In the near future, providers of mobile services will face increasing competition. Therefore, the ability to design, develop and deploy reliable contextaware services fast and easily will become essential. We introduce an agent-based Serviceware Framework assisting service providers in developing innovative services, thus reducing the time-to-market of the respective applications. Within the Be...

Economic values of various ecosystem services recreational forests are not well understood in many countries, including Malaysia. Policymakers and resource managers with a lack such information may make inappropriate decisions to manage forest resources. To address the problem, this study used data estimated economic value recreation as cultural service Ayer Keroh Recreational Forest (AKRF) Mal...

The Interactive Digital Television (iDTV) has facilitated and expanded the communication and interaction in activities of knowledge acquisitions, entertainment and recreation in Distance Learning field. This new way of teaching and learning has been called t-Learning. In this context, the Learning Objects (LOs) have an important role to assist in the electronic courses’ development. Due the fas...

The rapid development of in-car communication systems in recent years has created problematic human interface challenges. Modern human-computer interfaces are integrated into car's communication systems to make its functionality easily accessible. This paper presents a realistic talking head, which enables a user interface with multi-modality. A talking head in human-car interfaces allows a mor...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the correlates of job boredom in 87 Finnish workplaces (N = 11,468) and to examine the associations between job boredom, health outcomes, and job attitudes. METHODS We applied the Dutch Boredom Scale to measure job boredom. Hierarchical logistic regression analysis and odds ratio estimates were used for further examination of the variables. RESULTS Male, under-36-ye...

Elderly people constitute a major portion of world's population. Many of them are physically and mentally vulnerable and need continuous support for their health and well-being. There is a growing trend that these elderly people are placed in an ambient assisted living environment (AAL) with an aim to receive better care and support. In such settings, a lot of attention has been given to contin...