The intention of this paper is to provide an overview on the subject of Human-Computer
Interaction. The overview includes the basic definitions and terminology, a survey of existing …

Abstract Building Energy Management is identified as a key part of the move towards
localised energy generation and control. The significant discrepancy between building …

The past few years have witnessed increased interest in the potential use of wireless sensor
networks (WSNs) in applications such as disaster management, combat field …

Becoming mature enough to be used for improving the quality of life, wireless sensor
network technologies are considered as one of the key research areas in computer science …

In-home, place-based, conversational agents have exploded in popularity over the past
three years. In particular, Amazon's conversational agent, Alexa, now dominates the market …

In this paper, we review the major approaches to multimodal human–computer interaction,
giving an overview of the field from a computer vision perspective. In particular, we focus on …

In the field of electricity distribution networks and with the advent of smart grids and
microgrids, the use of Distribution Locational Marginal Price (D-LMPs) in a Real Time (RT) …

Abstract The Demand-Side-Load Management will change the way people behave.
Different authors have proposed energy management algorithms for Smart Home that either …

Visual sensor networks have emerged as an important class of sensor‐based distributed
intelligent systems, with unique performance, complexity, and quality of service challenges …

Hand gesture recognition is viewed as a significant field of exploration in computer vision
with assorted applications in the human–computer communication (HCI) community. The …