Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease affecting more than 285 people worldwide and the fourth leading cause of death. Increasing evidence suggests that many DM patients have poor adherence with prescribed medication therapies, impacting clinical outcomes. Patients' barriers to medication adherence and the extent to which barriers contribute to poor outcomes, however, are not routinely ass...

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) constitute a major safety problem. Healthcare managers need complete and valid information to fight against these infections. The purpose of this study was to develop a dashboard of indicators to help healthcare managers monitor HAIs. A pilot testing approach was used that was composed of the following steps: literature review, consultation with infection...

The proliferation of social media is undoubtedly changing the way people produce and consume news online. Editors and publishers in newsrooms need to understand user engagement and audience sentiment evolution on various news topics. News consumers want to explore public reaction on articles relevant to a topic and refine their exploration via related entities, topics, articles and tweets. I wi...

Social media has recently emerged as an invaluable source of information for decision making. Social media information reflects the interests of virtual communities in a spontaneous and timely manner. The need to understand the massive streams of data generated by social media platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook, has motivated researchers to use machine learning techniques to try to discove...

The emerging next generation ("Web 3.0") of socio-technological tool development is adding additional support for reflecting on and improving the quality of online information, communication, and action coordination. An important opportunity is that online systems can include tools that directly support participants in having higher quality and more skillful engagements. We are evaluating dialo...

Awareness of the road scene is an essential component for both autonomous vehicles and Advances Driver Assistance Systems and is gaining importance both for the academia and car companies. This paper presents a way to learn a semantic-aware transformation which maps detections from a dashboard camera view onto a broader bird’s eye occupancy map of the scene. To this end, a huge synthetic datase...

Abstract This chapter presents the concept of Digital Language Equality (DLE) that was at heart European (ELE) initiative, and describes DLE Metric, which includes technological factors (TFs) contextual (CFs): former concern availability Resources Technologies (LRTs) for languages Europe, based on data included in Grid (ELG) catalogue, while latter reflect broader socio-economic contexts ecosys...

This paper presents a smart sensor dashboard for digital twin of manufacturing workshop. We described the development followed by three user studies on visualization and interaction aspects dashboard. The first two evaluated ocular parameters users’ response different 2D 3D graphs rendered screen VR headset. bar chart found to generate most accurate in both case. third study recreated Fitts’ La...