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{"title":"Design Thinking Approach for the Development of Theme Park Application","authors":"Tinnaporn Srisombut,&nbsp;Supamas Thamlersak,&nbsp;Phattharaporn Chaitantipong,&nbsp;Thitirat Siriborvornratanakul","doi":"10.1007/s41133-021-00054-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41133-021-00054-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Theme entertainment businesses rely very much on providing their visitors with the most memorable experiences. To do so, top operators have put a considerable amount of effort and investment in their facilities and activities in their parks. However, after a customer interview, several pain points are still found such as long toilet queues, finding available parking lots, being unable to find the parked car, and no real-time thrill ride information/status. Similar with other domains in the tourism market, most of these problems are easy to solve with the help of having a smartphone application that delivers such information right to the customer’s hands. This study outlines the development process of a theme park application based on a design thinking approach. Our MVP prototypes have obtained good feedback from potential users in both qualitative and quantitative usability tests.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100147,"journal":{"name":"Augmented Human Research","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50024605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Study on Student Perception Towards Online Education During Covid-19 Crisis","authors":"P. Nishitha,&nbsp;Digvijay Pandey","doi":"10.1007/s41133-021-00055-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41133-021-00055-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>At the end of December 2019, the pandemic COVID-19 disease emerged in Wuhan city of China. It spread rapidly and affects other parts of China. To control the risk of further spread of disease the authorities in Wuhan locked down the city on 23 January 2020. The COVID-19 cases were detected in several other countries within a few weeks, and it became a global threat. On 6th June 2020, 115,942 active COVID-19 cases exist in India. To break the chain of transmission of infectious disease, the educational institutions are closed. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all schools/colleges/universities have postponed or cancelled all campus events such as examinations, workshops, conferences, admissions and other activities. The main objective of this study is to know the impact of COVID-19 on education, to study the perception of students towards online education during COVID-19 crisis and to study the student perception towards COVID-19 disease. The data are collected by structured questionnaire from 100 students in Tirupati city. The study includes both primary and secondary data. The convenient sampling method is used to collect data. Results are summarized using SPSS software and conclusion drawn that most of the respondents are satisfied towards online education and most of the students want to continue the online education in future also. The main problem facing by the students is network connectivity. In Tirupati, 45% of the colleges are using Canvas Instructure for online classes. To build young minds in the present crisis, an effective and well-rounded educational practice is needed. It will help students to improve their skills that will drive their productivity, employability, health and well-being in the decades to come and ensure the overall progress of India.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100147,"journal":{"name":"Augmented Human Research","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50016715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Defining Smart Glasses: A Rapid Review of State-of-the-Art Perspectives and Future Challenges From a Social Sciences’ Perspective","authors":"Niek Zuidhof,&nbsp;Somaya Ben Allouch,&nbsp;Oscar Peters,&nbsp;Peter-Paul Verbeek","doi":"10.1007/s41133-021-00053-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41133-021-00053-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Over recent decades smart glasses have gained increased attention in both the research arena and recently also in the consumer market, even though there is not yet a clear definition of what exactly smart glasses entail and underexposed perspectives are not represented. This study used a rapid review to assess the current understanding of smart glasses with the aim of defining them. Searches were performed across six databases, followed-up by a content-based evaluation of title and abstract. A total set of 14 relevant publications was identified to help arrive at a definition and characteristics of smart glasses. As a result, it was observed in both the research literature and in the public domain that many different names are used for smart glasses, and that in some cases there is unclarity about what constitute smart glasses. Therefore, an adapted definition of smart glasses is developed based on the existing original rationale of ubiquitous computing and taking the current state-of-the-art knowledge into account. This article provides an overview of and suggestion for defining smart glasses from a social sciences’ perspective to better inform researchers, developers, designers and companies who are involved in the design, development, research of smart glasses.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100147,"journal":{"name":"Augmented Human Research","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s41133-021-00053-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50057992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Deep Learning and Particle Swarm Optimisation-Based Techniques for Visually Impaired Humans' Text Recognition and Identification","authors":"Binay Kumar Pandey,&nbsp;Digvijay Pandey,&nbsp;Subodh Wariya,&nbsp;Gaurav Aggarwal,&nbsp;Rahul Rastogi","doi":"10.1007/s41133-021-00051-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41133-021-00051-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Blind people can benefit greatly from a system capable of localising and reading comprehension text embedded in natural scenes and providing useful information that boosts their self-esteem and autonomy in everyday situations. Regardless of the fact that existing optical character recognition programmes seem to be quick and effective, the majority of them are not able to correctly recognise text embedded in usual panorama images. The methodology described in this paper is to localise textual image regions and pre-process them using the naïve Bayesian algorithm. A weighted reading technique is used to generate the correct text data from the complicated image regions. Usually, images hold some disturbance as a result of the fact that filtration is proposed during the early pre-processing step. To restore the image's quality, the input image is processed employing gradient and contrast image methods. Following that, the contrast of the source images would be enhanced using an adaptive image map. The stroke width transform, Gabor’s transform, and weighted naïve Bayesian classifier methodologies have been used in complicated degraded images to segment, feature extraction, and detect textual and non-textual elements. Finally, to identify categorised textual data, the confluence of deep neural networks and particle swarm optimisation is being used. The text in the image is transformed into an acoustic output after identification. The dataset IIIT5K is used for the development portion, and the performance of the suggested come up is evaluated using parameters such as accuracy, recall, precision, and F1-score.