2020
Autores
Morgado, L; Beck, D;
Publicação
PROCEEDINGS OF 2020 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IMMERSIVE LEARNING RESEARCH NETWORK (ILRN 2020)
Abstract
The progress of immersive learning research as a field requires a clear vision of its status, of the current knowledge being produced and of the open problems and gaps. Typical survey efforts however suffer from lack of systematization, providing a scattered perspective of the field. We have combined the literature on conducting systematic scoping reviews and applied it to the field, presenting the resulting protocol. It contributes a clarification on the sequence of steps and processes for delineating a gap, finding the evidence and depart from it to conduct literature reviews.
2020
Autores
Janssen, M; Brous, P; Estevez, E; Barbosa, LS; Janowski, T;
Publicação
GOVERNMENT INFORMATION QUARTERLY
Abstract
The rise of Big, Open and Linked Data (BOLD) enables Big Data Algorithmic Systems (BDAS) which are often based on machine learning, neural networks and other forms of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As such systems are increasingly requested to make decisions that are consequential to individuals, communities and society at large, their failures cannot be tolerated, and they are subject to stringent regulatory and ethical requirements. However, they all rely on data which is not only big, open and linked but varied, dynamic and streamed at high speeds in real-time. Managing such data is challenging. To overcome such challenges and utilize opportunities for BDAS, organizations are increasingly developing advanced data governance capabilities. This paper reviews challenges and approaches to data governance for such systems, and proposes a framework for data governance for trustworthy BDAS. The framework promotes the stewardship of data, processes and algorithms, the controlled opening of data and algorithms to enable external scrutiny, trusted information sharing within and between organizations, risk-based governance, system-level controls, and data control through shared ownership and self-sovereign identities. The framework is based on 13 design principles and is proposed incrementally, for a single organization and multiple networked organizations.
2020
Autores
Moreira, J; Mendes, D; Goncalves, D;
Publicação
PROCEEDINGS OF THE WORKING CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED VISUAL INTERFACES AVI 2020
Abstract
In InfoVis design, visualizations make use of pre-attentive features to highlight visual artifacts and guide users' perception into relevant information during primitive visual tasks. These are supported by visual marks such as dots, lines, and areas. However, research assumes our pre-attentive processing only allows us to detect specific features in charts. We argue that a visualization can be completely perceived pre-attentively and still convey relevant information. In this work, by combining cognitive perception and psychophysics, we executed a user study with six primitive visual tasks to verify if they could be performed pre-attentively. The tasks were to find: horizontal and vertical positions, length and slope of lines, size of areas, and color luminance intensity. Users were presented with very simple visualizations, with one encoded value at a time, allowing us to assess the accuracy and response time. Our results showed that horizontal position identification is the most accurate and fastest task to do, and the color luminance intensity identification task is the worst. We believe our study is the first step into a fresh field called Incidental Visualizations, where visualizations are meant to be seen at-a-glance, and with little effort.
2020
Autores
Barbosa, LS;
Publicação
ICSE '20: 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering, Workshops, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 27 June - 19 July, 2020
Abstract
Software is a critical factor in the reliability of computer systems. While the development of hardware is assisted by mature science and engineering disciplines, software science is still in its infancy. This situation is likely to worsen in the future with quantum computer systems. Actually, if quantum computing is quickly coming of age, with potential groundbreaking impacts on many different fields, such benefits come at a price: quantum programming is hard and finding new quantum algorithms is far from straightforward. Thus, the need for suitable formal techniques in quantum software development is even bigger than in classical computation. A lack of reliable approaches to quantum computer programming will put at risk the expected quantum advantage of the new hardware. This position paper argues for the need for a proper quantum software engineering discipline benefiting from precise foundations and calculi, capable of supporting algorithm development and analysis. © 2020 ACM.
2020
Autores
Narciso, D; Melo, M; Vasconcelos Raposo, J; Bessa, M;
Publicação
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON APPLIED PERCEPTION
Abstract
Consuming 360 audiovisual content using a Head-Mounted Display (HMD) has become a standard feature for Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR). However, most applications rely only on visual and auditory feedback whereas other senses are often disregarded. The main goal of this work was to study the effect of tactile and olfactory stimuli on participants' sense of presence and cybersickness while watching a 360 video using an HMD-based IVR setup. An experiment with 48 participants and three experimental conditions (360 video, 360 video with olfactory stimulus, and 360 video with tactile stimulus) was performed. Presence and cybersickness were reported via post-test questionnaires. Statistical analysis showed a significant difference in presence between the control and the olfactory conditions. From the control to the tactile condition, mean values were higher but failed to show statistical significance. Thus, results suggest that adding an olfactory stimulus increases presence significantly while the addition of a tactile stimulus only shows a positive effect. Regarding cybersickness, no significant differences were found across conditions. We conclude that an olfactory stimulus contributes to higher presence and that a tactile stimulus, delivered in the form of cutaneous perception of wind, has no influence in presence. We further conclude that multisensory cues do not affect cybersickness.
2020
Autores
Marques, P; Padua, L; Brito, T; Sousa, JJ; Fernandes Silva, A;
Publicação
IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM
Abstract
With the continuous escalation of global warming and consequent water scarcity, techniques to optimize water use of irrigation in agriculture are needed. Thus, deficit irrigation strategies (DI) can be used for a sustainable water usage. However, it is necessary to recursively monitor plant response under DI to ensure their productivity and prevent from severe water stress. The goal of this study is to assesscanopy and soil surface temperatures of olive trees under different irrigation strategies, through thermal infrared images obtained by Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The temperatures from the different irrigation strategies were analysed with three approaches using the difference between canopy and air temperatures (Tc-Ta). The use of UAV-based thermal infrared imagery has proven to be extremely useful to the estimation of olive canopy and soil surface temperatures, which allow to discriminate different irrigation treatments.
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