Background: Football player's health is important, and preventing sudden cardiac arrest may be a critical issue. Professional ...

As localization represents the main core of various wireless sensor network applications, several localization algorithms ...

The use of wearable devices has increased substantially in recent years. This, together with the rise of telemedicine, has ...

Intimate partner violence against women (IPVW) is a pressing social issue which poses a challenge in terms of prevention, ...

The tracking problem (that is, how to follow a previously memorized path) is one of the most important problems in mobile ...

Certain applications of wireless sensor networks require that the sensor nodes should be aware of their position relative ...

Physical fatigue is not only an indication of the user’s physical condition and/or need for sleep or rest, but can also ...

El tiempo que la población pasa sentada ha aumentado en las últimas décadas debido al incremento del uso del ordenador ...

The lifespan of older people is growing together with their proportion in the population Growth in the older population. ...

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) can be used as convenient hardware accelerators to speed up Cellular Automata (CA) ...

Falls are current events that can lead to severe injuries and even accidental deaths among the population, especially the ...

Background: Measuring weight bearing is an essential aspect of clinical care for lower limb injuries such as sprains or ...

The change from face-to-face work to teleworking caused by the pandemic has induced multiple workers to spend more time ...

Nowadays, the percentage of time that the population spends sitting has increased substantially due to the use of computers ...

Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the world’s most common neurologic disorders leading to severe disability ...

Networked virtual environment (NVE) refers to a distributed software system where a simulation, also known as virtual ...

La atención a la usabilidad de los sistemas de información, como requisito no funcional, es especialmente relevante al ...

Heuristic evaluation is the preferred method to assess usability in games when experts conduct this evaluation. Many ...

Background: Remote care services and patient empowerment have boosted mobile health (mHealth). A study of user needs related ...

Cloud Computing can bring multiple benefits for Smart Cities. It permits the easy creation of centralized knowledge bases, ...

Abnormal foot postures during gait are common sources of pain and pathologies of the lower limbs. Measurements of foot ...

This systematic review synthesized and analyzed clinical findings related to the effectiveness of innovative technological ...

Cuando se habla de información de salud en Internet, inmediatamente se piensa en información procedente de colecciones ...

Background: The Internet, and its popularity, continues to grow at an unprecedented pace. Watching videos online is very ...

Side-to-side intestinal anastomosis is a surgical procedure where an incision is performed between two parallel segments ...

In the last years, there has been an increasing interest in the design of video games as a tool for education, training, ...

Objective The aim of this study was to design and validate a functional assessment scale for assisted gait with forearm ...

By extending Amdahl's law, software developers can weigh the pros and cons of moving their applications to the cloud.

Frequently, patients who suffer injuries in some lower member require forearm crutches in order to partially unload ...

Currently, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are formed by devices with limited resources and limited power energy availability. ...

Memory rehabilitation and training is an important activity for patients with Acquired Brain Damage, including Cerebral ...

The rapid evolution and adoption of mobile devices raise new usability challenges, given their limitations (in screen size, ...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are a technology that is becoming very popular for many applications, and environmental ...

The paradigm of virtual world environment arises as an useful tool in diverse fields such as e-Health or education, where ...

Diavideos1 is a web platform that collects trustworthy diabetes health videos from YouTube and offers them in a easy way. ...

This study was conducted to determine the accuracy and usefulness of two current commercially available activity trackers in ...

Knowledge of the battery lifetime of the wireless sensor network is important for many situations, such as in evaluation ...

The popularisation of Networked Virtual Environment (NVE) applications in several context, including social interaction ...

Virtual world applications allow users to interact within a simulated world. Network responsiveness and reliability ...

Supporting patients and informal carers is an essential task in managing chronic diseases. Many of these diseases are ...

Videos are the most common, direct and easy way to transmit an idea or a message and they are one of the more popular ways ...

The study presents a novel computational intelligence algorithm designed to optimise energy consumption in an environmental ...

Image processing in digital computer systems usually considers the visual information as a sequence of frames. These frames ...

Una de las vías más innovadoras para mejorar la alfabetización en salud, es decir, la capacidad de comprender y saber usar ...

