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This paper describes concepts, design, implementation, and performance evaluation of a 3D-based user interface for accessing IoT-based Smart Environments (IoT-SE). The generic interaction model of the described work addresses some major challenges of Human-IoT-SE-Interaction such as cognitive overload associated with manual device selection in complex IoT-SE, loss of user control, missing system image or over-automation. To address these challenges we propose a 3D-based mobile interface for mixed-initiative interaction in IoT-SE. The 3D visualization and 3D UI, acting as the central feature of the system, create a logical link between physical devices and their virtual representation on the... 

This paper describes concepts, design, implementation, and performance evaluation of a 3D-based user interface for accessing IoT-based Smart Environments (IoT-SE). The generic interaction model of the described work addresses some major challenges of Human-IoT-SE-Interaction such as cognitive overload associated with manual device selection in complex IoT-SE, loss of user control, missing system image or over-automation. To address these challenges we propose a 3D-based mobile interface for mixed-initiative interaction in IoT-SE. The 3D visualization and 3D UI, acting as the central feature of the system, create a logical link between physical devices and their virtual representation on the... 

An important challenge in smart environments is how to manipulate the smart objects. Although mobile applications are typically used for controlling a smart environment, no previous study has evaluated the users performance in manipulating smart objects under different environmental complexities. This article presents an experimental comparison between three different selection techniques 3-D, 2-D, and physical user interfaces (UIs). We evaluate these techniques across two levels of environment complexity measuring 51 participants timing data and errors. Our results indicate that the 3-D UI is superior for task completion time and error, and the 2-D UI is not a better solution than the... 

Nowadays, handheld devices such as smartphones provide users with multi-touch input screens. Displaying interactive and touch-enabled 3D environments in such handheld devices has become popular in different applications like games or virtual reality. Technologies such as Web3D and WebGL have made the creation and display of 3D environments in mobile devices easier than ever. However, object manipulation techniques are not as well developed. For example, moving an object within the 3D environment or other similar object-specific manipulations are neither intuitive nor easy to perform. Current manipulation techniques like Gizmo that are successful in systems that use mouse and keyboard are not... 

Conflict is one of the important factors affecting user satisfaction and trust in smart environments, yet conflict modeling in mixed initiative smart environments has not been sufficiently explored. Most of the existing literature on conflict in smart homes are centered on conflicts between users. Although research has shown that about 75% of conflicts are between users and system [1], only a few studies have considered user-system conflicts in smart homes. The aim of this article is to empirically propose both a definition and a run-time detection method for conflicts between users and smart home systems. Our empirical study is based on conflict sample scenarios collected from 163 users.... 

Smart environments are complex systems encompassing multitude of devices with complex interconnections and interactions. User must not only be able to figure out the devices’ functionalities, but also understand the architectural and semantic relations between various components. Providing such information leads to better understanding and user satisfaction, if users get the appropriate mental models. One way to train users about such smart environments is Interactive Realistic Virtual Reality based Simulations (IRVRS): multimedia rich collaborative 3D virtual environments. IRVRS also facilitate easy and inexpensive access to population masses, thus they can be used for conducting large... 

Mobile e-health applications provide users and healthcare practitioners with an insightful way to check users/patients’ status and monitor their daily calorie intake. Mobile e-health applications provide users and healthcare practitioners with an insightful way to check users/patients’ status and monitor their daily activities. This paper proposes a cloud-based mobile e-health calorie system that can classify food objects in the plate and further compute the overall calorie of each food object with high accuracy. The novelty in our system is that we are not only offloading heavy computational functions of the system to the cloud, but also employing an intelligent cloud-broker mechanism to... 

Face to face meetings and physical presence are important concepts in student-professor relations. Many students require flexibility in arranging meetings or the possibility of ad-hoc meeting with their professors. However, adhoc meetings could be difficult to arrange due to busy schedule of professors. It is not unusual for students to attempt several times in a day to catch a professor, or wait an hour behind his door. To overcome this challenge, some professors have teaching assistants (TAs) or office assistant who manage their schedule or provide students with helpful information on how to reach them or handover their documents, projects, etc. Many other professors do not have any... 

