Kieran Woodward, Eiman Kanjo, David J. Brown, T. M. McGinnity, Gordon Harold
{"title":"In the hands of users with intellectual disabilities: co-designing tangible user interfaces for mental wellbeing","authors":"Kieran Woodward, Eiman Kanjo, David J. Brown, T. M. McGinnity, Gordon Harold","doi":"10.1007/s00779-023-01752-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-023-01752-x","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Involving and engaging people with intellectual disabilities on issues relating to their mental wellbeing is essential if relevant tools and solutions are to be developed. This research explores how inclusive and participatory co-design techniques and principles can be used to engage people with intellectual disabilities in designing innovations in mental wellbeing tangible technologies. In particular, individuals with intellectual disabilities participated in a co-design process via a series of workshops and focus groups to design tangible interfaces for mental wellbeing as their wellbeing challenges are often diagnostically overshadowed. The workshops helped participants explore new technologies, including sensors and feedback mechanisms that can help monitor and potentially improve mental wellbeing. The adopted co-design approach resulted in a range of effective and suitable interfaces being developed for varying ages.","PeriodicalId":54628,"journal":{"name":"Personal and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135696380","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":"Perceptive vs reflective: spectator interpretation of multimodal artworks","authors":"Oliver Bramah, Sue Adams, Fabio Morreale","doi":"10.1007/s00779-023-01744-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-023-01744-x","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article presents an empirical investigation into spectator interpretation of multimodal artworks. Specifically, this article explores perception of the artwork in two different sensorial modalities — sight and sound — and the effect of their interaction. We selected four abstract paintings and created four acousmatic musical pieces that were composed to reflect the content of the artwork. We then ran a between-subjects experimental study in three conditions: visual only, music only, and a combination of both. A total of 48 participants completed an online survey in which they were asked to report their interpretations of the shown artworks. Following a thematic analysis on the collected data, we clustered participants’ interpretation into two main categories: reflective and perceptive . The combination increased spectators’ attention to the artworks, affected the temporality of the artworks, and created richer understandings of the multimodal works. The study provides knowledge for the inclusion of multimodal experiences in the presentation of art expanding the possibilities for inter-sensory dialogue in the arts.","PeriodicalId":54628,"journal":{"name":"Personal and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134934968","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}
Mohammad A. R. Abdeen, Siham Farrag, Mohamed Benaida, Tarek Sheltami, Youssef El-Hansali
{"title":"VISSIM calibration and validation of urban traffic: a case study Al-Madinah City","authors":"Mohammad A. R. Abdeen, Siham Farrag, Mohamed Benaida, Tarek Sheltami, Youssef El-Hansali","doi":"10.1007/s00779-023-01738-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-023-01738-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54628,"journal":{"name":"Personal and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135457818","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}
Iftikhar Hussain, Davy Janssens, Adel Elomri, Ben Niu
{"title":"A negotiation model of individual matching and zonal-based travel behavior in carpooling","authors":"Iftikhar Hussain, Davy Janssens, Adel Elomri, Ben Niu","doi":"10.1007/s00779-023-01735-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-023-01735-y","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Carpooling is a sustainable and ecologically acceptable transportation mode. Individuals commonly engage in coordination and negotiation processes to find matching partners and typically modify their schedules to enable cooperation. Mutual cooperation between carpooling individuals plays an important role in executing trips. Through cooperation, participants can achieve challenging agreements effectively in a repetitive manner. This paper presents a negotiation mechanism that can match individuals for carpooling using organization and agent-based concepts. It describes a matching model and a carpooling social network. It studies several aspects of multi-zonal individual behavior to identify groups of carpooling candidates. The carpooling social network is simulated on an ongoing basis for each of the following carpooling activities: interaction, negotiation, and trip execution. The interaction process enables communication between individuals within carpooling social groups in order to activate the negotiation process. During the negotiation process, participants typically modify their schedules to support cooperation by considering their personal preferences and constraints. Negotiation leads to matching of individuals based on trip start times, driver selection, detour duration, and carpool group pickup and dropoff sequences. Trip start times are established on travel, social, financial, and schedule-related factors. The carpoolers’ pickup and dropoff sequences that are feasible for an optimal carpool group are projected using specific scoring methods. Carpooling community candidates are recognized via outcomes projected using the FEATHERS activity–based model. The framework is implemented through the Janus multi-agent system.","PeriodicalId":54628,"journal":{"name":"Personal and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135809738","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}
Khalid Ali Al Abri, Nafaa Jabeur, Hana Gharrad, Ansar Ul-Haque Yasar
