A system for mobile office and entertainment applications was developed. The input modalities include touch screen and automatic speech recognition, the output modalities screen output and speech synthesis. Services comprise an e-mail reading and responding application, a configurable news feed (RSS) reader and, as entertainment, a license plate information application. Being conceptually eyesa...

This paper describes a nursing robot system that is called DO-U-MI developed for helping elderly and disabled people. For that purpose, the nursing robot system has a capability to assist elderly and disabled people to move independently in indoor environments such as a nursing home. It also provides a convenient man-machine interface for easy usage and various entertainment services for users....

consumers’ willingness to pay for nonmarket commodities such as wildlife, quality of the environment and forest services (including timber production, water conservation, soil conservation, oxygen supply, carbon sequestration, recreation services and wildlife preservation) is a measure of value of these resources. in recent years the contingent valuation has been used to determine this and othe...

How are the over 30,000 people employed in therapeutic recreation staying current in their field? A number of therapeutic recreation professionals have designed web sites with information specific to the therapeutic recreation field. The two national organizations (ATRA and NTRS) and the national certification council (NCTRC) also maintain web sites. In addition, a few therapeutic recreation pr...

The study deals with consumer behavior in consuming OTT media streaming services India. Nine variables of motivations such as Relaxation, Companionship, Habit, Pastime, Entertainment, Social interaction, Information, Arousal, and Escape are studied, which affect the intention to continue subscribe these services. Tools frequency analysis, One Way ANOVA, Regression analysis used demographic char...

Now-a-days internet has become a vast source of entertainment & new services are available in quick succession which provides entertainment to the users. One of this service i.e. Video-on-Demand is most hyped service in this context. Transferring the video over the network with less error is the main objective of the service providers. In this paper we present an algorithm for routing the video...

We review the current state of knowledge about urban ecosystem services in New York City (NYC) and how these services are regulated, planned for, and managed. Focusing on ecosystem services that have presented challenges in NYC-including stormwater quality enhancement and flood control, drinking water quality, food provisioning and recreation-we find that mismatches between the scale of product...

Purpose. The purpose of our work is to investigate the presence tourist infrastructure elements ensure a comfortable stay tourists in destinations, which can become driver development local communities, especially rural areas; investigation financial support for tourism by governments. A derivative task study identify challenges and prospects destinations after pandemic.
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Nature tourism is considered a tourist activity that carried out without altering the stability of natural environment, promoting conservation nature and existing environment by interacting with it. However, communication technology has changed global economy business in recent decades. Considering these aspects, main objective this research was current characterization tourism, its technologic...