Towards Sustainable Cities

Purpose – Cities drive urban, social and economic development and select a path for sustainability following a smart approach. Cities should evolve as smart communities understanding the potential of information technology to support collaboration between public and private organizations in order to improve urban competitiveness, sustain innovation and ensure the quality of life. The aim of this study is to identify the dimensions leading cities to sustainability: developing a smart approach; sustaining the role of municipal institutions for building smart governance; promoting education, learning and innovation. Design/methodology/approach – As smart communities, cities use technology to develop smartness and sustainability for knowledge and innovation. This study is based on archival and qualitative data drawn by literature review and analysis on smart and sustainable cities and communities. Originality/value – Cities promoting a smart approach should select a path for sustainability. Identifying dimensions driving cities to develop as sustainable cities and communities helps to identify knowledge source for innovation and urban growth. Practical implications – As smart and sustainable communities, cities should encourage partnerships between private and public actors in order to provide services, create and ensure high quality of life. As communities, cities should support people by sustaining learning and education, developing smart institutions of governance to design policies driving sustainable urban growth and development

Principles of Increasing the Interactivity of Mobile Applications of Smart Parking

Mobile applications (APPs) are adopted and downloaded widely around the world. Those APPs are those for examples linking to enterprise applications, management information systems, education systems, and healthcare systems. Thus, the importance of potential development APPs is hung. The objective of this study is to elicit design principles for ensuring the interactivity of smart parking APPs to be used especially in the city. This study conducted a systematic review on the past literature of interface design and case studies on seven smart parking APPs on the market in order to develop a design framework for smart parking APPs, which include a list of design principles. Then, four experts of APP design were involved in a series of interviews to improve the readability and usability of the framework. Finally, this study identified 11 principles for improving the interactivity of smart parking APPs, which are useful to the situation when users need to interact with a smart phone urgently in a small-touch-screen environment

A Study on the relationship between investment in education and training and smart factory level of manufacturing SMEs

Thesis(Master) -- KDI School: Master of Development Policy, 2022Smart Factories so far have achieved quantitative growth led by the government, but discussions are insufficient on how to promote the qualitative advancement of the supplied Smart Factory. This paper performs a binomial logistic regression to find the determinants of the level of Smart Factories focused on the investment of education and training by using the 2019 Workplace Panel Survey data of the Korea Labor Institute (KLI). The analysis results of the study show that the existence of a person (department) in charge, the pre-planning establishment, the annual average of training hours per person, the ratio of training participation, and training cost per person were not significant determinants of the level of Smart Factories. The main training contents seem to have a positive effect on the level of Smart Factories.I. INTRODUCTION II. LITERATURE REVIEW III. DATA AND METHOD IV. DATA ANALYSIS V. CONCLUSIONmasterpublishedMeehyeun O

Big Data Emerging Technology: Insights into Innovative Environment for Online Learning Resources

Digital devices like tablets, smart phones, and laptop have become increasingly raised and utilised in higher education. As a result, current trends on ICT (information and communication technology) used in education begin widely with focusing on teaching and learning. The new concept of big data in recent ICT domain extends the promising research direction on online learning and big data integration through promising content that can be tailored for each student based on the context and Internet behaviour of users in online learning. This paper aims to explore innovative design for innovative online learning in Higher education using Big Data approach. Critical review from referred journals and books was conducted using thematic analysis. This paper proposes model reference which can be implemented with the technology in teaching and learning to improve student learning environment and outcomes and to enhance students’ development, performance and achievement in learning process in higher education

Potentials of Smart Phones in Educational Development of Nigerian Secondary School Students: A Review

The use of smartphone is gradually becoming a compelling learning tool used to enhance teaching and learning in distance education. Its usage ensures flexible course delivery, makes it possible for learners to access online learning platforms, access course resources and interact digitally. Students’ use of smart phones and other convergent technological devices for study and social purposes has grown significantly in the past five years. This trend is part of a more general ICT revolution impacting on the way students interact both with each other and with their studies. Though, controversy exists on use of smart phones in schools, yet the device is full of potentials that could be tapped for educational purposes. This paper provides a review which critically examines the inherent potentials associated with mobile smart phone technology and how these potentials could be tapped for educational development of the Nigerian secondary school students. The paper also x-rays the need for proper guidelines be set for effective application of this technology within the Nigerian school system DOI: 10.7176/JEP/12-27-07 Publication date:September 30th 202

A sensitising tool for smart home designers: Based on user-oriented product design research into the home life of older adults in the UK

This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Focusing on the needs of users, design can leverage new product development process by offering insightful knowledge of those needs. This research investigates the technology development of smart homes. Design is utilised as a product research tool to identify key insights of the home life of the older adults living in the UK, and for the purpose of informing the front-end of the new product development process. The review of the literature in the field of smart homes suggests that the developments have lagged by a technology-push approach, the lack of appropriate concepts from users’ perspectives as well as the lack of development strategy, which has consequently been reflected in consumers’ reluctance towards smart homes. As a result, this doctoral research aimed to ‘develop a user-oriented product design research tool that improves the understanding of the home life of older adults.’ To achieve the aim, this research employs qualitative methodology to develop a research process that utilises the cultural probe, semi-structured interview and video tour. Informed by ethnographic tradition, this research establishes its trustworthiness and credibility by employing a thorough process of analysis (qualitative analysis with computer-assisted software NVivo 8 and peers debriefing) and evaluation (creative workshop and evaluative interview) with practitioners from the field of product design, design management and design education. The result of the field investigation is presented as ten personas and taxonomy of nodes, which form the contribution of this research, a sensitising tool and process. This research contributes a sensitising tool - a design-led, user-inspired and participatory product design research that the offers insightful knowledge of those older adults and their relationships with their homes living in the UK. This sensitising tool is developed for the smart home designers for the purpose of generating new product ideas and challenges designers’ preconception of users and smart homes, and provokes reflections on the practices of user-centred and user-participatory design, as examined in the creative workshop. In addition, this research also contributes to the growing debate surrounding the issues relating to ethnographic user research and the use of cultural probe for the design of new smart homes

