This paper presents the project of the LG Sangnam Library that made real the concept of a ubiquitous library. The project intends to provide a service so that the printdisabled can take advantage of the library system and information services without complicated procedures in connections and user certifications by using NFC (Near Field Communication) technology-applied mobile phones. This model...

This paper presents an intuitive, easy-to-use prototype system that supports users in booking and managing meeting rooms based on Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. The prototype was designed to evaluate an NFC application for smart office solutions. We used our prototype to conduct a study with 37 participants in two organizations. The evaluation was based on structured interviews and ...

Smart cards are being integrated into a diverse range of industries: ranging from banking, telecom, transport, home/office access control to health and E-passport. Traditionally, cardholders are required to carry a smart card for each application. However, recent developments in the Near Field Communication (NFC) have renewed the interest in multiple applications for different services on a sin...

Near Field Communication (NFC) is an emerging close range, low bandwidth, induction based communication standard. It is already and will be more broadly integrated tightly with modern smartphones, devices and operating systems. Payment services, setup of high-bandwidth connections, information sharing and identity verification become possible by just touching two NFC devices together. This pape...

Atmospheric conditions fundamentally influence the timing, intensity, energetics, and geography of avian migration. While radar is typically used to infer the influence of weather on the magnitude and spatiotemporal patterns of nocturnal bird migration, monitoring the flight calls produced by many bird species during nocturnal migration represents an alternative methodology and provides informa...

The authors examined the hypothesis that psychosocial identity development is related to need for cognition (NFC), a social–cognitive individual-difference variable defined as the desire to engage in effortful thinking (J. T. Cacioppo, R. E. Petty, J. Feinstein, & W. Jarvis, 1996). They administered 2 measures of psychosocial identity—a scale from the Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity ...

In this paper, we present a Near Field Communication (NFC)-based electronic data capture prototype for patient self-reported rating scales. Such scales are valuable feedback for medical treatment and care processes. As traditional paper-based questionnaires are timeand cost-consuming and may be affected by low patient compliance, our prototype allows patient monitoring and electronic data acqui...

Spray-drying was chosen as an appropriately scalable manufacturing method to dry cellulose nanofibril (CNF) suspensions. Spray-drying of two different types of CNF suspensions—nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) and cellulose nanocrystals (CNC)—was carried out using a laboratory-scale spray dryer. Effects of three spray-drying process parameters on particle morphology and particle size distribution...

Today’s smartphones and tablets offer compelling computing and storage capabilities enabling a variety of mobile applications with rich functionality. The integration of new interfaces, in particular near field communication (NFC) opens new opportunities for new applications and business models, as the most recent trend in industry for payment and ticketing shows. These applications require sto...

The rheology of NFC suspensions that exhibited different microstructures and colloidal stability, namely TEMPO and enzymatic NFC suspensions, was investigated at the macro and mesoscales using a transparent Couette rheometer combined with optical observations and ultrasonic speckle velocimetry (USV). Both NFC suspensions showed a complex rheology, which was typical of yield stress, non-linear a...