Intelligent environments are rapidly gaining ground, propelled by a rich sensor
infrastructure, the Internet of Things, sophisticated reasoning capabilities, and Artificial …

Ambient-assisted living (AAL) is, nowadays, an important research and development area,
foreseen as an important instrument to face the demographic aging. The acceptance of the …

Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) are not only important for services
transmitting multimedia data, but also for services involving multimodal human-machine …

In today's age, various telecommunications services have become indispensable. However,
not only telephony and video conferences but also gaming services determine the everyday …

Quality of experience (QoE) assessment occupies a key role in various multimedia networks
and applications. Recently, large efforts have been devoted to devise objective QoE metrics …

The persons' identification is a unique phenomenon and getting much attention in different
walk of life. The body part plays the crucual role during recognition. Each person have …

Abstract Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) have to be considered
when designing, building and maintaining services involving multimodal human–machine …

To guarantee that a software is suitable for its users regardless of age or any disabilities, it is
necessary to evaluate it with end users. This task is not always simple for a software system …

In this study experiments were conducted to determine if a person could distinguish
percussive audio loops by their fingertips using audio-driven tactile feedback. The audio …

Vocal human-to-human communication is the main purpose for using speech telephony
services. Technological development within traditional and modern packetbased (Voice …