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100147,"journal":{"name":"Augmented Human Research","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50054132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Influence of Tourists Satisfaction on Future Behavioral Intentions with Special Reference to Desert Triangle of Rajasthan","authors":"Arpit Saxena,&nbsp;Naveen Kumar Sharma,&nbsp;Digvijay Pandey,&nbsp;Binay Kumar Pandey","doi":"10.1007/s41133-021-00052-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41133-021-00052-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Tourism is the main source of economic growth and a creator of employment of various kinds. The Rajasthan state got the fifth rank in the top 10 tourist destinations among domestic tourism ranks. The main inflection of this paper is to investigate the influence of tourist satisfaction of international tourists on future behavioral intentions with special reference to the desert triangle of Rajasthan. The holiday satisfaction model was used to construct the survey method applied in this study. According to the findings, tourist holiday satisfaction is particularly high for attraction qualities in numerous tourist sites in Rajasthan's desert triangle. The HOLSAT model was used to calculate the average mean of experience and expectation in this study, and the results show that the attributes described as attractions, accessibility and activities components are those that foreign visitors value the most. International tourists, on the other hand, give the lowest scores to qualities classed under amenities and accommodation components, indicating that international tourism has a long way to go.Thus, the tourism sector will need to guide human resources to curate and deliver these experiences.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100147,"journal":{"name":"Augmented Human Research","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s41133-021-00052-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50050431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Perceived Stress among School Students in Distance Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Gaza Strip, Palestine","authors":"Eqbal Radwan,&nbsp;Afnan Radwan,&nbsp;Walaa Radwan,&nbsp;Digvijay Pandey","doi":"10.1007/s41133-021-00050-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41133-021-00050-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The rapid outbreak of COVID-19 is a global health problem that has a significant effect on the educational systems. Therefore, students shifted to distance learning through the digital platform. Since COVID-19 has consequences on mental health, the present study examined the perceived stress level in school students in distance learning during the COVID-19 period. A cross-sectional study of a sample consisting of 385 school students evaluated the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) and their concerns and emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results showed that the mean value of the total PSS scores was 19.50 ± 9.28. About 48.6% of students had moderate stress, 28.8% had low stress, and 22.6% had high stress. Significant associations were found between the level of stress and demographic variables: age, gender, educational level, and place of residence. Female students were significantly higher than the male students in the mean score of perceived stress level (20.14 versus 18.13; <i>p</i>-value = 0.018). Females were more likely (53.4%) to have moderate stress than males (38.2%) (<i>p</i> = 0.019). The students aged 15–18 years were significantly higher than those aged 11–14 years in the mean score of perceived stress level (22.64 versus 17.24, respectively; <i>p</i>-value &lt; 0.001). The students aged 15–18 years were also more likely (<i>n</i> = 536, 96.4%) to had high levels of stress than the younger students (<i>p</i> &lt; 0.001). The results showed that secondary school students were significantly higher than primary school students in the mean score of perceived stress level (23.75 versus 16.76, respectively; <i>p</i> &lt; 0.001). Secondary students were also more likely (43.0%) to have high stress than primary students (9.4%) (<i>p</i> &lt; 0.001). Students who live in the Rafah governorate had a significantly lowest mean score of perceived stress level when compared to other counterparts (<i>p</i>-value = 0.005). Gender (<i>β</i> = − 0.282, <i>P</i> &lt; 0.001), age (<i>β</i> = − 0.379, <i>P</i> = 0.004), place of residence (<i>β</i> = − 0.096, <i>P</i> = 0.034), and educational level (<i>β</i> = 0.845, <i>P</i> &lt; 0.001) were predictors of perceived stress. The results revealed moderate to high levels of stress in school students in the Gaza Strip during schools closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The prevalence of psychological distress attributed to suddenly shifted from traditional learning to distance learning. The incorporation of stress management programs and online counselling will minimize stress and enhance the mental health of school students during distance learning.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100147,"journal":{"name":"Augmented Human Research","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50044759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A New Hybrid Optimization Technique for Scheduling of Periodic and Non-periodic Tasks","authors":"Harendra Kumar,&nbsp;Isha Tyagi","doi":"10.1007/s41133-021-00049-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41133-021-00049-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article addresses a renowned issue of allocating periodic tasks to a network of heterogeneous processors in distributed computing systems (DCS) subject to timing constraints, tasks precedence, and arbitrary communication among them, in order to lessen the overall busy time whereas guaranteeing the tasks deadlines. A new hybrid optimization (NHO) technique is introduced, a fusion of k-mean clustering (KMC) and Branch-and-Bound (B&amp;B) method for reducing overall normalized busy time (NSBT) of the system. This technique is stationed on B&amp;B method in which each branch grants scheduling solution. K-mean clustering (KMC) technique has been utilized to reduce the complexity of B&amp;B technique by pruning the branches those do not lead feasible solution. A specialized case of non-periodic tasks allocation issue is also studied in this work. The problem is intractable in nature. Finally, a demonstrative example and comparison with some computational experiences are presented. Experimental results reveal that proposed technique achieves better proficiency than other existing techniques in literature. This model is advisable for arbitrary number of processors and tasks.