Ambient intelligence and ergonomics in Asia

Authors: HsinChieh Wu Toly Chen PengCheng Sung YuCheng Lin

Publish Date: 2016/10/12

Volume: 7, Issue: 6, Pages: 761-762

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Abstract

This special issue is based on selected papers from the 2nd international conference on ambient intelligence and Ergonomics in Asia held on January 21–23 2015 in Taoyuan Taiwan The conference attracted a large number of scientific papers that contributed to the stateoftheart in the fields of ambient intelligence and ergonomics All of the papers selected for this special issue were extended from their original versions and underwent two or three rounds of rigorous peerreviewed process The accepted papers cover interesting works on the interaction between ambient intelligence and ergonomicsVirtual environment VE technology for online shopping can provide a 3D perspective to customers for a more realistic sense of the goods and the shopping environment ChengLi Liu and ShiawTsyr Uang found that the elderly who browsed in a 3D virtual store with highquality depth perception cues benefitted from binocular disparity within a 3D display and were able to experience a good sense of presence Although the 3D displays provided a stereopsis environment the cyber sickness sideeffect from exposure in a VE can be serious when the depth perception cues are poor especially within a stereoscopic displayRungChing Chen ChiaFen Hsieh and WeiLun Chang established an intrusion detection system the patrol intrusion detection system PIDS to protect the confidentiality and integrity of sensor data In the proposed methodology a fraction of the sensor nodes were used as roaming patrol nodes to detect malicious sensor nodes A revised artificial bee colony ABC algorithm was designed to find a path with lower power consumption to transmit attack feature packets in the PIDSEstimating the cycle time for each job is a critical concern in managing a factory To address this concern classification approaches in which jobs are classified before or after forecasting their cycle times have recently been proposed However none of these approaches can guarantee the compatibility of the job classifier with the forecasting mechanism To overcome this difficulty Toly Chen proposed a new classification approach in which the forecasting mechanism training was embedded into the job classifier iterations Consequently the classification and forecasting stages interweaved with each other improving their compatibilityA ALRefaie Toly Chen R AlAthamneh and HsinChieh Wu proposed a fuzzy neural network approach to optimize the performance of a process with multiple responses In their method each quality characteristic was transformed into a signaltonoise ratio and all ratios were then provided as inputs to a fuzzy model to obtain a single comprehensive output measure COM The radial basis function neural networks were used to generate a full factorial design The average COM values were then calculated for different factor levels where for each factor the level that maximizes the COM value was identified as the optimal levelMobile advertising researchers have suggested that the advertising effect is caused by the advertising features KuoWei Su PoHsin Huang PoHung Chen and YaTing Li tried to identify what mobile application advertising formats users really liked and accepted They found that rich media showed higher advertising effectiveness than the dynamic banner Further the playfulness interactive mode was better than user control and connectedness for advertising effectivenessHsinChieh Wu MinChi Chiu and ChiaWei Peng used an ergonomic perspective to measure eyestrain occurrence time while watching different display types and stimulation scenarios Notably both display type and stimulation scenario have significant effects on the eyestrain occurrence time They suggested that handheld intelligent devices should intelligently remind users to rest according to the time spent viewing from the AMOLED active matrix organic light emitting diode or TFTLCD thin film transistorliquid crystal display screen as well as while watching static text or dynamic images Their findings can be applied to developing an ambient intelligent system that can intelligently remind the user to take a rest before visual fatigue occursThe growth of LED lightemitting diodes lighting applications has accelerated along with LED lighting efficiency and characteristics enhancements Energy issue and policy formulation considerations are concerns among governments all over the world ChienChun Lu Chinmei Chou Akira Yasukouchi Tomoaki Kozaki and ChengYi Liu compared the nighttime LED and current fluorescent light effects on human melatonin They found that LED lighting will lead to lower melatonin and DLMO delay of melatonin onset interference than fluorescent lightsComputer and video games have become the most popular leisure time activities for people in recent years SiJing Chen YenYu Kang ChihLong Lin investigated the display type playrest schedule and game type effects on visual fatigue heart rate and mental workload for both genders during 1 h Wii game playing Their study results showed that better display quality plasma display and a more intensive game boxing increased players’ motivation and visual sensitivity CFF threshold increased However it also caused an increase in eye fatigue and physical as well as mental workload Thus it is necessary to adopt a frequentbreak schedule while playing more intensive games such as boxingChu Chai Henry Chan YingRown Hwang and HsinChieh Wu proposed the PSO algorithm to cluster customers They used a RFM model to find profitable valuable customers and compute their lifetime values Based on these lifetime values they applied the PSO algorithm to cluster customers Further they presented an empirical case study involving a retail automobile marketing campaign and found that the hybrid SKMeansPSO SOM KMeans and PSO algorithms reached the best performance Their study proposes effective marketing strategies for two segmented profitable and valuable customersThe increasing development of intelligent lighting designs for better life quality calls for studies on thermal lighting environments ChinMei Chou ChienChun Lu Ruyu Huang investigated the effects of five color indoor lighting temperatures and two office temperatures on workers’ physiological psychological response and work performance They found that comfortable physiological responses in work and nonwork conditions were observed with CCT5000 °K and CCT6500 °K at 30 °C and CCT4000 °K at 28 °C This study contributes to wellplanned ambient intelligent design settings for humans to improve work performance in ambient environmentsHuiCun Shen and KunChieh Wang proposed a new Kansei manipulation procedure that combined an associative creativity thinking process with the fuzzy Kansei engineering to explore a new product form matching future customers’ requirements They also evaluated the procedure by designing a table horn Their methodology can be used to design a new product prototype that matches customers’ preferenceThe guest editors would like to thank the EditorinChief for his kind help in bringing out this special issue We are thankful to all of the authors who shared their research We wish to express our deepest gratitude to the Referees who provided very useful and thoughtful feedback to our authors We would also like to thank the journal staff Without their support and professional assistance the prepublication process would not have been possible

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