Special Issue on Robotic-Based Technologies for Rehabilitation and Assistance

Special Issue on Assistive and Rehabilitation Robotics

Assistive and rehabilitation robotics currently covers a broad spectrum of research areas, from intelligent robots that act as aides, companions and educators; to robots that provide physical assistance for mobility, manipulation and support; to embedded robotics, ambient intelligence and intelligent spaces. People whose ability to perform daily living activities is limited or inhibited by inju...

Special Issue on Human Technologies for Special Needs

A research and development (R&D) approach has been applied to video telephony (VT) in northern Finland since 1994 by broad consortia. The focus has been on the considerable involvement of ergonomics within the engineering and implementation of VT. This multidisciplinary participatory ergonomic R&D approach (PERDA) is described briefly, in general and through two cases. The user-centeredness sho...

Introduction to Special Issue on “Fluorescence-Based Sensing Technologies”

Special Issue on Next Generation Wireless Technologies

The next generation wireless networks are expected to converge into a ubiquitous architecture, which includes high-speed cellular networks, wireless local area networks (WLANs), mobile ad hoc networks, peer-to-peer networks, wireless metropolitan area networks (WMANs), etc. The increasing demand of wireless multimedia services has motivated the development of broad wireless access in the hetero...

Modern Technologies for Web-based Adaptive Systems J.UCS Special Issue

of this workshop, were Ngoc Thanh Nguyen and Janusz Sobecki. Adaptive systems are nowadays used for continuous adjustment to changes in the environment. The web-based systems environment contains users, system platforms, and other elements to be controlled by the system. These elements are not stable. Their characteristics change over time and new elements appear in the scope of systems of this...