Smart Technologies: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice

Smart Technologies: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice

Information Resources Management Association

Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 602

ISBN13: 9781522525899|ISBN10: 1522525890|EISBN13: 9781522525905

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2589-9

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Ongoing advancements in modern technology have led to significant developments with smart technologies. With the numerous applications available, it becomes imperative to conduct research and make further progress in this field.

Smart Technologies: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice provides comprehensive and interdisciplinary research on the most emerging areas of information science and technology. Including innovative studies on image and speech recognition, human-computer interface, and wireless technologies, this multi-volume book is an ideal source for researchers, academicians, practitioners, and students interested in advanced technological applications and developments.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface

Chapters

Assistive and Wearable Technology

Chapter 1

RFID and Dead-Reckoning-Based Indoor Navigation for Visually Impaired Pedestrians (pages 1-16)

Kai Li Lim, Kah Phooi Seng, Lee Seng Yeong, Li-Minn Ang

This chapter presents an indoor navigation solution for visually impaired pedestrians, which employs a combination of a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag array and dead-reckoning to achieve positioning and localisation. This...

Chapter 2

Information Communication Assistive Technologies for Visually Impaired People (pages 17-43)

Li-Minn Ang, Kah Phooi Seng, Tee Zhi Heng

The information explosion era provides the foundation for a technological solution to enable the visually impaired to more independent living in the community. This paper first provides a review of assistive technologies for visually...

Chapter 3

Gaze-Based Assistive Technologies (pages 44-66)

Thies Pfeiffer

The eyes play an important role both in perception and communication. Technical interfaces that make use of their versatility can bring significant improvements to those who are unable to speak or to handle selection tasks elsewise...

Chapter 4

Design and Evaluation of Vision-Based Head and Face Tracking Interfaces for Assistive Input (pages 67-96)

Chamin Morikawa, Michael J. Lyons

Interaction methods based on computer-vision hold the potential to become the next powerful technology to support breakthroughs in the field of human-computer interaction. Non-invasive vision-based techniques permit unconventional...

Chapter 5

Next Wave of Tele-Medicine: Virtual Presence of Medical Personnel (pages 97-109)

Kelvin J. Bwalya

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are being embedded into healthcare system front-end and back-end platforms both in the developing and developing world contexts in ways unimaginable 20 years ago. This trend has...

Chapter 6

Emerging Technologies for Dementia Patient Monitoring (pages 110-154)

Tarik Qassem

In this chapter, the author explores the available technologies that can enhance the Quality of Life of individuals with dementia. He investigates the foundations of telemetry, different sensor technologies, Context-Aware Systems...

Corporate Innovation

Chapter 7

PRHOLO: 360º Interactive Public Relations (pages 156-181)

João Rodrigues, Ricardo Alves, Luís Sousa, Aldric Negrier, Jânio Monteiro, Pedro Cardoso, Paulo Felisberto, Mauro Figueiredo, Bruno Mendes da Silva, Roberto Lam, Jaime Carvalho Martins, Miguel Gomes, Paulo Bica

In the globalized world, possessing good products may not be enough to reach potential clients unless creative marketing strategies are well delineated. In this context, public relations are also important when it comes to capture...

Chapter 8

Usability Evaluation of Dialogue Designs for Voiceprint Authentication in Automated Telephone Banking (pages 182-201)

Nancie Gunson, Diarmid Marshall, Fergus McInnes, Hazel Morton, Mervyn A. Jack

This paper describes an empirical investigation of the usability of different dialogue designs for voiceprint authentication in automated telephone banking. Three strategies for voice authentication were evaluated in an experiment...

Chapter 9

Technology-Enabled Experiential Marketing: Promotional Strategies Towards New Service Opportunities (pages 202-221)

Thorben Haenel, Wilhelm Loibl, Hui Wang

In recent years, there has been an increased interest from both academia and practitioners in the topic of customer experience. Companies nowadays are transforming their attention and endeavour to focus on memorable or customer...

Chapter 10

Emerging Technologies and Organizational Transformation (pages 222-237)

Albena Antonova

Technologies continue to evolve and to largely transform business practices. In the near future, a few technologies, such as Internet of Things (IoT), Augmented Reality (AR), additive manufacturing (3D printing), and robots, can...

Chapter 11

Hybrid Intelligence for Smarter Networking Operations (pages 238-270)

Bassem Mahmoud Mokhtar, Mohamed Eltoweissy

The ever-growing and ever-evolved Internet targets supporting billions of networked entities to provide a wide variety of services and resources. Such complexity results in network-data from different sources with special...

Culture, Society, and the Arts

Chapter 12

Upgrading Society With Smart Government: The Use of Smart Services Among Federal Offices of the UAE (pages 272-304)

Badreya Al-Jenaibi

This paper aims to explore the goals and motives of electronic government utilization among the citizens, the motives of their preference as well as the extent of use of these smart applications in the UAE. Also, it investigates the...

