OBJECTIVES The authors have demonstrated that the limited bandwidth associated with conventional hearing aid amplification prevents useful high-frequency speech information from being transmitted. The purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy of two popular frequency-lowering algorithms and one novel algorithm (spectral envelope decimation) in adults with mild to moderate sensorineural ...

Recent studies have observed the perceptual effect of peripherally displayed web ads on consumers’ online shopping behavior. This study examines how an individual’s disposition in cognitive operations need for cognition (NFC), interacts with web ad presentation formats to influence the functioning of the perceptual fluency effect. It integrates web ad literature with the persuasion knowledge mo...

Traditional authentication methods (e.g., password, PIN) often do not scale well to the context of mobile devices in terms of security and usability. However, the adoption of Near Field Communication (NFC) on a broad range of smartphones enables the use of NFC-enabled tokens as an additional authentication factor. This additional factor can help to improve the security, as well as usability of ...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the moderated mediation model of the relationship between the behavioral inhibition system (BIS), need for closure (NFC) and working memory capacity (WMC) in the decision making process. It was assumed that NFC works as a motivational mechanism that enables individuals high in BIS to deal with uncertainty; therefore, NFC mediates the effect of BIS...

Near Field Communication (NFC) is an emerging technology for touch-based mobile interactionswith singleandmulti-tagged objects. Although the lattermay allow for simultaneous and collaborative interactions, most prototypes were not designed for multiple users and were only evaluated with single-user interactions. In this paper, we investigate the design, usability and user experience of multi-us...

This paper presents a low-power wearable biosignal monitoring system. The proposed system can communicate with smartphones using Near Field Communication (NFC) to check vital signs easily at any time. It comprises a battery, electrodes, a triaxial accelerometer IC, an NFC tag IC, and a biosignal processor LSI. The proposed biosignal processor LSI, fabricated using a 130-nm CMOS process, compris...

The increasing number of mobile vendors releasing NFC-enabled devices to the market and their prominent adoption has moved this technology from a niche product to a product with a large market-share. NFC facilitates natural interactions between digital world and physical learning environments. The scaffolding of learning ecologies is a key aspect for lifelong learners in their challenge to inte...

Recently, smart devices for various services have been developed using converged telecommunications, and the markets for near field communication mobile services is expected to grow rapidly. In particular, the realization of mobile NFC payment services is expected to go commercial, and it is widely attracting attention both on a domestic and global level. However, this realization would increas...

This study presents a new evolutionary learning algorithm to optimize the parameters of the neural fuzzy classifier (NFC). This new evolutionary learning algorithm is based on a hybrid of bacterial foraging optimization and particle swarm optimization. It is thus called bacterial foraging particle swarm optimization (BFPSO). The proposed BFPSO method performs local search through the chemotacti...

Attendance Management System (AMS) is the easiest way to keep track of attendance for community organisations for day-to-day monitoring of attendance and manpower analysis. AMS comes in four types. These are Manual, Biometric, Card-based or ECommerce systems. This paper presents the implementation of an AMS that is based on Bluetooth and NFC technologies in a multiuser environment. It uses fing...