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Going into 2021 many European countries have faced subsequent strong waves of COVID-19 infections that forced governments to reestablish many of the restrictions imposed in the 2020 spring, after a period of relative calm in the summer when the pandemic ...

Falls are one of the greatest risks for older adults living at home. They are also one of the biggest factors impacting independence and quality of life. Falling and even the fear of falling can lead to serious physical and mental health issues. ...

Touch screen interactions have been linked to repetitive strain injuries. Their use as an input channel to user interfaces can also have limitations due to screen size or mobility constraints. In this work, we investigate the feasibility of a neck-...

In recent years, we have witnessed the proliferation of large amounts of online content generated directly by users with virtually no form of external control, leading to the possible spread of misinformation. The search for effective solutions to this ...

In the last decade, Online Social Networks (OSNs) have emerged as one of the most disruptive communication platforms with high socio-economic value, used every day by billions of users to connect with friends, colleagues, and any other user with social ...

The decentralization of Social Media applications has gained importance in the last years. In this direction, the HELIOS project has been proposed in order to provide a decentralized platform for social applications. Among these several social ...

Diseases transmitted by mosquito vectors such as malaria, dengue, and Zika virus are amongst the largest healthcare concerns across the globe today. To tackle such life-threatening diseases, it is vital to evaluate the risk of transmission. Of critical ...

Counting mosquitoes in the wild is a crucial capability for monitoring, prediction, and control of vector-borne diseases. Current approaches are mainly manual, where specially designed mosquito traps or ovitraps are placed in areas of interest and ...

The steady deployment of IoT is paving the road toward concrete implementations of the smart city concept, allowing public/private institutions to sense and model (near) real-time digital replicas of physical processes and environments. This Digital ...

The fifth generation of mobile cellular networks (5G) will bring many improvements to our everyday lives. In particular, the interplay between 5G and IoT technologies will pave the way for the realisation of the Smart City concept, providing humans with ...

Time series forecasting with additional spatial information has attracted a tremendous amount of attention in recent research, due to its importance in various real-world applications on social studies, such as conflict prediction and pandemic ...

Tourism and hospitality have shown to be one of the pioneering sectors in the sharing economy, taking advantages of a collaborative and peer-to-peer market model. In this context, we present ShareCities, a system that allows tourists to exploit a 360° ...

Due to the dynamic nature of changes in various ICT technologies nowadays, the gaps between industry, research, and academia need to be bridged in order to adequately support STEM students towards their future career paths. With the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

A major roadblock in machine learning for healthcare is the inability of data to be shared broadly, due to privacy concerns. Privacy preserving synthetic data generation is increasingly being seen as a solution to this problem. However, since healthcare ...

Lithium-ion battery technologies play a key role in transforming the economy reducing its dependency on fossil fuels. Transportation, manufacturing, and services are being electrified. The European Commission predicts that in Europe everything that can ...

This study investigated how staff working at a Danish nursing home experienced, perceived, and used circadian lighting for two years after its installation. The purpose of the installed circadian lighting was to improve the staff and residents' health ...

Despite the increasing concerns on sustainability issues worldwide, IoT devices are still being designed unsustainably, and often end up as e-waste in landfill after a very short lifespan. This state of affairs is alarming, as we expect hundreds of ...

Every year, in Europe alone, hundreds of workers die by falling from high height. This number could be greatly reduced by means of better training and quick detection of individuals with issues toward work at height. Workers proving to be less suited ...

Cloud computing has become one of the most important technologies that have changed the traditional application development and operation (DevOps) lifecycle. However, current cloud software DevOps often faces the following key challenges: 1) selecting ...

The ADAPT project started during the most critical phase of the COVID-19 outbreak in Europe when the demand for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) from each country's healthcare system surpassed national stock amounts. Due to national shutdowns, ...

Recently, a new generation of P2P systems capable of addressing data integrity and authenticity has emerged for the development of new applications for a "more" decentralized Internet, i.e., Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) and Decentralized File ...

The rising of online social platforms makes large volumes of data about social relationships and interactions available to the research community. In the varied ecosystem of techno-social platforms, blockchain-based online social networks - BOSNs - are ...

The worldwide spread of the COVID-19 disease has required the adoption of restrictions to protect public health. These rules have heavily changed the access to working places, damaging in-person business, which is still the core of global and local ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the biggest health crises in recent memory. According to leading scientists, face masks and maintaining six feet of social distancing are the most substantial protections to limit the virus's spread. Experimental ...

We describe the work behind a privacy-preserving, crowdsensing approach that promotes social distancing upon the return of students to University. Our main motivation is enabling visualizations that predict room occupancy based on the number of ...

In crises, citizens show changes in their information behavior, which is mediated by trust in sources, personal relations, online and offline news outlets and information and communication technologies such as apps and social media. Through a repeated ...

The aim of this study was to provide engagement with and awareness of the plastic crisis through a serious game, as part of the UN Sustainable Development Goal 12 by targeting students ages 17-21. The study is based on 32 participants, who were included ...

With the increase in the number of people aged 60 years and older, it becomes essential to promote active ageing. Adequate cognitive training activity can preserve older adults' health conditions, allowing them to live autonomously longer. However, ...

Several neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and intellectual developmental disorders (including Down syndrome), are characterized by deficits in motor coordination, ...

Digital games can be designed and used to improve many specific skills, related to both cognitive and sensory-motor goals. A set of novel mini-games explicitly aimed to children with severe visual impairments are presented. The games are played by ...