Search results for " Awareness"

Localization Based on Parallel Robots Kinematics as an Alternative to Trilateration

2022

In this article, a new scheme for range-based localization is proposed. The main goal is to estimate the position of a mobile point based on distance measurements from fixed devices, called anchors, and on inertial measurements. Due to the nonlinear nature of the problem, an analytic relation to compute the position starting from these measurements does not exist, and often trilateration methods are used, generally based on least-square algorithms. The proposed scheme is based on the modeling of the localization process as a parallel robot, thereby methodologies and control algorithms used in the robotic area can be exploited. In particular, a closed-loop control system is designed for trac…

PV-Alert: A fog-based architecture for safeguarding vulnerable road users

2017

International audience; High volumes of pedestrians, cyclists and other vulnerable road users (VRUs) have much higher casualty rates per mile; not surprising given their lack of protection from an accident. In order to alleviate the problem, sensing capabilities of smartphones can be used to detect, warn and safeguard these road users. In this research we propose an infrastructure-less fog-based architecture named PV-Alert (Pedestrian-Vehicle Alert) where fog nodes process delay sensitive data obtained from smartphones for alerting pedestrians and drivers before sending the data to the cloud for further analysis. Fog computing is considered in developing the architecture since it is an emer…

A Context-Aware Mobile Solution for Assisting Tourists in a Smart Environment

2017

Context-Awareness in Ensemble Recommender System Framework

2021

Recommender systems that provide recommendations based uniquely on information over users and items may not be very accurate in some situations. Therefore, adding contextual information to recommendations may be a good choice resulting in a system with increased precision. In an early work, we proposed an Ensemble Variational Autoencoders (EnsVAE) framework for recommendation. EnsVAE is adjusted to output interest probabilities by learning the distribution of each item's ratings and attempts to provide diverse novel items that are pertinent to users. In this paper, we propose and investigate a context awareness framework based on the Ensemblist Variational Autoencoders model with integratin…

The Concept of Knowledge Society and Health Awareness at the University of Palermo

2022

In the last chapter of this volume, a series of activities and effects for the community will be illustrated in the Third University Mission (TM) context, namely those relating to knowledge society and health awareness. The TM of National Universi- ties includes traditionally the set of activities with which universities enter into direct interaction with society, providing a contribution that accompanies the two tradi- tional actions, such as research (in which mainly the interaction is with scientific communities) and teaching (in which an interaction takes place with the students). There are two possible forms of TM: 1) economic enhancement of knowledge (in order to encourage economic gr…

Propiedades psicométricas del Cuestionario de conciencia emocional en población infantil española

2016

La competencia emocional es la capacidad para percibir, expresar, comprender, regular y controlar nuestras emociones y las de los demás. La conciencia emocional es la competencia básica que permite el desarrollo del resto de competencias emocionales durante la infancia y la adolescencia. En este trabajo, se han estudiado las propiedades psicométricas de la versión española del Cuestionario de conciencia emocional, administrado a 1476 niños/as españoles (8-12 años). Se ha replicado la estructura original formada por seis factores. Se han estudiado la fiabilidad de los ítems y del instrumento, la validez de constructo, de contenido y concurrente, los resultados han sido satisfactorios. Se han…

La consapevolezza professionale del docente: resilienza ed autoregolazione.

2016

Il lavoro di ricerca intende evidenziare alcuni caratteri specifici della consapevolezza docente come forma di meta-competenza di natura sia strategica, sia tattica, riferibile al saper gestire se stessi nel contesto dei processi formativi e auto-formativi connessi con lo sviluppo di nuove competenze e/o lo sviluppo ulteriore di competenze già presenti e il loro trasferimento a nuovi contesti La ricerca è inserita nell’ambito del progetto PRIN dal titolo “Successo formativo, inclusione e coesione sociale: strategie innovative, ICT e modelli valutativi” (Coordinatore scientifico nazionale del Programma di Ricerca Prof. Gaetano Domenici). Attraverso il nostro lavoro ci siamo proposti di anali…

How do illiterate adults react to metalinguistic training?

2013

The present study focuses on the capacity of illiterate adults to master three different metalinguistic tasks: judgment of phonological length of words, initial consonant deletion, and lexical segmentation of sentences. Illiterates’ performance, during a pre-test and after training, was compared with that of literates and partial illiterates (adults at the beginning of the process of acquiring literacy) who received the same training. In the pre-test, illiterates were lower than literates in the three tasks; and partial-illiterates were at an intermediate level in two of the tasks. The three groups profited from the training, especially illiterates and partial-illiterates for whom improveme…

Smart energy users: ICT instruments for the consumer awareness

2015

The European Commission is supporting many projects in the field of energy saving, with the aim to improve user behavior and to help Europe to meet emission targets. In October 2012, the European Union adopted the Energy Efficiency Directive with the aim to reduce the primary energy consumption by 20% by 2020. One key point in the reduction of energy consumption energy is the awareness of final users about their usage of energy. At the same time, policies aimed at improving the efficiency of energy use, are a keystone in the strategies of leading Distribution System Operators (DSOs) and energy retail companies that started to offer, in addition to the energy supply, services and suggestions…

Slaying the SA-Demons – Humans vs. Technology – A Content analysis

2021

This paper examines Situation Awareness (SA) and the application of Endsley’s SA-Demons in different contexts and research areas. We perform content analysis to examine how they are used, and to what degree they are perceived as stemming from human-error or weaknesses in technology and if any suggestions for mitigation are primarily focused on the human or the technology side. Based on our findings, we propose Universal Design as a tool that can counter the effects of the SA-Demons by improving the usability and accessibility of SA-supporting technology and thereby removing barriers to SA, rather than challenging the users to overcome not only barriers that are a result of the complexity of…