Achieving Adaptive Augmented Reality through Ontological Context-Awareness applied to AAL Scenarios

This paper presents a proposal for supporting daily user needs by simple interactions with the environment through an augmented-reality perspective that applies proactive adaptation through knowledge representation using ontologies. The proposed architecture (i-ARA) uses principles of the Semantic Web that endow context-awareness and user personalization. In addition, these types of services allow the supervision and management of what is happening in the environment and, consequently, improve the information offered to users. The architecture has been used to implement applications using iPhone technology and has been applied to illustrative scenarios, including Ambient Assisted Living.This paper presents a proposal for supporting daily user needs by simple interactions with the environment through an augmented-reality perspective that applies proactive adaptation through knowledge representation using ontologies. The proposed architecture (i-ARA) uses principles of the Semantic Web that endow context-awareness and user personalization. In addition, these types of services allow the supervision and management of what is happening in the environment and, consequently, improve the information offered to users. The architecture has been used to implement applications using iPhone technology and has been applied to illustrative scenarios, including Ambient Assisted Living

An Architecture for Development of Ambient Assisted Living Applications: a Case Study in Diabetes

Advances in sensors, mobile and embedded devices have made possible patient monitoring and provided medical treatments and other assistance in health care. Aging populations will benefit from reduced costs and improved health care through assisted living based on these technologies. In this paper we present a monitoring and control architecture allow control of a patient’s disease trough mobile and biometric devices. Our architecture is based on an Ambient Assisted Living control that provides different modules organized in a final application embedded in the mobile devices. This application is compounded by aspects like control of measurement, data obtained and representation, generation of suggestions, prevention, and education control. We have explored the architecture by developing a final application and implementing them in a prototype system. Our system shows the feasibility and opportunity of an open approach to ambient assisted living architecture.Advances in sensors, mobile and embedded devices have made possible patient monitoring and provided medical treatments and other assistance in health care. Aging populations will benefit from reduced costs and improved health care through assisted living based on these technologies. In this paper we present a monitoring and control architecture allow control of a patient’s disease trough mobile and biometric devices. Our architecture is based on an Ambient Assisted Living control that provides different modules organized in a final application embedded in the mobile devices. This application is compounded by aspects like control of measurement, data obtained and representation, generation of suggestions, prevention, and education control. We have explored the architecture by developing a final application and implementing them in a prototype system. Our system shows the feasibility and opportunity of an open approach to ambient assisted living architecture

Ontological Context-Awareness for Adaptive Augmented Reality

This paper presents a proposal for supporting daily user needs by simple interactions with the environment through an augmented-reality perspective and applying proactive adaptation through knowledge representation using ontologies. The proposed architecture (i-ARA) makes use of principles of Semantic Web that endow context-awareness and user personalization. In addition, this kind of services allows the supervision and management of what is happening at the environment and, in consequence, to improve information offered to users. The architecture has been used to implement applications using iPhone technology and applied to illustrative scenarios.This paper presents a proposal for supporting daily user needs by simple interactions with the environment through an augmented-reality perspective and applying proactive adaptation through knowledge representation using ontologies. The proposed architecture (i-ARA) makes use of principles of Semantic Web that endow context-awareness and user personalization. In addition, this kind of services allows the supervision and management of what is happening at the environment and, in consequence, to improve information offered to users. The architecture has been used to implement applications using iPhone technology and applied to illustrative scenarios

Automatizing chromatic quality assessment for cultural heritage image digitization

In the context of digitization of photographs and other documents with graphical value, cultural heritage organizations need to give a guarantee that the stored digital image is a faithful representation of the physical image both at the physical level and the perceptual level. On the physical level, image quality can be measured objectively in a simple way by applying certain physical attributes to the image, as well as by measuring how distorting images affects the performance of the attributes. However, on the perceptual level, image quality should correspond to the perception that a human expert would experience when observing the physical image under certain determined and controlled conditions. In this paper we address the problem of image quality assessment (IQA) in the context of cultural heritage digitization by applying machine learning (ML). In particular, we explore the possibility of creating a decision tree that mimics the response of an expert on cultural heritage when observing cultural heritage images

Plan de Responsabilidad Social Empresarial Nueva EPS S.A.

