Decelerating device mock-ups in an aquatic environment

Mock-ups as "interactive laboratories": mixed methods research using inpatient unit room mock-ups.

OBJECTIVE To establish evidence-based design (EBD) guidelines for inpatient rooms at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities. BACKGROUND Simulation allows clients, designers, and researchers to visualize how users might interact with a proposed design before actual construction of the design. This study used mock-ups as a simulation technique during a study of the VA inpatient room sta...

Management of Associations within Digital Mock-Ups for Improved Collaboration

In the current collaborative and extended-enterprise environment, product definition must be exchanged between original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and other partners who contribute to the evolution of product definition. In many cases, an information package, which is associated with other objects in the DMU, must thus be extracted from the OEM’s Digital Mock -up (DMU) and be sent to partner...

Microplastics Pollution in the Aquatic Environment: Problems and Challenges

Package AquaEnv: an Aquatic modelling Environment in R

AquaEnv (Hofmann et al. 2010b) is an integrated development toolbox for aquatic chemical model generation focused on (ocean) acidification and CO2 air-water exchange. It contains ❼ All elements necessary to model the pH, the related CO2 air-water exchange, as well as aquatic acid-base chemistry in general for an arbitrary marine, estuarine or freshwater system. ❼ A suite of tools to visualize t...

Heterogeneous Device Networking for an AmI Environment

Assisted living environments involve a wide range of different devices. Most of them are commercially available, but typically associated to standard domotics buses not compatible with each other. Besides, in many cases it is desirable to integrate new devices to a system that might not support the installed bus protocol. Interconnection between devices is far from simple, specially because dom...