Faced with fierce market competition, the life cycle of computer products is shorter than other products which caused the supply and demand changing quickly. If the PC assembly industries still adopted ERP for material planning, it cannot response to customer’s demands swiftly. Therefore, it is necessary to adopt the advanced planning and scheduling (APS) system. The goal of APS is to solve a c...

Nurses working in hospitals with paper-based systems often face the challenge of inefficiency in providing quality nursing care. Two areas of inefficiency are shift-to-shift communication among nurses and access to information related to patient care. An integrated IT system, consisting of Pocket PCs and a desktop PC interfaced to a hospital’s mainframe system, was developed. The goal was to us...

Students use computer software to accomplish many tasks that are part of their daily routines. This paper describes an innovative approach to teaching an introductory technology course in which students who had some previous experience expanded their knowledge by interacting with different types of software applications, and by analyzing their roles in relationship to those applications. Studen...

Introduction We live in a time of change in the scholarly journal industry. This change predates the arrival of electronic publishing, but the increase in new technologies has accelerated many of its aspects. Indeed, many of the latest advances in e-journals have only been made possible by the development and adoption of new technologies such as multimedia personal computers, the Internet and W...

This paper describes the design of a perceptual user interface for controlling a flying cartoon-animated dragon in QuiQui's Giant Bounce, a physically and vocally interactive computer game for 4 to 9 years old children. The dragon mimics the user's movements and breathes fire when the user shouts. The game works on a PC computer equipped with practically any lowcost microphone and webcam. It is...

As commodity microprocessors and networks reach performance levels comparable to those used in massively parallel processors, clusters of symmetric multiprocessors are starting to be called the supercomputers of tomorrow. At the low-end of this technology are the clusters of SMP PCs, usually based on Pentium Pro or Pentium II processors. Many groups in the academia and in the industry are setti...

Word und Co. bestimmen weltweit mit, was heute Schreiben heißt. So selbstverständlich Textverarbeitung am Personal Computer inzwischen aber ist, so umwegig gestaltete sich ihre Vorgeschichte, die bislang ein »blinder Fleck« der Medienwissenschaft geblieben ist. Zwar erscheint der PC in seiner Kopplung von Tastatur und Bildschirm als »bessere Schreibmaschine« – doch Computer sind nicht per se We...

This paper describes a personal agent that guides a visitor through a virtual space by using context, i.e., visitor interaction, in the real world. aContext-awareo guidance in the real world has become an increasingly important research demand since the advent of small and powerful palmtop computers, or PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), that can obtain useful information about objects in the ...

Two tourist guides are described. One supports a virtual tour through an archaeological site, the other a tour through a real exhibition. The first system is based on the 3D reconstruction of the ancient city of Sagalassos. A virtual guide, represented by an animated mask can be given commands using natural speech. Through its expressions the mask makes clear whether the questions have been und...