ABSTRACT
A lesson learned during the pandemic is that social distancing saves lives. As it was shown recently, the healthcare industry is structured in a way that cannot protect medical staff from possible infectious diseases, such as COVID-19. Today's healthcare services seem anachronistic and not convenient for both doctors and patients. Although there have been several advances in recent years, especially in developed countries, the need for a holistic change is imperative. Evidently, future technologies should be introduced in the health sector, where Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Tactile Internet can have vast applications. Thus, the healthcare industry could take advantage of the great evolution of pervasive computing. In this paper, we point out the challenges from the current visualization techniques and present a novel visualization technique assisted with haptics which is enhanced with artificial intelligent algorithms in order to offer remote patient examination and treatment through robotics. Such an approach provides a more detailed method of medical image data visualization and eliminates the possibility of diseases spreading, while reducing the workload of the medical staff. © 2023 by the authors.
ABSTRACT
Nowadays., the advancement of artificial intelligence has led to the application of robotic systems in the industry, especially in the hotel industry, with a view to providing intelligent, automated and luxury services. At the same time, the knowledge gained from the Covid19 pandemic outbreak that convulses the world community, highlights the issue of sustainability in the hotel industry, solved by utilizing artificial intelligence achievements, remote robot systems, so as to guarantee reliability and security of a hotel's functionality, by providing not only convenient accommodation to guests, but safety, as well. In this paper, we focus on the development of a remote robot system, utilizing the Internet of Things, that has various kinds of sensors and cameras. Both the owners of the hotel and the guests can collaborate with the robot efficiently and accurately, since the robot is able to react with them. Specifically, the developed robot is able to serve clients, by providing them with hotel supplies and by giving them any requested information. In return, the guests are requested to give feedback to the robot upon check out. In addition, the robot browses throughout the hotel to inspect the normal and efficient functionality of all technical systems. The developed robot is also a Covid19 inspector, since it inspects whether one's pandemic measures are applied among guests in public areas and in case of a patient, the robot detects people connected to the patient, isolates the patient and gives medical care, food and supplies, so as to prevent humans from closely contacting the patient. © 2022 IEEE.
ABSTRACT
The speedy development of immersive technologies and unexpected situations like the COVID-19 pandemic are expected to boost the application of extended reality (XR) in tourism. Virtualization techniques can create a virtual environment identical to the real one, giving to the user the feeling of actually being there. The aim of haptic systems is to enhance the degree of immersion into a virtual environment by intensifying the skill of physical interaction with people and objects in the distant space. The advancement of cellular networks enables haptic data transmission over high data rate and low latency wireless communication to create ambient haptic experience. The contribution of this research is to describe how XR and haptics are able to reshape tourism industry and present insights for tourism involved parties.
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This era is characterized by the rapid evolution of technology and its application in all sectors of day to day life. At the same time, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the distance education as vital, compulsory and worldwide, for Educational Institutions. The attainments of technology are set at the service of education and the problem of security and privacy in online learning is emerged. This paper focuses on the development of a secure online learning system, which utilizes edge computing and privacy mechanisms, such as trust evaluation from direct and indirect observations. The proposed system provides to the Educational Institutions the advantage of conducting online courses, by ensuring privacy in communication for students, professors and the Organization.