HCIS

Monitoring wellbeing and stress is one of the problems covered by ambient intelligence, as stress is a significant cause of human illnesses directly affecting our emotional state. The primary aim was …

Mohannad Babli^*, Jaime A Rincon, Eva Onaindia, Carlos Carrascosa, and Vicente Julian

Nowadays, the massive use of social media provides useful unstructured knowledge that can be used to enhance the efficacy of online brand marketing campaigns. The unstructured nature of social media c…

Carlo Blundo¹, Carmen De Maio^2,*, Mimmo Parente¹, and Luisa Siniscalchi³

The current importance of digital competence makes it essential to enable people with disabilities to use digital devices and applications and to automatically adapt site interactions to their needs. …

AinhoaYera^1,*, Iñigo Perona¹, Olatz Arbelaitz², Javier Muguerza², J. Eduardo Pérez², and Xabier Valencia³

Global illumination can achieve photorealistic rendering of mobile virtual reality (VR), and can naturally express shadows, caustics, and color bleeding, ultimatelyenhancing users’ sense of immersion …

SeongKi Kim¹ and ManKyu Sung^2,*

Product customization can not only meet customers’ needs but also increase the market competitiveness of corporations and businesses. Effective product customization requires customers’ participation …

Dong Zeng^1,2, Mao-en He^1,*, Zhuan Zhou³, and Chaogang Tang⁴

Educational applications provide engaging learning experiencesparticularly for children, but their visual nature limits their usefulness and accessibility for the visually impaired (VI). By utilizing …

AbirBenabid Najjar^1,*, Asma Alhussayen¹, and Rabia Jafri²

Frequent pattern (FP) mining is useful for deriving meaningful information from data. Among related methods, FP-growth is one of the most widely used algorithms but has time and physical restrictions …

Jeong-Hoon Lee^*

Today, the continuous deployment of sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT) has boosted the amount of manufacturing data in the smart city. Factories are rapidly becoming more interconnected in the w…

Sushil Kumar Singh¹, Abir EL Azzaoui¹, Tae Woo Kim1, Yi Pan², and Jong Hyuk Park^1,*

Visual question answering (VQA)aims to output a natural language answer based on a picture and a related question in order to achieve machine language understanding. Numerous approaches have been prop…

Danyang Cao^1,2,*, Xu Ren¹, Menggui Zhu¹, and Wei Song³

Abstract OpenStreetMap is a volunteered geographic information system aimed at creating a free editable map of the world. One of the central elements of OpenStreetMap is the point-of-interest (POI). …

Jesús M. Almendros-Jiménez, Antonio Becerra-Terón, and Manuel Torres^*

Abstract Although the popularity of server virtualization technology has facilitated the development of numerous applications, the storage input/output performance and the high availability of the ba…

Chen-Kun Tsung¹, Chao-Tung Yang^2,*, Rajiv Ranjan³, Yong-Lun Chen⁴, and Jean-Huei Ou⁴

User interest will drift with the change of context, cognitive psychology, and so on, which leads to inaccurate recommendation. In order to address this issue and the traditional recommendation proble…

Feipeng Guo^1,2 and Qibei Lu^3,4,*

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of interrelated smart devices that share sensing data over networks. Heterogeneous data are collected, shared, and analyzed through the interconnection of mass…

Minkyung Kim¹, Kangseok Kim^2,3 and Jai-Hoon Kim^3,*

The rapidly increasing number of confirmed cases and extremely large amounts of medical resources about coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic are enriching the COVID-19 domain knowledge bases. …

Fei Hao ^1,2 and Doo-Soon Park^3,*

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) integrate cyberspace with the physical world through a network of interrelated elements, such as sensors and actuators, and computational engines. A CPS must also have the…

Svetlana Kim and YongIk Yoon^*