Plan de Responsabilidad Social Empresarial Nueva EPS S.A.Debido a la interconexión que existe entre todos los países del mundo cada vez es mas complejo competir en los mercados de cada industria, es por esto por lo que las empresas deben buscar nuevas estrategias que le permitan ser indispensables en el mercado para cautivar mayores clientes, satisfacer las necesidades de su nicho de mercado y a su vez, solucionar problemáticas de su entorno por el impacto negativo que se pueda generar debido a sus actividades comerciales. El presente trabajo busca como objetivo diseñar y ejecutar un Plan de RSE paraa la empresa NUEVA EPS S.A. con el fin de que se pueda identificar el direccionamiento estratégico de la compañía a través de una evaluación de desempeño organizacional, con el fin de obtener información de las principales problemáticas que aquejan a la empresa diagnosticada para poder así realizar cambios estructurales en su enfoque organizacional compuesto por misión, visión, valores corporativos y código de conducta. En base a ello realizaremos los cambios pertinentes para ejecutar el nuevo Plan de Responsabilidad Empresarial a través del análisis de Stakeholders de acuerdo a su nivel interno, medio o externo; análisis de la matriz de influencia e impacto que se encarga de observar el nivel de capacidad que los stakeholders ejercen sobre la empresa y viceversa. El Plan de responsabilidad empresarial está compuesto por tres dimensiones muy importantes que son: económica, social y ambiental; las cuales buscan analizar los criterios para el diseño del plan. Para ello se debe seleccionar los Stakeholders que intervienen en cada dimensión para diseñar un objetivo estratégico que permita modificar actividades erróneas que está llevando a cabo la empresa y que afectan negativamente a las partes interesadas seleccionadas. Después de ello se establece un objetivo general y una estrategia que permita identificar el cambio estructural que debe ejecutar la empresa. Finalmente se analizan variables como el plazo en el que se realizará la estrategia, tanto el recurso humano, técnico, físico como el financiero que se requiere, el indicador que nos permitirá analizar los resultados obtenidos y el departamento encargado de realizar el seguimiento al cumplimiento de las obligaciones y obtención de objetivos.Due to the interconnection that exists between all the countries of the world it’s increasingly more complex to compete in the markets of each industry, this is why companies must seek new strategies that allow them to be indispensable in the market to captivate larger customers, meet the needs of your market niche and, in turn, solve problems in your environment due to the negative impact that can be generated due to your commercial activities. The present work aims to design and execute a Corporate Social Responsibility Plan for the company NUEVA EPS S.A. in order to be able to identify the strategic direction of the company through an organizational performance evaluation, in order to obtain information on the main problems that afflict the company diagnosed in order to make structural changes in its composite organizational approach by mission, vision, corporate values and code of conduct. Based on this, we will make the pertinent changes to execute the new Corporate Responsibility Plan through the analysis of Stakeholders according to their internal, medium or external level; analysis of the impact and impact matrix that is responsible for observing the level of capacity that stakeholders exercise over the company and vice versa. The Corporate Responsibility Plan is composed of three very important dimensions: economic, social and environmental; which seek to analyze the criteria for the design of the plan. To do so, the Stakeholders involved in each dimension must be selected to design a strategic objective that allows erroneous activities that are being carried out by the company to be modified and that negatively affect the selected stakeholders. After that, a general objective and a strategy is established to identify the structural change that the company must execute. Finally, variables such as the term in which the strategy will be carried out, the human, technical, physical and financial resources required are analyzed, the indicator that will allow us to analyze the results obtained and the department in charge of monitoring compliance with the obligations and obtaining objectives

A Proposal for Mobile Diabetes Self-control: Towards a Patient Monitoring Framework

