The different usage of public places and spaces in urban areas is the focus of this study. It concentrates on the use of public places and spaces in Wong Ah Fook located in Johor Bahro city centre. The study is going to examine the way that different people utilize public places and spaces to examine how social interactions vary by age, gender or place. Moreover, this study investigates on the ...

Robotics is undergoing a change. While in the past, robots were predominately employed for assembly and transportation purposes in settings like factory floors, a new generation of service robot has begun to emerge, designed to assist people in everyday life [8, 16, 21, 23]. This raises the question as to what physical shape these robots should take, and how they should behave. In mobile roboti...

INTRODUCTION Exposure to second-hand smoke (SHS) is a serious public health concern. The Indian smoke-free legislation 'Prohibition of Smoking in Public Places Rules, 2008' prohibits smoking in public places, including workplaces. OBJECTIVE To measure the status of compliance to legal provisions that protects the public against harms of SHS exposure, identifies the potential areas of violatio...

In realistic looking game environments it is important that virtual characters behave naturally. Our goal is to produce naturally looking gaze behavior for animated agents and avatars that are simply idling. We studied people standing and waiting, as well as people walking down a shopping street. From our observations we built a demo with the CADIA Populus multi-agent social simulation platform.

We have built a network, called the CHOICE network, which globally authenticates users and then securely connects them to the Internet via a high-speed local area wireless network. Our network provides easy-to-use, individualcentric, service-oriented wireless Internet access in places other than the traditional corporate offices and homes. Our architecture is hardware and protocol agnostic and ...

Designing context-aware mobile information systems for supporting sociality requires a solid understanding of the users’ context, situated interactions, and the interplay between the two. Currently such understanding is lacking in the field of HCI research and is sought after by several authors. Addressing this gap we conducted a field study of small groups socialising in a public place. Based ...