industry 4.0 is pushing forward the need for symbiotic interactions between physical and virtual entities of production environments to realize increasingly flexible and customizable production processes. This holds especially for human–robot c...
Smart building is the result of the penetration of information technology and control technology into traditional buildings, and is the future development direction of buildings. User-centric building smart design can achieve a sustainable life, and...
Air quality monitoring is a critical aspect of urban management. While poor air quality negatively impacts public health and well-being, implementing effective monitoring systems often involves significant costs. This paper addresses the optimization...
This study presents a data-driven, multi-objective optimization framework for user-centric product form design, integrating affective response modeling with coupled constraint satisfaction. Initially, morphological analysis and aesthetic evaluation a...
Despite the growing use of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in energy time-series forecasting, a systematic evaluation of explanation quality remains limited. This systematic review analyzes 50 peer-reviewed studies (2020–2025) applyin...
Technological advances have facilitated the move from market-centric to user-centric commerce by enabling the progress towards S-Commerce from E-Commerce. Technologically advanced S-Commerce platforms have enabled collaborative commerce, which has le...
We describe the work on infusion of emotion into a limited-task autonomous spoken conversational agent situated in the domestic environment, using a need-inspired task-independent emotion model (NEMO). In order to demonstrate the generation of affect...
The security of financial messaging systems is critical to maintaining trust in digital financial platforms. Despite advances in cryptography, many contemporary systems remain vulnerable to channel-based and cryptographic threats, including eavesdrop...
The paper presents a user-centric methodology in order to design successful mobile health (mHealth) applications. In addition to the theoretical background, such an example is presented with an application targeting chronic pain. The pain domain was...
Background: The widespread adoption of mobile devices by adolescents underscores the potential to harness these tools to instill healthy habits into their daily lives. An exemplary manifestation of this initiative is the Healthy Jeart app, crafted wi...
This article conducts a thorough comparative analysis of public transport systems in Curitiba and Lisbon, focusing on cost-efficiency and structural performance from the user’s viewpoint. Curitiba is noted for pioneering the BRT model in the 19...
This study introduces FRIDA, a novel framework that integrates Requirements Engineering (RE) and DevOps practices into Robotic Process Automation (RPA), with a focus on optimizing human–computer interaction (HCI). The framework was designed usi...
The optimization of land development requires a deep understanding of end-user expectations to ensure that new residential environments are both market-responsive and socially sustainable. This paper presents a novel prioritization-based technique fo...
Due to the environmental impacts of greenhouse gas emissions from traditional combustion vehicles, governments worldwide are encouraging the transition to electric vehicles (EVs). However, as EV use increases, user-related charging challenges have be...
Consumer behavior is complex and is difficult to represent in traditional economic theories of decision-making. This paper focuses on the development of an agent-based approach to analyze people’s behavior in consuming electricity using a behavioral...
Wi-Fi networks face increasing pressure due to the rapid growth in the number of connected devices, the diversity of applications, and rising user expectations. Managing quality of service (QoS) in such complex environments requires a holistic approa...
Cell-free large-scale multi-user MIMO is a promising technology for the 5G-and-beyond mobile communication networks. Scalable signal processing is the key challenge in achieving the benefits of cell-free systems. This study examines a distributed app...
In contemporary data-driven economies, data has become a valuable digital asset that is eligible for trading and monetization. Peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplaces play a crucial role in establishing direct connections between data providers and consumers...
3D modeling and reconstruction are critical to creating immersive XR experiences, providing realistic virtual environments, objects, and interactions that increase user engagement and enable new forms of content manipulation. Today, 3D data can be ea...
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