Technologies can have harmful effects on users’ psychological health, on society, and on the environment. “Technology traps” arise when users and societies become stuck with technologies and the harmful consequences produced by these technologies. In this paper, the authors describe five technology traps: incompetence, self-miscontrol, misbehavior, techno-centrism, and environmental degradation...

38 Adoption of Constrained Application Protocol: A Techno-Economic Perspective Tapio Levä, Department of Communications and Networking, Aalto University, Aalto, Finland Mahya Ilaghi, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Aalto University, Aalto, Finland Vilen Looga, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Aalto University, Aalto, Finland Miika Komu, Ericsson Research, Jorvas, ...

Techno-langue is the French National Program on HLT supported by the French ministries in charge of Research, Industry and Culture. It addresses four action lines: creating basic language and software resources, organizing evaluation campaigns, participating in the standardization process and creating a Web Portal for disseminating information and surveys to a large audience. This paper present...

I NATVIG. J.E., HASEN, s., and DE-BRITO, 1.: ‘Speech processing in the pan-European digital mobile radio system (GSM) System overview’. IEEE Glohcom’89, Dallas, Texas, Nov. 1989, pp. 10601064 2 SOLTAN. o.A.: ‘Survey about existing and future PLMNs’. Internal report no. 2/91 EEAP Dept., Aston University, March 1991 3 HODGES. M.R.L. : ‘The GSM radio interface’, British Telecom Techno/. J . , 1990...

1) Bio-oriented Technology Research Advancement Institution, Omiya, Saitama 331-8537, Japan 2) Institute of the Society for Techno-Innovation of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, 446-1 Ippaizuka, Kamiyokoba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0854, Japan 3) National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, 2-1-2 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8602, Japan 4) Present address: Shanghai Institute of Plant Physi...

Under clean and green revolution programme, an urgent need has been felt to develop mitigation devices and pollution control instruments. Through this paper, discussion has been made on pollution thrust emanating in atmosphere from stacks and its control through indigenous technology and control instruments developed in India to meet the techno-economical needs of country. Main emphasis has bee...

National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305–8602, Japan (T.M., T.T., H.S., N.A., K.H., T.I.); Institute of Society for Techno-Innovation of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305–0854, Japan (H.K., K.Ku., A.K., K.Ka., M.Y., H.I.); Hitachi Government and Public Corporation System Engineering, Ltd., Koto, Tokyo 135–8633, Japan (N.F.); and Institute of P...

SUMMARY Outside the workplace, technologies support a new range of activities such as exploring, wondering, loving, and worshipping. Yet, we know little about how individuals appropriate technology to support these activities. Understanding this becomes more pressing as computing's presence increases in daily life. For my dissertation, I am investigating use of ICTs to support a subset of these...

Tao Liu,1,2 Kenneth E. Lee,3 and Qi Jie Wang1,2,4,* 1School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Ave., Singapore, 639798 2CINTRA CNRS/NTU/THALES, UMI 3288, Research Techno Plaza, 50 Nanyang Drive, Border X Block, Level 6, Singapore, 637553 3Temasek Laboratories, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Ave, Singapore, 639798 4School of Physica...

Differentiated Services has been proposed architecture is able to offer a range of diff achieve the goal, DiffServ must though be sup used to control and engineer the network. In t role. This document focuses on Traffic Engin but provides also some insight on techniques time. The document is targeted to technical service IP networks and its main objective configuring and dimensioning these netw...