In the classrooms, teachers faced the dilemma of whether or not to use virtual environments to continue teaching, because students were able to pose and solve mathematical problems with the help of ICT. The objective ...

Schadenfreude (i.e., the pleasure derived from another's misfortune) has been widely studied by having participants imagine how they would feel in hypothetical scenarios describing another person's pain or misfortune. ...

Background subtraction is the prerequisite for a wide range of applications including video surveillance, smart environments and content retrieval. Real environments present some challenging situations even for the most ...

Schadenfreude (i.e., the pleasure derived from another’s misfortune) has been widely studied by having participants imagine how they would feel in hypothetical scenarios describing another person’s pain or misfortune. ...

A comparative study of dynamic evacuation control strategies for emergency situations such as fires or earthquakes is presented. Due to the changing nature of emergency situations, there is a clear need for generating ...

Information Fusion is the integration of synergic information to support high-level decision-making. Emergency management systems are applications that may take advantage of such integration by supporting system's operators ...

The individual's perception and understanding obtainment on events that transform an environment and their real critical contexts, is named Situational Awareness (SA). This process assists emergency management situation, ...

Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) systems provide powerful resources to support emergency operators (dispatchers) in their activity. However, these dispatchers can work under heavy stress, which can lead to failure to get ...