Smoking in public places is a hot debate presently in Europe. A number of legislative bodies in Europe have already made policy decisions on the issue of smoking in public places. Scientific evidence relating to this debate has been reported in a diverse range of publications such as BMJ, Indoor air and the BSJ. On inspection much of the reporting concludes negatively on the performance of vent...

Open public places, such as pedestrian streets, parks, and squares, are vulnerable when the pedestrians thronged into sidewalks. The crowd count changes dynamically over time with various external factors, surroundings, weekends, peak hours, so it is essential to predict accurate timely count. To address this issue, study introduces graph convolutional network (GCN), a network-based model, flow...

It is the aim of this paper to show on a meta-level how studies in public places can contribute to positively influence people’s attitude towards robots. By means of examining objective and subjective data gathered in the lab and data from field studies, it will be shown how people’s experiences with a robot outside the sheltering laboratory surroundings can help to value robots more positively...