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100147,"journal":{"name":"Augmented Human Research","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50059146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact of SARS-CoV-2 in Online Education, Predicting and Contrasting Mental Stress of Young Students: A Machine Learning Approach","authors":"K. Parthiban,&nbsp;Digvijay Pandey,&nbsp;Binay Kumar Pandey","doi":"10.1007/s41133-021-00048-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41133-021-00048-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The nation has already had to contend with such a major public health issue when this COVID-19 disease was propagated in March 2020. The corona's propagation does have an effect on all areas of people's lives. The hostile effect on education systems throughout all locations is indeed a diverse expansion impact. A complete shutdown keeps adding fresh problems for students to learn and also for educators to effectively manage the class, likely to result in the conversion of such an offline education system into a virtual class. This study investigated and described various online learning platforms, as well as teaching resource distribution technology and modern technologies used to ensure that students can study. Overall, this relates to channels that can be used to create a confidential environment in order to prevent copying in online tests. This also outlines so many difficulties in managing online teaching methods, like learners' perceptions of e-learning being more traumatic and having a negative impact on general wellbeing and social relationships. So, a technique has been proposed to provide learners with a superior online classroom teaching experience, allowing the online classroom to be as good as, if not better than, a single online classroom. This study focused on daily teaching methods that employ online learning supported by a machine teaching approach to provide an individual with a relevant stress-free solution.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100147,"journal":{"name":"Augmented Human Research","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s41133-021-00048-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50015136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Developing Professional Capacity of Preschool Teachers in Mountainous Areas to Meet the Requirements of Augmented Education Innovation 4.0","authors":"Ho Sy Hung,&nbsp;Digvijay Pandey","doi":"10.1007/s41133-021-00047-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41133-021-00047-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The professional capacity of preschool teachers is a decisive factor for the quality of child care and early education for children. However, many preschool teachers teaching in disadvantaged areas have not yet responded to the increasing demands of society and educational innovation. Therefore, developing educators’ competencies in disadvantaged areas is an important task in education renovation. This article investigates the status of the professional competencies of preschool teachers in disadvantaged and mountainous areas to find out the advantages and disadvantages in implementing educational innovation. The main method is the quantitative research method entailing observation, questionnaire investigation and in-depth interviews with 250 early childhood educators and 30 administrators. Research results have revealed that the professional capacity of teachers in mountainous areas has many limitations, especially the ability to apply information technology and develop their own professional skills. Besides, research also pointed out a number of factors affecting the professional capacity development of preschool teachers. This research result is the foundation for improving professional competencies for preschool teachers in educational innovation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100147,"journal":{"name":"Augmented Human Research","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s41133-021-00047-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50008515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Application of EEG Time-Varying Networks in the Evaluation of Dynamic Functional Brain Networks","authors":"Asif Hasan,&nbsp;Digvijay Pandey,&nbsp;Azizuddin Khan","doi":"10.1007/s41133-021-00046-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41133-021-00046-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The variability that occurs in spontaneous network communication has brought about increased attention in the area of study that is centered on analytical approaches and models aimed at addressing the shorter timescales conceivable with dynamic functional networks. As the shifts in functional connectivity have been immense in the quantification of task performance in the cognitive domain so has the usefulness in the clinical setting been predicted. More so, the analysis of dynamic functional connections can be of considerable clinical relevance as had been observed in the studies of pathologies such as schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease mild cognitive impairment. The evaluation of dynamic functional connectivity is however far from being perfect. Though functional magnetic resonance, imaging which has been vastly employed in evaluating neural communication in the human brain, does not appear to be efficient in measuring neuronal dynamics, and this could be down to the variability in sampling, physiological, noise, and head motion that usually accompany fMRI. This is where EEG, despite its limited spatial resolution, has found significance owing to the delivery of temporal resolution which is higher in measuring the time-varying relationships feasible in the rhythmic patterns of neural activity.</p><p>In this paper, we shall aim at reviewing the strides that have been made in the efforts to develop an effective technique for quantifying the transitions in functional connectivity that take place over specific timescales.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100147,"journal":{"name":"Augmented Human Research","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s41133-021-00046-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50020888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}