In today’s mechanized world, the need for a patient-friendly attitude in the hospitals and its psychological effects on the recovery time of patients has been proven. Considering the special pre and post-partum conditions of a pregnant woman, together with the fact that the mother and child cannot be treated as a patient case, makes these psychological effects more critical in this resear...

In a multi-tenanted collaboration system there is the need to monitor traffic within the system to avoid congestion and encourage collaborations to maintain adequate resources. This gave rise to the need for adequate pricing to minimize unnecessary access, while encouraging visitors to the network. The researchers believe that inasmuch as there is need to restrain access through pricing, in the...

Imagine you are in Milano for the Design Week. You have just spent a couple of days attending few nice events in Brera district. Which of the other hundreds of events spread around in Milano shall you attend now? This paper presents a system able to recommend venues to the visitors of such a city-scale event based on the digital footprints they left on Social Media. By combining deductive and i...

Mixed Reality Lab, Singapore [email protected] Abstract Magic Land is an application of mixed reality in art and entertainment. This system includes a special recording room where visitors can have themselves captured and a mixed reality environment where the 3D avatars of those visitors and 3D computer generated virtual characters can form an interactive story and play with each other. Mag...

Since 2004 the virtual agent Max is living at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum – a computer science museum. He is welcoming and entertaining visitors ten hours a day, six days a week, for seven years. This article brings together the experiences made by the staff of the museum, the scientists who created and maintained the installation, the visitors and the agent himself. It provides insights abo...

This paper presents the concepts, implementation details, and evaluation objectives of ActivitySpot, an infrastructure and toolkit aiming at supporting localized activities performed by occasional visitors. We are particularly interested in enabling a user experience that is activity-centered and that makes the most of the available ubiquitous computing resources for carrying out a localized ac...

Over the last years, museums and galleries are looking for new ways to show exhibitions to visitors. For that purpose, new technologies like augmented reality are used. In this paper an augmented reality system for indoor exhibitions is presented. The system is formed by visualization screens that mix exhibition environment, visitors included, with multimedia and virtual 3D objects which visito...

This paper presents a study of visitors to the Big Sur region of California during summer 2001. An onsite survey was administered to visitors to USDA Forest Service day-use areas and at developed campgrounds. Place attachment, observations relating to fires and fire management, and perceived recreational constraints owing to wildland fire and fire management are examined. The results indicate t...

1 Work performed during an internship from the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. ABSTRACT We describe an electronic guidebook prototype and report on a study of its use in a historic house. Supported by mechanisms in the guidebook, visitors constructed experiences that had a high degree of interaction with three entities: the guidebook, their companions, and the house and i...