Ambient Intelligence environments detect and respond to users needs, actions, behaviors and feelings. In the presence of interaction conflicts, user trust plays an important role in accepting Ambient Intelligence environments for living, working, etc. In this paper, we propose a multimedia-supported virtual experiment for online user–system trust studies. We conduct web-based experiments to gather data from a large number of online participants. Subjects experience the environment through an intelligent environment web-based 3D simulator. Our proposed approach can be utilized to measure trust not only in the presence of interaction conflicts, but also in the presence of any other variability... 

Ambient Intelligence environments detect and respond to users needs, actions, behaviors and feelings. In the presence of interaction conflicts, user trust plays an important role in accepting Ambient Intelligence environments for living, working, etc. In this paper, we propose a multimedia-supported virtual experiment for online user–system trust studies. We conduct web-based experiments to gather data from a large number of online participants. Subjects experience the environment through an intelligent environment web-based 3D simulator. Our proposed approach can be utilized to measure trust not only in the presence of interaction conflicts, but also in the presence of any other variability... 

Aggregating fine-granular data measurements from smart meters presents an opportunity for utility companies to learn about consumers' power consumption patterns. Several research studies have shown that power consumption patterns can reveal a range of information about consumers, such as how many people are in the home, the types of appliances they use, their eating and sleeping routines, and even the TV programs they watch. As we move toward liberalized energy markets, many different parties are interested in gaining access to such data, which has enormous economical, societal, and environmental benefits. However, the main concern is that many such beneficial uses of smart meter big data... 

Multimedia content is massively generated from various applications and devices, and processed in cloud data centers. Multimedia service providers prefer that their data are processed in data centers close to users in order to offer them high performance and reliable multimedia services that meet the requirements specified in the Service Level of Agreement (SLA). This requires transferring huge data sets of video streams, games content, images etc. across geographically distributed cloud data centers using underutilized bandwidth in backbone transport networks. As the amount of multimedia content increases, the demand to transfer big data sets across data centers increases as well. As such,... 

The formation of water drops as a Newtonian fluid and formation of a shear-thinning non-Newtonian fluid, Carboxyl Methyl Cellulose (CMC) from a capillary into different bulk fluids are experimentally investigated. A high speed camera is used to visualize the images of the drops and an image-processing code employed to determine the drop properties from each image. It was found that the properties of the water drops when they are drooped into the liquids bulk fluids such as toluene and n-hexane are almost the same while they differed substantially when they were drooped into the air bulk fluid. It is shown that during the formation of water drop in all three kinds of bulk fluids, the drop... 

The aim of this article is the requirement analysis, design, proof-of-concept implementation and user evaluation of a novel user interface that is specifically developed to support interaction with ambient intelligence systems. The focus of the user interface is rather on interacting with ambient intelligence, a meta system that comes into existence as the result of the coherent behavior and collective intelligence of interconnected smart devices and systems of a domain such as meeting rooms or smart homes. To design the user interface, we conducted an empirical user and task analysis and elaborated requirements, defining the scope of human interaction with ambient intelligence. The captured... 

In this study amount of soil erosion in watershed of JAJROOD is estimated by use of the RULSE model with the help of GIS12. JAJROOD River is located in upstream of LATIAN Dam and is one of the most important water sources of Tehran. Also, this River has a big role in preventing the flood. modeling Results show that the amount of soil erosion is high due to high slope of the land, lack of plant coverage and the quality of soil and changing the land application, lead to increase in erosion potential. modeling Results have estimated the amount of erosion in this basin about 1,524,511 tons in a year. In order to evaluate Results and efficiency of the model, all of obtained results are compared... 

In this study, control strategies based on time-varying LQR, Lyapunov-Floquet transformation (LFT), backstepping, feedback linearization, and constant gain feedback control are implemented for the linearized time periodic equations of spacecraft relative motion when the reference orbit is elliptic. Also, natural and nonnatural leader-follower two-spacecraft formations are studied. The stability of the closed-loop response, the control effort required, and the settling time are investigated and compared for all control strategies. Furthermore, using constant gain feedback, the estimated region of attraction of the closed-loop system is obtained analytically