Smart Campus: Trends in cybersecurity and future development

Smart Campus is an entity of any kind that uses technology and infrastructure to support and improve its processes, so people can use them better. This paper reviews the literature to contextualize the Internet of Things and its vital importance for the Smart Campus, as well as its relationship with the concepts of cybersecurity and wireless sensor network. We describe the various interrelationships, tendencies, and future development of a Smart Campus, as well as the differences and similarities with the emerging concept of Smart University. This review revealed that the Internet of Things is involved in all fields and can influence and improve the university’s processes to contribute to decision-making, technological development, and academic learning. To conclude, Smart University focuses on improving the infrastructure of universities through technology, with the main purpose of enhancing the quality of the education provided by institutions

An Ecological Approach to Smart Homes for Health Care Services: Conceptual Framework of a Smart Servicescape Wheel

Background: Smart homes are considered effective solutions for home health care for the elderly, as smart home technologies can reduce care costs and improve elderly residents' independence. To develop a greater understanding of smart homes for health care services (SHHSs), this study accentuated the necessity of ecological approaches with an emphasis on environmental constraints. This study was based on 2 rationales: (1) users are inclined to perceive the service quality and service experience from environments (ie, servicescape) owing to the intangibility of health care and the pervasiveness of smart home technologies, and (2) both service domains are complex adaptive systems in which diversified and undefined service experiences-not only a few intended service flows-can be generated by complex combinations of servicescape elements. Objective: This study proposed the conceptual framework of a Smart Servicescape Wheel (SSW) as an ecological approach delineating the extensive spectrum of environmental constraints in SHHSs. Methods: The SSW framework was established based on a literature review. Results: Generally divided by perceptible and imperceptible servicescapes, the SSW consists of the perceptible Physical scape (ie, hardware components, environmental cues, and human states) and Social scape (ie, service relationships and social relationships) as well as the imperceptible Datascape (ie, computing intelligence, databases, and communication networks). Following the ecological approach, each category of the SSW is subdivided and defined at the level of components or functions. Conclusions: The SSW's strengths lie in the various application opportunities for SHHSs. In terms of service planning and development, the SSW can be utilized to (1) establish the requirements for SHHS development, (2) associate with work domain analysis by defining component layers, and (3) understand the real contexts of SHHSs for the enhanced prediction of diverse service experiences. Regarding service management, it can be applied to develop measurement items for the operation and evaluation of SHHSs.This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea under grant NRF-2017S1A5A8019275. This fund has no specific role or influence in the research process

Public-Private Partnership: A Bibliometric Analysis and Historical Evolution

The broad and extensive application of public-private partnership (PPP), as well as the divergent documented definitions and experiences, have led to a translucent perspective of PPP and strained academia and industry to reach a consensus on the major practice of this concept. Early contractor involvement (ECI), governance tools, and relational contracting are only a few of the frameworks attributed to PPP. This issue has received limited attention from researchers, despite the focus of review studies on different disciplines of PPP. Hence, this paper puts forward the idea of conducting a comprehensive review to not only shed light on the major practice of PPP but also provide a wider outlook on this concept based on the research carried out since 1979. A narrative review is initially accomplished to identify the major drivers and milestones that have contributed to the evolution of PPP. Employing bibliometric analysis in the following phase assists in conducting a multi-dimensional assessment of studies published within the last five decades. The economic and societal practices of PPP throughout its evolution path signified the dominant application of this concept as a business model. The bibliometric analysis revealed that PPP has contributed to various sectors, i.e., urban development, public infrastructure, transportation, health, and education, just to name a few. In addition, economic and organizational management of PPP was revealed as a major research stream that was accompanied by sustainable development. As a matter of fact, economic and environmental sustainability are the major cross-disciplinary elements that form an interplay between the drivers and attributes of PPP. Value for money (VfM), technology, and innovation, along with smart infrastructure (SI) and smart cities (SCs), are identified as the major directions for the future research agenda associated with PPP.Public-Private Partnership: A Bibliometric Analysis and Historical EvolutionpublishedVersio

How should our pedagogy keep up with rapidly changing technology?

The place and potential of e-learning technology in education is in a state of constant development. Previously 'cutting edge' articles and books for teachers are quickly obsolete, as these resources, written for the age of Myspace and desktops, did not prepare educators for the arrival and popularity of tablets, smart-phones, and social media applications. This literature review explores six different articles on this subject addressing a range of perspectives in this area. They were found searching academic databases with the terms 'e-learning', 'pedagogy' and 'technology'. To keep the articles relatively current- to reflect the development of web 2.0 and 3.0 and other recent trends- the search parameters were restricted to 2011 onwards. The overwhelming position in the literature is that pedagogy must guide our e-learning. While some articles focussed on applying this in a classroom, others preferred to construct a framework to guide educators in their e-learning design