Gamification, Social Networks and Sustainable Environments

Silva, Fábio; Analide, César; Rosa, Luís; Felgueiras, Gilberto; Pimenta, Cedric

doi:10.9781/ijimai.2013.246

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“…The model described in this article was tested as a complimentary module to the sustainability framework PHESS (Fabio Silva, Analide, Rosa, Felgueiras, and Pimenta, 2013). Its aims are to produce and generate knowledge that can be used to perform decisions and suggestions that have a direct impact on sustainability and the sustainability of user's actions.…”

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confidence: 99%

Traffic Expression through Ubiquitous and Pervasive Sensorization - Smart Cities and Assessment of Driving Behaviour

Silva

Analide

Nováis

2015

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems

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The number of portable and wearable devices has been increasing in the population of most developed countries. Meanwhile, the capacity to monitor and register not only data about people's habits and locations but also more complex data such as intensity and strength of movements has created an opportunity to their contribution to the general wealth and sustainability of environments. Ambient Intelligence and Intelligent Decision Making processes can benefit from the knowledge gathered by these devices to improve decisions on everyday tasks such as planning navigation routes by car, bicycle or other means of transportation and avoiding route perils. Current applications in this area demonstrate the usefulness of real time system that inform the user of conditions in the surrounding area. Nevertheless, the approach in this work aims to describe models and approaches to automatically identify current states of traffic inside cities and relate such information with knowledge obtained from historical data recovered by ubiquitous and pervasive devices. Such objective is delivered by analysing real time contributions from those devices and identifying hazardous situations and problematic sites under defined criteria that has significant influence towards user well-being, economic and environmental aspects, as defined is the sustainability definition.

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Traffic Expression through Ubiquitous and Pervasive Sensorization - Smart Cities and Assessment of Driving Behaviour

Silva

Analide

Nováis

2015

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems

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“…Currently investigations are being carried aim to identify the instructional uses of virtual worlds such as those developed by the National Science Foundation (NSF), New Media Consortium (NMC), EDUCAUS, American Educational Research Association (AERA), Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) and International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) [25]. Going beyond of entertainment, the video games, we provide lots of information [26], as the time has been playing, the time between an interaction and other, time to solve a task, the number of attempts for successful achievement of an activity, the decisions made in the development of a task, the sequence of the same and the results obtained by a student in relation to the whole class.…”

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An approach to assessment of video game-based learning using structural equation model

Barón

Salinas

Crespo

2014

2014 9th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI)

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Instructional activities should allow applying the knowledge acquired in the day by day and in real situations. Different studies evidence the potential impact of video games on learning, however very few empirical studies that focus on continuous assessment. On the other hand, because the variables that influence the achievement of learning objectives are different levels becomes complex to validation the effectiveness of an assessment of game-based learning, therefore, it is necessary to test inferences on academic development, testing hypotheses rigorous causal. We propose the use of multivariate analysis based on structural equation modeling as it facilitates the establishment of dependency relationships, to validate the proposal; we have performed an empirical test analytical applying a sequence of scenarios different to stimulate cognitive function of planning in a child population.

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“…In [45], aspects of gamification were applied to motivate users to adopt and develop proactive behaviors in an intelligent environment scenario. The authors use indicators (extracted from sensor readings) to assess the energy efficiency of different rooms in a building.…”

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Smart Grid for the Smart City

Bonetto

Rossi

2016

Designing, Developing, and Facilitating Smart Cities

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Modern cities are becoming more and more dependent on the reliability and efficiency of the electrical distribution infrastructure. In the past few years, a great effort has been devoted to the creation of an integrated infrastructure that combines a resilient power distribution system, distributed generation devices based on renewables (as, for example, photovoltaic panels and wind turbines), a reliable and secure communication system, and real-time energy pricing policies. The resulting infrastructure is called smart grid and constitutes the backbone of the smart city. As noted in [22], "The smart city is all about how the city "organism" works together as an integrated whole and survives when put under extreme conditions" and, moreover: "the energy infrastructure is arguably the single most important feature in any city. If unavailable for a significant enough period of time, all other functions will eventually cease." Hence, developing and implementing a fully functional smart grid infrastructure is a priority for future smart cities.In order to implement a smart grid, at least the following three technical domains must cooperate, namely: (i) power electronics, (ii) information and communication technology (ICT), and (iii) economics.From a power electronics standpoint, the diffusion of distributed energy resources (DERs) poses a number of interesting challenges that the future power distribution grid must face to evolve into a smart power distribution grid. On the one hand, the presence of grid connected DERs (i.e., DC power generators connected to the main power distribution system through grid-tie inverters or capacitor banks) must be carefully handled to maintain acceptable electrical power quality. In particular, voltage sags (overvoltages) due to the switch off (on) of groups of DERs must be avoided. Moreover, harmonic distortion must be minimized, since it is one of the major factors degrading the overall power quality [18]. On the other hand, if the presence

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Gamification, Social Networks and Sustainable Environments

Cited by 10 publications

References 25 publications

Traffic Expression through Ubiquitous and Pervasive Sensorization - Smart Cities and Assessment of Driving Behaviour

Traffic Expression through Ubiquitous and Pervasive Sensorization - Smart Cities and Assessment of Driving Behaviour

An approach to assessment of video game-based learning using structural equation model

Smart Grid for the Smart City

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