Large and complex information requires arbitrarily extensive displays for an exact, comprehensive visualization. This paper introduces a technique, time-multiplexing, for presenting such information that concentrates on the efficient management of time for a typical display. Timemultiplexing complements classical approaches, which are graphics oriented and make use of spatial and perceptual fea...

In this poster we present a study exploring the benefits of using audio guides instead of human tour guides to foster children’s engagement and learning outcomes during their visit to a natural science museum. We conducted an experiment in a museum with 25 children from a school (9-10 years old) in order to discover if there was any effect of the usage of audio guides regarding children’s engag...

This software package provides algorithms for analysis and design of saturation avoiding control systems. The design of linear controllers for linear, possibly multivariable or uncertain, plants is considered. To avoid a conservative design, the external signals are hard bounded in amplitude and rate. During the example sessions, only reference signals are considered as external signals, but th...

This research investigates the feasibility of applying a guaranteed-accuracy heuristic learning algorithm to address the traveling salesman problem. The research focuses on tour construction. The advantage of tour construction heuristic is its simplicity in concept. However, tour construction heuristic often results in a sub-optimal solution and the tour often needs to be improved after it is b...

An analyzing method of circular tour activity based on GPS in order to realize suitable tourism promotion for current tourism is given in our paper. This paper focuses on circular tour activity with rent-a-car. Our method concerns basic activity information which includes the information about destinations and movements on circular tour, based on GPS log. The analysis for circular tour activity...

In this work, we present a path-planning method for the Mobile Data Collector (MDC) in a wireless sensor network (WSN). In our method, a tour for the MDC is generated such that the latency of delivering data to the sink is reduced. We show that the TSP tour covers all the nodes of the WSN. However, the latency for the TSP tour may be prohibitively high for delay-sensitive real-time WSNs. We red...

Tourists often have a hard time making their tour plans, especially when they are visiting a large city on a tight schedule. To relieve tourists from such difficulty, a computer-aided interactive tour planning system, called CT-Planner2, was developed. This system models a tourist advisor who makes tour plans customized for individual tourists. Guided by an interactive agent, each user of this ...

Purpose: Consideration of consumer opinion is a key success factor when it comes to developing a new product. However, businesses may lack suitable methods for this, and designers may lack practical training, with both situations meaning that firms are unable to precisely adopt consumer opinions. Moreover, consumer cognitions for a product are widely regarded as changeable and abstract. It is w...