In this paper, we present a proposal for Patients’ Mobile Monitoring. This framework enables the definition and generation of profiles, modules and communication structures between each of the measuring devices and the mobile phone depending on the kind of condition and the measuring values of the patient. We use patterns to allow the generation of self-control modules and patient profiles. These patterns establish relations between each module. With patient’s measured data, patient profile and modules, the framework generates an application for the doctor and the patient in a mobile phone. These applications allow the monitoring, patient self-control and the communication between the patient and the doctor. Moreover, as an important study case, we present a mobile monitoring system which allows patients with diabetes to have a constant control of their glucose tendency as well as direct communication with their doctor.In this paper, we present a proposal for Patients’ Mobile Monitoring. This framework enables the definition and generation of profiles, modules and communication structures between each of the measuring devices and the mobile phone depending on the kind of condition and the measuring values of the patient. We use patterns to allow the generation of self-control modules and patient profiles. These patterns establish relations between each module. With patient’s measured data, patient profile and modules, the framework generates an application for the doctor and the patient in a mobile phone. These applications allow the monitoring, patient self-control and the communication between the patient and the doctor. Moreover, as an important study case, we present a mobile monitoring system which allows patients with diabetes to have a constant control of their glucose tendency as well as direct communication with their doctor

Nanocrystalline tin oxide nanofibers deposited by a novel focused electrospinning method. Application to the detection of TATP precursors

A new method of depositing tin dioxide nanofibers in order to develop chemical sensors is presented. It involves an electrospinning process with in-plane electrostatic focusing over micromechanized substrates. It is a fast and reproducible method. After an annealing process, which can be performed by the substrate heaters, it is observed that the fibers are intertwined forming porous networks that are randomly distributed on the substrate. The fiber diameters oscillate from 100 nm to 200 nm and fiber lengths reach several tens of microns. Each fiber has a polycrystalline structure with multiple nano-grains. The sensors have been tested for the detection of acetone and hydrogen peroxide (precursors of the explosive triacetone triperoxide, TATP) in air in the ppm range. High and fast responses to these gases have been obtained. © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.This work has been supported by the Spanish Science and Innovation Ministry under the projects TEC2010-21357-C05-04 and TEC2013-48147-C6-4-R. Authors want to thank University of Extremadura for SEM and XRD analysis. We acknowledge support by the CSIC Open Access Publication Initiative through its Unit of Information Resources for Research (URICI)Peer Reviewe

Love-Wave Sensors Combined with Microfluidics for Fast Detection of Biological Warfare Agents

The following paper examines a time-efficient method for detecting biological warfare agents (BWAs). The method is based on a system of a Love-wave immunosensor combined with a microfluidic chip which detects BWA samples in a dynamic mode. In this way a continuous flow-through of the sample is created, promoting the reaction between antigen and antibody and allowing a fast detection of the BWAs. In order to prove this method, static and dynamic modes have been simulated and different concentrations of BWA simulants have been tested with two immunoreactions: phage M13 has been detected using the mouse monoclonal antibody anti-M13 (AM13), and the rabbit immunoglobulin (Rabbit IgG) has been detected using the polyclonal antibody goat anti-rabbit (GAR). Finally, different concentrations of each BWA simulants have been detected with a fast response time and a desirable level of discrimination among them has been achieved.This work was supported by the Spanish Science and Innovation Ministry under the project TEC2010-21357-C05-04, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.We acknowledge support by the CSIC Open Access Publication Initiative through its Unit of Information Resources for Research (URICI)Peer reviewe

From implicit to touching interaction by identification technologies: Towards tagging context

Intelligent environments need interactions capable of detecting users and providing them with good-quality contextual information. In this sense we adapt technologies, identifying and locating people for supporting their needs. However, it is necessary to analyze some important features in order to compare the implicit interaction, which is closer to the users and more natural, to a new interaction by contact. In this paper we present the adaptability of two technologies; Radiofrequency Identification (RFID) and Near Field Communication (NFC). In the first one, the interaction is more appropriate within intelligent environments but in the second one, the same RFID technology, placed in mobile phones, achieves some advantages that we consider to be an intermediate solution until the standardization of sensors arrives.Intelligent environments need interactions capable of detecting users and providing them with good-quality contextual information. In this sense we adapt technologies, identifying and locating people for supporting their needs. However, it is necessary to analyze some important features in order to compare the implicit interaction, which is closer to the users and more natural, to a new interaction by contact. In this paper we present the adaptability of two technologies; Radiofrequency Identification (RFID) and Near Field Communication (NFC). In the first one, the interaction is more appropriate within intelligent environments but in the second one, the same RFID technology, placed in mobile phones, achieves some advantages that we consider to be an intermediate solution until the standardization of sensors arrives