By Phan Cong Vinh,Vangalur Alagar
the completely refereed court cases of the 4th foreign convention on
Context-Aware platforms and purposes, ICCASA 2015, held in Vung Tau, Vietnam,
in November 2015. The forty four revised complete papers awarded have been conscientiously selected
and reviewed from over a hundred submissions. The papers disguise a large spectrum of
issues within the region of context-aware structures (CAS) and context-based
recommendation systems.
CAS is characterised by way of its self- aspects reminiscent of self-organization, self-configuration,
self-healing, self-optimization, self-protection and so forth whose context awareness
used to dynamically keep an eye on computing and networking services. The overall
goal of CAS is to achieve nature-inspired autonomic structures which could deal with themselves
without direct human interventions.
Human-Robot Interaction in Social Robotics by Takayuki Kanda,Hiroshi Ishiguro
By Takayuki Kanda,Hiroshi Ishiguro
Human–Robot interplay in Social Robotics explores very important matters in designing a robotic method that works with humans in daily environments. Edited via prime figures within the box of social robotics, it attracts on contributions through researchers engaged on the Robovie undertaking on the ATR clever Robotics and communique Laboratories, a global chief in humanoid interactive robotics. The booklet brings jointly, in a single quantity, technical and empirical learn that was once formerly scattered in the course of the literature.
Taking a networked robotic method, the ebook examines how robots paintings in cooperation with ubiquitous sensors and other people over telecommunication networks. It considers using social robots in lifestyle, grounding the paintings in box reviews performed at a faculty, educate station, shopping center, and technological know-how museum. severe within the improvement of community robots, those usability experiences enable researchers to find actual matters that must be solved and to appreciate what forms of prone are possible.
The publication tackles key components the place improvement is required, specifically, in sensor networks for monitoring people and robots, humanoids that may paintings in daily environments, and services for interacting with humans. It introduces a sensor community built through the authors and discusses options within the Robovie humanoid, together with a number of interactive behaviors and layout regulations.
Exploring how people have interaction with robots in everyday life settings, this booklet bargains worthy perception into how robots can be utilized sooner or later. the combo of engineering, empirical, and box stories offers readers with wealthy details to steer in constructing useful interactive robots.
The FORA Framework: A Fuzzy Grassroots Ontology for Online by Edy Portmann
By Edy Portmann
Advances in Human Factors in Sports and Outdoor Recreation: by Paul Salmon,Anne-Claire Macquet
By Paul Salmon,Anne-Claire Macquet
This ebook describes state of the art functions of human components for game and outdoors sport disciplines and offers useful advice on more than a few tools for describing, representing, and comparing human, staff, and approach functionality in activities domain names. Contributions during this e-book convey how a variety of human elements tools, utilized traditionally within the complicated safeguard severe domain names, are suited for describing and figuring out activities functionality and activities damage prevention. The e-book discusses a wealth of equipment for various reasons, akin to facts assortment, activity research (including cognitive activity analysis), workload dimension, assessing state of affairs know-how, functionality overview (including staff functionality assessment), choice making and cognition in activities, human mistakes identity, and interface evaluate tools. With recognize to different courses in human elements and ergonomics, that have been extra eager about the biomechanical, physiological, environmental, and equipment-related facets of activities functionality, this e-book offers a unique emphasis to analyze on research of person and staff activities, cognitive and social human elements, and covers either activities and open air sport disciplines. in accordance with the AHFE 2016 foreign convention on Human elements in activities and open air sport, hung on July 27-31, 2016, in Walt Disney World®, Florida, united states, this booklet offers readers with a well timed survey of latest tools that may be carried out in the course of any activity or open air game occasion for reading and enhancing the functionality and safeguard of either participants and teams.
Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works by Janice (Ginny) Redish

