This paper reports some experiments which assess the potential use of a footstep biometric verification system for a smart home environment. We present a semi-automatic capture system and report results on a database with independent development and evaluation datasets comprised of more than 3500 footsteps collected from 55 persons. We present an optimisation of geometric and holistic feature e...

The changing lifestyle, urbanization, and depletion of non-renewable resources to match the ever-increasing energy demand are causing a pessimistic impact on environment. cities responsible for 75% carbon emissions about 60-80% consumption globally, precarious situation because they only constitute 3% earth’s land. Urbanization makes vulnerable due climatic conditions possibilities natural dese...

This paper presents an inter-domain context-of-use analysis which addresses the challenge posed by the constantly increasing complexity of the human-computer interface in the work environment of control room operators. The data gathered is taken as a basis to propose new ways of optimizing the operators' work environment as a “holistic workspace”. New concepts are introduced which give equal co...

In present era of ubiquitous computing environment, as the plethora of modern digital artefacts and services resulting due to emergence and evolution of new-fangled kind of communication and computation formats comes increasingly into play in everyday practice and experience virtually almost for every type of activity, the people‟s requirement and aspiration to be an active part of this global ...

In this paper, we present a holistic approach to enable mobile robots using video projection in a situation aware and dynamic way. Therefore, we show how to autonomously detect wall segments that are suitable to be used as projection target in a dynamic environment. We derive several quality measures to score the wall segments found in the local environment and show how these scores can be used...

Businesses may be described as holistic systems of interacting processes. Beer’s Viable System Model is a complete formulation of such a set of processes necessary for a business to be sustainable in a volatile, changing environment. The Viable System Model can be used to describe a process architecture for the IT capabilities required to support a sustainable business. This paper explores this...

A great deal of research works in the field information systems security has been based on a positivist paradigm. Applying the reductionism concept of the positivist paradigm for information security means missing the bigger picture and thus, the lack of holism which could be one of the reasons why security is still overlooked, comes as an afterthought or perceived from a purely technical dimen...