Gheorghita Ghinea

Addressing the increasing processing demands of contemporary applications has grown to rely heavily on parallel computing. The development of faster and more effective computing...

Pervasive is also acknowledged as ubiquitous computing, which incorporates connecting all objects in the surroundings through its functionalities. When it is connected it will...

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are appropriate as viable instruments in communication systems. The concept of the unmanned aerial vehicle fits with the internet of things (IoT)...

The expansion of the internet and the growing use of technology in the healthcare system have helped doctors monitor their patients remotely through the use of real-time smart...

This chapter is conceptual in character and concentrates on two more recent technology innovations the fashion industry is making use of both virtual reality (VR) and augmented...

The user experience constitutes an important quality metric when delivering high-definition video services in wireless networks. Failing to provide these services within...

In access networks, the radio resource management is designed to deal with the system capacity maximization while the quality of service (QoS) requirements need be satisfied for...

The user experience constitutes an important quality metric when delivering high-definition video services in wireless networks. Failing to provide these services within...

Video summarization condenses a video by extracting its informative and interesting segments. In this article, a novel video summarization approach is proposed based on...

The successful integration of novel interactive virtual environments for everyday life applications may constitute an important indication towards similarly employing Virtual...

Multimedia lies on an infotainment continuum, using multiple forms of information content to both inform and entertain users. In other words, multimedia applications are usually...

In this paper, the authors investigate the professional practices of software developers from two different cultures—Norway and India. The authors examine if systematic...

The past decade has marked a shift in Web development as users have become accustomed to Web applications with dynamic content and enhanced user experience. Different languages...

Olfaction (smell) is one of our commonly used senses in everyday life. However, this is not the case in digital media, where it is an exception to the rule that usually only our...

The purpose of this study was to find out whether users should be involved in the design stage of a Digital Library (DL). Hence an experiment has been undertaken to find out the...

Business intelligence (BI) is a term that refers to a variety of techniques and software applications used to analyze an organization’s raw data. Companies use BI to improve...

Traditionally, mobile devices have come with a set number of functionalities. Even when these have been augmented, this has rarely involved taking advantage of their...

Recent research suggests that a strong link exists between business innovation and service oriented IT architectures: modern IT architecture enables business to quickly create...

Recent research suggests that a strong link exists between business innovation and service oriented IT architectures: modern IT architecture enables business to quickly create...

In this paper, the authors investigate the professional practices of software developers from two different cultures—Norway and India. The authors examine if systematic...

The purpose of this study was to find out whether users should be involved in the design stage of a Digital Library (DL). Hence an experiment has been undertaken to find out the...

This chapter describes an investigation exploring user experiences of accessing streamed multimedia content, when that content is tailored according to perceptual, device and...

This study investigated two dimensions of cognitive style, including Verbalizer/Imager and Field Dependent/ Field Independent and their influence on user perceived quality of...

User Centered Design for Medical Visualization features a comprehensive review of leading advances in medical visualization and human-computer interaction. This book investigates...

In this chapter, we describe the results of empirical studies which examined the effect of cognitive style on the perceived quality of distributed multimedia. We use two...

Digital Multimedia Perception and Design provides a well-rounded synopsis of the state-of-the-art technologies in perceptual-based multimedia design. It is the only such book on...

In this chapter, we describe the results of empirical studies which examined the effect of cognitive style on the perceived quality of distributed multimedia. We use two...