Several works in the literature have recently addressed the study of different Networked Virtual Environments (NVE) due ...

Time synchronization is a key issue in wireless sensor networks; timestamping collected data, tasks scheduling, and efficient ...

This Special Issue of SIMULATION: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International is dedicated to ...

En los estudios de Ingeniería normalmente se instruye en competencias sobre diseño, en las que es fundamental conocer las ...

Ns-2 and its successor ns-3 are discrete-event simulators which are closely related to each other as they share common ...

The use of simulation tools in the development of new Wireless Sensor Networks protocols and applications should be ...

In this paper, the network traffic requirements of a virtual world based on Wonderland are studied. Object synchronization ...

In this paper we discuss about the integration of Ambient-Assisted Living (AAL) with virtual worlds. The integration of ...

Ns-2 and its successor ns-3 are discrete-event simulators. Ns- 3 is still under development, but offers some interesting ...

Image processing in digital computer systems usually considers the visual information as a sequence of frames. These ...

In wireless sensor networks, battery life is a key resource that must be conserved as much as possible. Nowadays, the main ...

For patients with chronic diseases, exercise is a key part of rehab to deal better with their illness. Some of them do ...

AmbienNet environment has been developed with the aim of demonstrating the feasibility of accessible intelligent environments ...

We propose a simpler and latency-reduced instruction scheduler, called chronoscheduling algorithm, which avoids large and ...

We propose a dynamic instruction scheduler that does not need any kind of wakeup logic, as all the instructions are “programmed” ...

In this paper, we present a simple analytical study of caching systems based on the idea of dynamic equilibrium of cache ...

Today, the availability of inexpensive, low power hardware including CMOS cameras and wireless devices make it possible ...

Address-Event-Representation (AER) is an emergent neuromorphic interchip communication protocol that allows for real-time ...

AmbienNet is an ongoing project aiming to demonstrate the viability of accessible intelligent environments to support ...

Cellular Automata (CA) is a bio-inspired processing model for problem solving, initially proposed by Von Neumann. This ...

Time synchronization is a key issue in wireless and satellite networks; time-stamping collected data, tasks scheduling or ...

Ubiquitous computing environments integrate a large number of heterogeneous devices, which convey an increasing level of ...

In this paper, a system developed for monitoring, assisting and educating people with diabetes, named eDiab, is described. ...

Nowadays, computers are frequently equipped with peripherals that transfer great amounts of data between them and the ...

Bluetooth is a suitable technology to support soft real-time applications like multimedia streams at the personal area ...

People with disabilities in general, and wheelchair users in particular, are one of the groups of people that may benefit ...

Address event representation (AER) is a neuromorphic interchip communication protocol that allows for real-time connectivity ...

In the last decade, Assistive Technology researchers have studied and developed accessible and adaptable environments ...

The design of Ambient Intelligent Systems (AISs) is discussed in the context of assistive technologies. The main issues ...

When following a path, there are several possibilities attending to the way in which the actual robot state can be related ...

We present an analytical model for single-slave Bluetooth piconets when the coexistence of multiple interfering devices ...

Address-Event-Representation (AER) is a communications protocol for transferring images between chips, originally developed ...

In mobile robots it is usual that the desired trajectory is memorized or previously generated. When following a trajectory, ...

The indoor maneuverability of powered wheelchairs may be difficult or bothersome in several circumstances. In this paper, ...

One of the main advantages of the Bluetooth standard is that it provides a way to support ad-hoc connectivity between a ...

In this work we present a new path following control for unicycle robots that is applicable for almost all the possible ...

En este trabajo, se describe un simulador gráfico denominado Simula Cache 1.0, que facilita la realización de prácticas ...

Several authors have proposed some methods for applying path following in specific cases to mobile robots. When we try to ...

In this paper, a model for the analysis of the CAN protocol is presented, extending the analysis already developed for ...

With the important development of computer architectures, bus emulation becomes a very important tool. In this paper, ...

El protocolo CAN nace como protocolo de red de procesadores en el campo de la automoción. Hoy en día, este protocolo se ...

Several approaches to multiple robot system control are discussed. In order to simplify the study a multilayered model is ...