Today the world is overwhelmed by a load of different wireless communication technologies. The concept of interconnecting the things around us into a network raises the question about which communication technologies to use for a specific domain. This paper gives an overview over common wireless communication technologies and how to use them to connect smart objects in different application dom...

We present Tiles Cards, a tool to foster end-user design thinking of smart object applications. Tiles Cards facilitate participatory design by abstracting the complexity of IoT technology into a set of interaction primitives and composition rules accessible to nonexperts. Further, it promotes creative thinking by means of a mission-based game in which teams have to fulfill design tasks under co...

A recent article in this journal (Hershler, O., & Hochstein, S. (2005). At first sight: A high-level pop out effect for faces. Vision Research, 45(13), 1707-1724) reported, in contradiction to several earlier studies, that photographs of human faces can be searched for efficiently (i.e., "pop out") among photographs of other objects (as long as these objects are not "too similar" to faces). An ...

an action resulting from an object like human's damaging action can cause liability for those who possess them. the french civil law at its approval time (1804) had not predicted this principle and just in articles 1385, 1386, the liability of damages resulting from two types of objects, i.e. animals and buildings due to imposing great damages by them had been predicted by french law. howe...

Many studies have shown that our visual system may construct a “statistical summary representation” over groups of visual objects. Although there is a general understanding that human observers can accurately represent sets of a variety of features, many questions on how the statistical summary is computed still remain unanswered. This study investigated sampling properties of visual informatio...

Object detection plays an important role in successfulness of a wide range of applications that involve images as input data. In this paper we have presented a new approach for background modeling by nonconsecutive frames differencing. Direction and velocity of moving objects have been extracted in order to get an appropriate sequence of frames to perform frame subtraction. Stationary parts of ...

hanna mina is considered as  one of the realist writers. he achieved fame in syria by his first novel al-masabih al-zorq (1945) and in his later works introduced himself as a prolific and talented writer.he was different from the others because the subject of his novels was life problems and he believed that realism can embrace other literary schools  such as  romanticism and symbolism. this ap...