A spate of legislations prohibiting cigarette smoking in enclosed public spaces, mainly on grounds of public health protection, recently swept across cities around the world. This is in tandem with a raft of increasingly restrictive national laws that emerged on the back of the ratification of the WHO Framework for Tobacco Control by more than one 168 countries in 2005. The central debate on th...

The relationship between real and virtual spaces has produced a new urbanity, extending from post modernity, deconstructivism to super modernity. By creating virtual metaphors and mental maps of different spatial layers within post modern cities, public spaces are experienced as sequential images and overlapping layers of events as they emerge. An urban experiment is introduced that proposes a ...

In this workshop we will explore how the experience of smart conference rooms can be broadened to include different contexts and media such as context-aware mobile systems, personal and professional videoconferencing, virtual worlds, and social software. How should the technologies behind conference room systems reflect the rapidly changing expectations around personal devices and social online...

In the UK and in many other countries, lack of support for disabled entrepreneurs is an economic, cultural, societal issue. This because while belong to contribute public spaces, there are often barriers their full engagement local economy. Where interaction well established, such add cultural richness places, personal well-being economically by wealth creation. The goal study identify what can...

The deployment of robots in dynamic, complex and uncertain environments populated by people is gaining more and more attention, from both research and application perspectives. The new challenge for the near future is to deploy intelligent social robots in public spaces to make easier and safer the use of these spaces. In this paper, we provide an overview of the COACHES project which addresses...

This paper proposes a new block cipher termed as “Modular Arithmetic based Block Cipher with Varying Key-Spaces (MABCVK)” that uses private key-spaces of varying lengths to encrypt data files. There is a simple but intelligent use of theory of modular arithmetic in the scheme of the cipher. Based on observed implementation of the proposed cipher on a set of real data files of several types, all...