Building design is one of the essential elements to consider for maximizing sustainability construction. Prior studies on energy and resource consumption indoor environmental quality indicators (IEQs) are increasingly frequent; however, attention has not been focused as supporting function performed within architecture. Educational buildings have specific conditions related teaching methodologi...

This article highlights an indoor navigation ontology for an indoor production environment. The ontology focuses on the movement of production assets in an indoor environment, to support autonomous navigation in the indoor space. Due to the fact that production environments have a different layout than ordinary indoor spaces, like buildings for office or residential use, an ontology focusing on...

In this paper the authors introduce PERCEPT-V indoor navigation for the blind system. PERCEPT-V enhances PERCEPT system by enabling visually impaired users to navigate in open indoor spaces that differ in size and lighting conditions. The authors deploy visual tags in the environment at specific landmarks and introduce a visual tag detection algorithm using a sampling probe and cascading approa...

Emerging communication-intensive applications such as multimedia teleconferencing require signiicant networking resources for eecient operation. In an indoor mobile computing environment, limited wireless resources and user mobility require eeective resource reservation algorithms. These requirements demand an eecient advance reservation algorithm in order to minimize handoo call dropping while...

OBJECTIVE This study sought to evaluate the impact of curricular change on the perception of the Educational Environment (EE) in nursing students. METHODOLOGY This was a cross-sectional study. Two consecutive cohorts were evaluated during the second year, entering 2010 (N: 58) and 2011 (N: 57) for former and new curriculum, respectively. A sociodemographic survey and perception of the EE was ...

Vision system plays an important role in the field of indoor robot. Saliency detection methods, capturing regions that are perceived as important, are used to improve the performance of visual perception system. Most of state-of-the-art methods for saliency detection, performing outstandingly in natural images, cannot work in complicated indoor environment. Therefore, we propose a new method co...

Wireless local area networks (WLAN’s) based on the 802.11 standards are ubiquitous. However, the popularity of WLAN’s has made interference between WLAN users an issue. Spatial division multiple access (SDMA) is one way to orthogonalize these users and reduce interference. The contribution of this paper is to use real antenna array prototypes to determine the best array design for implementing ...

Surveys in several office buildings have shown that crowded work places, job dissatisfaction and physical environment are the main factors affecting productivity. the data was produced and analyzed using occupational stress indicator in conjunction with the analytical hierarchical process. thermal problems, stuffiness, sick building syndrome factors and crowded work places were most frequent co...

Educational games are a class of serious games whose main purpose is to teach some subject to their players. Despite the many existing design frameworks, these games are too often created in an ad-hoc manner, and typically without the use of a game design document (GDD). We argue that a reason for this phenomenon is that current ways to structure, create and update GDDs do not increase the valu...