By Janice (Ginny) Redish
Web website layout and improvement maintains to turn into extra subtle. an immense a part of this adulthood originates with well-laid-out and well-written content material. Ginny Redish is a world-renowned specialist on info layout and the way to provide transparent writing in simple language for the net. the entire precious details that she shared within the first variation is integrated with various new examples. New details on content material process for sites, web optimization (SEO), and social media make this once more the single publication you want to personal to optimize your writing for the web.
- New fabric on content material technique, search engine optimisation, and social media
- Lots of latest and up to date examples
- More emphasis on new like drugs, iPads, and iPhones
Whole-Body Impedance Control of Wheeled Humanoid Robots by Alexander Dietrich
By Alexander Dietrich
Introducing cellular humanoid robots into human environments calls for the platforms to bodily have interaction and execute a number of concurrent projects. The monograph handy provides a whole-body torque controller for dexterous and secure robot manipulation. This keep an eye on method allows a cellular humanoid robotic to at the same time meet numerous keep an eye on ambitions with assorted pre-defined degrees of precedence, whereas offering the talents for compliant actual contacts with people and the environment.
After a basic creation into the subject of whole-body keep watch over, a number of crucial reactive initiatives are constructed to increase the repertoire of robot keep watch over targets. also, the classical Cartesian impedance is prolonged to the case of cellular robots. All of those projects are then mixed and built-in into an total, priority-based keep watch over legislation. in addition to the experimental validation of the technique, the formal evidence of asymptotic balance for this hierarchical controller is gifted. by means of interconnecting the whole-body controller with a man-made intelligence, the monstrous capability of the built-in strategy for advanced real-world purposes is proven. a number of usual family chores, reminiscent of autonomously wiping a window or sweeping the ground with a brush, are effectively played at the cellular humanoid robotic Rollin’ Justin of the German Aerospace middle (DLR).
The effects recommend the provided controller for a wide number of fields of software equivalent to provider robotics, human-robot cooperation in undefined, telepresence in scientific functions, area robotics situations, and the operation of cellular robots in harmful and unsafe environments.
Dialogues with Social Robots: Enablements, Analyses, and by Kristiina Jokinen,Graham Wilcock
By Kristiina Jokinen,Graham Wilcock
This booklet explores novel elements of social robotics, spoken discussion structures, human-robot interplay, spoken language realizing, multimodal verbal exchange, and process overview. It bargains a number of views on and recommendations to crucial questions on complex ideas for social robots and chat systems.
Chapters through prime researchers tackle key learn and improvement themes within the box of spoken discussion platforms, focusing particularly on 3 distinctive subject matters: discussion nation monitoring, assessment of human-robot discussion in social robotics, and socio-cognitive language processing.
The booklet bargains a invaluable source for researchers and practitioners in either academia and whose paintings contains complex interplay know-how and who're looking an updated evaluation of the most important themes. It additionally presents supplementary academic fabric for classes on cutting-edge discussion procedure applied sciences, social robotics, and comparable learn fields.
HCI Remixed: Reflections on Works That Have Influenced the by Thomas Erickson,David W. McDonald

By Thomas Erickson,David W. McDonald
Productive Multivocality in the Analysis of Group by Daniel D. Suthers,Kristine Lund,Carolyn Penstein Rosé,Chris
By Daniel D. Suthers,Kristine Lund,Carolyn Penstein Rosé,Chris Teplovs,Nancy Law
Information Visualization: Perception for Design by Colin Ware

By Colin Ware
Most designers comprehend that yellow textual content provided opposed to a blue history reads essentially and simply, yet what percentage can clarify why, and what rather are the simplest how you can aid others and ourselves in actual fact see key styles in a number of information? after we use software program, entry an internet site, or view company or clinical images, our knowing is enormously more advantageous or impeded incidentally the data is presented.
This e-book explores the artwork and technology of why we see items the way in which we do. in keeping with the technology of notion and imaginative and prescient, the writer provides the main ideas at paintings for a variety of applications--resulting in visualization of stronger readability, software, and persuasiveness. The booklet bargains sensible instructions that may be utilized through a person: interplay designers, image designers of every kind (including internet designers), info miners, and fiscal analysts.
- Complete replace of the famous resource in undefined, study, and educational for acceptable tips on details visualizing.
- Includes the newest learn and cutting-edge info on multimedia presentation.
- More than a hundred and sixty specific layout directions in line with imaginative and prescient science.
- A new ultimate bankruptcy that explains the method of visible considering and the way visualizations support us to contemplate problems.
- Packed with over four hundred informative complete colour illustrations, that are key to realizing of the subject.