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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Smart technologies"”.
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Recovering the Sight to blind People in indoor Environments with smart Technologies
… of blind people rehabilitation through assistive technologies. In overall terms, the basic and principal needs that a blind individual might be concerned with can be confined to two components, namely (i) navigation/ obstacle avoidance, and (ii) object recognition. Having a close look at the …
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How can smart technologies be applied by smallholder farmers for increased productivity and sustained livelihoods?
… impact agricultural productivity. The use of smart technologies in farming is mainly present among largescale commercial farms, with minimal representation in the smallholder farming sector. On the other hand, a substantial amount of food in developing countries is produced by small scale …
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Ecological design and smart landscapes: Boosting the connection between scientific findings and design approaches with smart technologies
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Smart technologies and beyond: exploring how a smart band can assist in monitoring children’s independent mobility & well-being
… for children (iii) Emotions of a child (iv) Smart Technologies and (v) Children’s smart wearables. This will allow a review of the problem in detail and how technology can help the health sector, especially for children. The deliverable of this study is to recommend a suitable smart band …
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Improving quality of life through smart public transport: The interplay of technological and non-technological approaches in London and Tehran
… car use and its adverse effects in cities. While smart technologies offer opportunities to improve public transport by enhancing comfort, reliability, safety, accessibility, and affordability, the integration of these technologies is shaped by both technological and non-technological …
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Healthcare Systems : three studies of patient management and policy change
… ''technology comfort" measures and a "Smartphone usage" scale, to evaluate if patients would be able to use smart technologies for their disease self-management. This paper not only suggests that patients with diabetes could potentially benefit from using existing advanced technologies, …
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Refusing White Privacy
… of privacy ushered in by allegedly non-racial smart technologies (a preoccupation in WDSS) is underwritten by racializing technologies from the Antebellum era to the present.</p>
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Trust in human or machine? Exploring the effect of anthropomorphic cues on user self-disclosure toward a chatbot
Smart technologies nowadays have more humanlike features (name, voice, personality, etc.). They interact with users more naturally and closely, collecting user data for further service. In a typical context, this study tests how anthropomorphic cues of a health service chatbot will influence users’ …
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Saving water in schools: evidence on the use of smart water meters and behavioural insights
… usage: detailed water usage data feedback from smart meters, and an interschool competition. Interventions reduced water usage in these schools by 15 to 26%. The information feedback was found to be more effective in reducing night time water use, indicating better water usage by the staff, …
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Spatial user interface : augmenting human sensibilities in a domestic kitchen
… domestic kitchen is used as a domain to place smart technologies and to study visual attention,multi-tasking, food-preparation and disruptiveness. Human perception in visually complex environments can be significantly enhanced by overlaying intuitive, immersive and attentive displays. Placing …
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Smart cities : concepts, perceptions and lessons for planners
… appears to be a visible trend in the use of the "smart" prefix. For example, cities are branding themselves as, or striving to become "smart" cities. Planners and policy-makers espouse "smart growth". Infrastructure planning involves "smart grids" for energy, "smart networks" for information and …
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Finite Element Modelling and Experimental Characterisation of Auricle Mechanics for Earable Design
… are rapidly evolving into the next generation of smart technologies with the potential to transform daily life. Among these, auricle-mounted “earables” are emerging as a promising platform for neural interfaces, leveraging the ear’s anatomical accessibility, social acceptability, and structural …
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Factors influencing the decision to transition from Multi-Channel to Omni-Channel – A Banking Perspective
… new business models, or trying to gain access to smart technologies for financial benefit? This dissertation presents research findings into the investigation of factors that influence the organisational decision to transition from Multi-Channel to Omni-Channel banking. A positivist case study …
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Instrumentalization in the Public Smart Bikeshare Sector
This thesis is concerned with understanding how smart technologies are conceived, created and implemented, and explores the ways these processes are shaped by historical, geo-political, economic and technical contexts. At its core the thesis is concerned with understanding how technical citizenship …
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Assessing the impacts of climate change and adaptation strategies on smallholder farming in the Vhembe District, South Africa
… investment in irrigation schemes and other smart technologies that integrate indigenous knowledge systems and modern scientific knowledge to enhance crop production.
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Investigation of the smart cities strategies within the United Kingdom
The Smart City (SC) concept has emerged as an innovative response to the challenges and opportunities faced by cities around the world. However, despite many attempts to implement various strategies, many organisations within the United Kingdom still encounter difficulties embedding the smart city …
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Rethinking Smart Home Design: Integrating Architectural Perspectives and Technologically-driven Design Thinking within a Framework
Smart homes, equipped with sensing, actuation, communication, and computation capabilities, enable automation and adaptation according to the occupants' needs. These capabilities work together to build holistic spatial and living experiences for the occupants. Smart technologies significantly …
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Incorporating human behaviour in an agent based model of technology adoption in the transition to a smart grid
… schemes to manage such generation is the smart grid, the transition to which forms the context for this research. The aim is to investigate the effect of certain psychological and social influences on the adoption of technology necessary to enable smart grids, in order to understand the …
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