In a worldwide context, space heating is the largest energy consumer in commercial buildings, it accounts for 35% of the total energy consumed in the US. Energy efficient thermostats, that learn occupancy patterns and user ...

Emerging online educational communities provide spaces for teachers to find resources, create instructional activities, and share these activities with others. Within these online communities, individual users’ activities ...

With the advent of interactive techniques for multidimensional data visualization using dimensionality reduction, new possibilities of dealing with data complexity were introduced. The idea behind those methods is to allow ...

We have been witnessing a continuous growth in the use of information technology in all areas of human knowledge in the last decades. In parallel, we may also observe an increase in the degree of interactiveness provided ...

Evaluating user behavior in virtual reality environments is a challenging task, requiring leading with spatial user freedom and with non-conventional visualization and interaction devices. By gathering and analyzing user ...

The interaction between humans and the computers has improved substantially during time through the evolution of interfaces of interaction. The possibility of users to interact with machines through several modalities ...