Gamified recommender systems, which mix game design with recommendation frameworks, are a new way to increase user involvement and satisfaction. Even though they have a lot of potential, there has not been any systematic research on how their design...
Future 6G networks are expected to utilize Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (M-MIMO) and follow a user-centric cell-free (UCCF) architecture. In a UCCF M-MIMO network, the user can be potentially served by multiple surrounding Radio Units (RUs)...
Users with limited cooking experience must simultaneously consider multiple factors, including available ingredients, cooking time, cooking equipment, health conditions, personal preferences, and practical feasibility. Therefore, simple keyword-based...
This study presents the development and evaluation of an immersive virtual reality (VR) application designed for lathe operation training. The VR application, built using Unity for Oculus Rift headsets, aims to simulate a realistic lathe machining ex...
The architectural design of healthcare institutions impacts patient experience and health outcomes. Facing challenges like demographic aging and evolving treatments, this study reviewed fourteen key publications on healthcare architecture. The insigh...
This study proposes a structured, replicable, multimethod framework for evaluating the usability of institutional information systems serving heterogeneous user groups. It addresses the limited integration of expectation–satisfaction analysis,...
1 August 2009
Establishing an acceptable user-centred electronic health record (EHR) system is a challenging task for healthcare providers due to the need for such systems to meet the requirements of its user population. Concerned nurses are the main end-users of...
When processing I/O requests, the current Linux kernel does not adequately consider the urgency of user-centric tasks closely related to user experience. To solve this critical problem, we developed a practical method in this study to enhance user ex...
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...
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...
Life cycle background databases (LCBDs) determine the credibility and reproducibility of life cycle assessment (LCA) results. However, insufficient transparency in databases has long been a critical issue affecting the reliability of LCA applications...
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...
This study critically examines the trustworthiness of widely used AI applications, focusing on their integration into daily life, often without users fully understanding the risks or how these threats might affect them. As AI apps become more accessi...
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....
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...
This study examines the effectiveness of an innovative solar-electric paddy winnowing machine titled “Synergy of Solar and Electric Power”. Conducted in the agricultural hubs of Barangay Tagbongabong and Barangay Lemon in the Philippines,...
The increasing use of AI systems for face, object, action, scene, and emotion recognition raises significant privacy risks, particularly when processing Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Current privacy-preserving methods lack adaptability t...
5 March 2023
User-based evaluation by end users is an essential step in designing useful interfaces. Inspection methods can offer an alternate approach when end-user recruitment is problematic. A Learning Designers’ usability scholarship could offer usabili...
This paper advances user-centric Artificial Intelligence (AI) frameworks for reliability in fifth-generation and beyond (B5G) networks by examining their use in high-demand services such as video streaming. The proposed framework can leverage multi-l...
This study explores the architectural framework of a value-driven token economy on a blockchain content platform and critically evaluates the relationship between blockchain’s decentralization and sustainable economic practices. The existing li...
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 manuscript analyzes the influence of display parameters and display devices over the spatial skills of the users in virtual reality environments. For this, the authors of this manuscript developed a virtual reality application which tests the sp...
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...
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...
Artificial Intelligence Chatbots based on Large Language Models are becoming important cornerstones in education, professional, and personal contexts. Users frequently disclose sensitive information without the necessary awareness of how their data i...
Video-centric applications have seen significant growth in recent years with HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) becoming a widely adopted method for video delivery. Recently, low-latency (LL) adaptive bitrate (ABR) algorithms have recently been proposed t...
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 growing availability of mobile devices has lead to an arising development of smart cities services that share a huge amount of (personal) information and data. Without accurate and verified management, they could become severe back-doors for secu...
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...
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...
User interface design patterns are acknowledged as a standard solution to recurring design problems. The heterogeneity of existing design patterns makes the selection of relevant ones difficult. To tackle these concerns, the current work contributes...
17 December 2013
Homecare systems for elderly people are becoming increasingly important due to both economic reasons as well as patients’ preferences. Sensor-based surveillance technologies are an expected future trend, but research so far has devoted little attenti...
As user-centric innovation has recently emerged as a successful way of developing new products, services, and concepts, it is worth considering the perspectives of potential technology users during R&D project selection processes. Nevertheless, l...
This work addresses the task allocation problem in spatial crowdsensing with altruistic participation, tackling challenges like declining engagement and user fatigue from task overload. Unlike typical models relying on financial incentives, this cont...
This paper presents the mHealth Predictive Outbreak for COVID-19 (mPOC) framework, an autonomous platform based on wearable Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices for outbreak prediction and monitoring. It utilizes real-time physiological and envi...
HBIM is the application of BIM, a digital information management process, to cultural heritage (CH) assets. Despite the numerous potential benefits posed by the adoption of HBIM, the current practice is limited by a lack of consideration of the end u...
From an extensive search of papers related to the comparison of Global Digital Elevation Models (hereinafter GDEMs), an analysis is carried out that aims to answer several questions such as: Which GDEMs have been compared? Where have the comparisons...
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...
Industrial heritage plays a pivotal role in preserving local culture and preventing urban homogenization. Although the reuse of industrial heritage sites has been underway in China for nearly 30 years, designers often focus on heritage value itself w...
With the large-scale deployment of smart meters worldwide, research in non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) has seen a significant rise due to its dual use of real-time monitoring of end-user appliances and user-centric feedback of power consumption...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading is gaining attention as a technology to effectively handle already existing distributed energy resources (DER). In order to manage a large number of DER, it is necessary to increase the number of P2P energy trading p...
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...
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...
Background: Hearing impairment affects a significant portion of the global population. The development of assistive technologies, particularly wearable devices, has been pivotal in mitigating these challenges. Methods: We present a systematic literat...
Architectural elements—such as shapes, colors, and lighting—significantly influence how users emotionally respond to spaces. This study addresses the challenge of capturing unconscious and rapid emotional responses by employing a 32-chann...
The intense diversity of the Next-Generation Networking environments like 6G and the forthcoming deployment of immersive applications with varied user-specific requirements transform the efficient allocation of resources into a real challenge. Tradit...
2 November 2022
Living Labs (LL) are a novel and potentially robust way of addressing real-life health challenges, especially within the dementia field. Generally, LLs focus on co-creating through implementing the quadruple helix partnership as a user-centric approa...
In the era of smart tourism, providing seamless and personalized experiences has become significant for enhancing user satisfaction and engagement. This paper presents a novel fuzzy logic-based application system designed to enhance personalization i...
A massive amount of sensitive personal data is being collected and used by scientists, businesses, and governments. This has led to unprecedented threats to privacy rights and the security of personal data. There are few solutions that empower indivi...
Post-occupancy evaluations are common tools used to periodically assess Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) in tertiary buildings. Although the large amount of data collected from surveys contain valuable information, the influence of building charact...
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