{"title":"An intelligent divide-and-conquer approach for driving style management","authors":"Khalid Ali Al Abri, Nafaa Jabeur, Hana Gharrad, Ansar Ul-Haque Yasar","doi":"10.1007/s00779-023-01740-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-023-01740-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54628,"journal":{"name":"Personal and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135193976","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}
Muhammad Adnan, Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, Stephane Galland
{"title":"Advances in shared mobility: new models, system optimization algorithms, and smart automated solutions","authors":"Muhammad Adnan, Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, Stephane Galland","doi":"10.1007/s00779-023-01775-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-023-01775-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54628,"journal":{"name":"Personal and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135817043","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}
N. M. A. Huijts, A. Haans, S. Budimir, J. R. J. Fontaine, G. Loukas, A. Bezemskij, A. Oostveen, A. Filippoupolitis, I. Ras, W. A. IJsselsteijn, E. B. Roesch
{"title":"User experiences with simulated cyber-physical attacks on smart home IoT","authors":"N. M. A. Huijts, A. Haans, S. Budimir, J. R. J. Fontaine, G. Loukas, A. Bezemskij, A. Oostveen, A. Filippoupolitis, I. Ras, W. A. IJsselsteijn, E. B. Roesch","doi":"10.1007/s00779-023-01774-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-023-01774-5","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract With the Internet of Things (IoT) becoming increasingly prevalent in people’s homes, new threats to residents are emerging such as the cyber-physical attack, i.e. a cyber-attack with physical consequences. In this study, we aimed to gain insights into how people experience and respond to cyber-physical attacks to their IoT devices. We conducted a naturalistic field experiment and provided 9 Dutch and 7 UK households, totalling 18 and 13 participants respectively, with a number of smart devices for use in their home. After a period of adaptation, simulated attacks were conducted, leading to events of varying noticeability (e.g., the light going on or off once or several times). After informing people simulated attacks had occurred, the attacks were repeated one more time. User experiences were collected through interviews and analysed with thematic analyses. Four relevant themes were identified, namely (1) the awareness of and concern about privacy and security risks was rather low, (2) the simulated attacks made little impression on the participants, (3) the participants had difficulties with correctly recognizing simulated attacks, and (4) when informed about simulated attacks taking place; participants noticed more simulated attacks and presented decision rules for them (but still were not able to identify and distinguish them well—see Theme 3). The findings emphasise the need for training interventions and an intrusion detection system to increase detection of cyber-physical attacks.","PeriodicalId":54628,"journal":{"name":"Personal and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136010529","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}
R. Karthika, V. Elizabeth Jesi, Mary Subaja Christo, L. Jegatha Deborah, Audithan Sivaraman, Sanjeev Kumar
{"title":"Intelligent personalised learning system based on emotions in e-learning","authors":"R. Karthika, V. Elizabeth Jesi, Mary Subaja Christo, L. Jegatha Deborah, Audithan Sivaraman, Sanjeev Kumar","doi":"10.1007/s00779-023-01764-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-023-01764-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54628,"journal":{"name":"Personal and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136154045","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":"Personal and ubiquitous computing, special issue: “Sonic experiences: interaction, connectivity, and multi-sensory technologies”","authors":"Luca Turchet, Alan Chamberlain, Maria Kallionpää","doi":"10.1007/s00779-023-01777-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-023-01777-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54628,"journal":{"name":"Personal and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136129674","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":"Setting up SLAs using a dynamic pricing model and behavior analytics in business and marketing strategies in cloud computing","authors":"Ehsan Gorjian Mehlabani, Amir Javadpour, Chongqi Zhang, Forough Ja’fari, Arun Kumar Sangaiah","doi":"10.1007/s00779-023-01765-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-023-01765-6","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Increasing amounts of data are being generated every year. Sustainable computing systems have become capable of extracting and learning information from the underlying data. Edge and AI (artificial intelligence) are expanding into industrial systems requiring new computing and networking infrastructure. Due to this, SLA computing is becoming increasingly challenging to handle in these emerging cloud environments. The cloud is a service that provides virtual resources to users. Qualitative and quantitative findings in market-oriented approaches are one of the most common methods for managing virtual and physical machines in a network. When allocating services, price is an important factor to consider. In this study, we aim to determine the initial price of VMs while considering the dynamic pricing model in a competitive, sustainable computing system. Besides negotiation-based trading, a multifactor architecture is used for trading in the marketplace. Based on the simulation results, it was found that the performance could be improved by categorizing the VMs based on regression. According to the simulation results, the cloud market system provides a better service-level agreement (SLA) and response time when assigning virtual machines to the market. Based on the results, we found that using the regression method for categorizing the VMs to manage the market improved the SLA.","PeriodicalId":54628,"journal":{"name":"Personal and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135061210","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}