Chapter 13

Societal Implications of Current and Emerging “Smart” Technologies (pages 305-317)

Octavian Mihai Machidon

While every new technology brings along the expected “blessings” for its users, there is also the thick end of the stick, namely the potential hazards and undesired effects that it might cause. Today, smart technologies are being...

Chapter 14

ZatLab Gesture Recognition Framework: Machine Learning Results (pages 318-332)

André Baltazar

The main problem this work addresses is the real-time recognition of gestures, particularly in the complex domain of artistic performance. By recognizing the performer gestures, one is able to map them to diverse controls, from...

Chapter 15

ZatLab: Programming a Framework for Gesture Recognition and Performance Interaction (pages 333-365)

André Baltazar, Luís Gustavo Martins

Computer programming is not an easy task, and as with all difficult tasks, it can be faced as tedious, impossible to do, or as a challenge. Therefore, learning to program with a purpose enables that “challenge mindset” and encourages...

Educational Technology

Chapter 16

Second Language Learners' Spoken Discourse: Practice and Corrective Feedback Through Automatic Speech Recognition (pages 367-389)

Catia Cucchiarini, Helmer Strik

This chapter examines the use of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology in the context of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and language learning and teaching research. A brief introduction to ASR is first provided...

Chapter 17

Speech Recognition Software Contributes to Reading Development for Young Learners of English (pages 390-404)

Kenneth Reeder, Jon Shapiro, Jane Wakefield, Reg D'Silva

Thirty-six English language learners aged 6;8 to 12;6 years received practice with The Reading Tutor, which uses speech recognition to listen to oral reading and provides context-sensitive feedback. A crossover research design...

Chapter 18

Integration of Wireless Technologies in Smart University Campus Environment: Framework Architecture (pages 405-416)

Yaser Khamayseh, Wail Mardini, Shadi Aljawarneh, Muneer Bani Yassein

In this paper, the authors are particularly interested in enhancing the education process by integrating new tools to the teaching environments. This enhancement is part of an emerging concept, called smart campus. Smart University...

Chapter 19

A Kinect-Based Assessment System for Smart Classroom (pages 417-436)

W. G. C. W. Kumara, Kanoksak Wattanachote, Batbaatar Battulga, Timothy K. Shih, Wu-Yuin Hwang

With the advancements of the human computer interaction field, nowadays it is possible for the users to use their body motions, such as swiping, pushing and moving, to interact with the content of computers or smart phones without...

Chapter 20

Interactive Boards in Schools: Middle and High School Teachers' Uses and Difficulties (pages 437-451)

Wajeeh Daher, Essa Alfahel

This chapter examines middle school and high school teachers' use of interactive boards in the classroom, as well as the goals behind this use and the difficulties encountered throughout it. Ten middle school and high school...

Urban Spaces and Energy Optimization

Chapter 21

Visualising Data for Smart Cities (pages 453-475)

Michael Batty, Andrew Hudson-Smith, Stephan Hugel, Flora Roumpani

This chapter introduces a range of analytics being used to understand the smart city, which depends on data that can primarily be understood using new kinds of scientific visualisation. We focus on short term routine functions that...

Chapter 22

Wireless Access Networks for Smart Cities (pages 476-507)

Hervé Rivano, Isabelle Augé-Blum, Walid Bechkit, Khaled Boussetta, Marco Fiore, Razvan Stanica, Fabrice Valois

Smart cities are envisioned to enable a vast amount of services in urban environments, so as to improve mobility, health, resource management, and, generally speaking, citizens' quality of life. Most of these services rely on...

Chapter 23

Smart CCTV and the Management of Urban Space (pages 508-526)

Jung Hoon Han, Scott Hawken, Angelique Williams

This chapter briefly describes the proliferation of CCTV over the last few decades with particular reference to Australia and discusses the limits of the technology. It then focuses on new image interpretation and signal processing...

Chapter 24

Urbanizing the Ambient: Why People Matter So Much in Smart Cities (pages 527-549)

H. Patricia McKenna

The purpose of this chapter is to develop and explore the ambient urbanizing concept as a way to shed light on what happens at the urban level when people become more aware and attuned to smartness and ambience in everyday city...

Chapter 25

Optimized Energy Consumption and Demand Side Management in Smart Grid (pages 550-574)

Sadiq Ahmad, Ayaz Ahmad, Raziq Yaqub

This chapter reviews prevailing methodologies and future techniques to optimize energy consumption. It discerns that smart grid provides better tools and equipment to control and monitor the consumer load, and optimize the energy...

Chapter 26

Implementation of Flooding Free Routing in Smart Grid: VCP Routing in Smart Gird (pages 575-598)

Saad Afzal

Smart Grid is a communication and automatic control capabilities in electric power grid system for improving efficiency, reliability, management, capabilities and security of electric power grid. Routing is important in Smart Grid to...

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