Design of a Pulse Oximeter with Altitude Measurement Bluetooth Communication and Android Application

Implementation of a pulse oximeter with measurement of altitude, heart rate (HR) and oxygen saturation (SpO2) with bluetooth communication, in the need of real-time as well as remote monitoring by the therapist with the purpose of avoiding the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. With the use of bluetooth technology, the data is transmitted in real-time to a mobile phone through an application in the Android operating system, a medical history record is generated using the MIT App Inventor platform, likewise an audible alarm is activated in case the saturation level is out of range, taking into consideration the variation in oxygen saturation depending on the altitude where measurement is taken. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

The Degree of Satisfaction of Faculty Members in Jordanian Universities Towards the Use of the Video Communication Application (Zoom) in the Educational Process During the Corona Pandemic

This study aimed to measure the degree of satisfaction of faculty members in Jordanian universities towards the use of the video communication application (Zoom) in the educational process during the Corona pandemic. In this study, the researchers adopted the descriptive survey method, and to achieve the objectives of the study, a questionnaire consisting of (35) items was prepared, which included four fields. The first field was: the general design of the video communication application (Zoom). The second field was: the nature of the use of the video communication application (Zoom). The third field was: communication in the video communication application (Zoom). The fourth field was: attitudes of faculty members towards the application of the video communication application (Zoom). Afterwards, signs of its validity and reliability were extracted;also, the study sample consisted of (384) faculty members in Jordanian universities in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan for the second semester of the year 2021/2022. The results of the study showed that the degree of satisfaction of faculty members in Jordanian universities towards the use of the video communication application (Zoom) in the educational process during the Corona pandemic was high;moreover, there were statistically significant differences within the study sample that were attributed to the variables of (academic rank, specialization, experience, and gender). The study concluded with several recommendations, including the necessity of activating the video application (Zoom) in other educational stages, such as the secondary education stage and the middle education stage. It also recommended the necessity and provision of modern electronic devices and technologies in educational institutions, as well as developing programs to train faculty members on how to use and employ electronic technologies in the field of education. © 2022, Association Res Militaris. All rights reserved.

Remotely Co-Designing Features for Communication Applications using Automatic Captioning with Deaf and Hearing Pairs

Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) users face accessibility challenges during in-person and remote meetings. While emerging use of applications incorporating automatic speech recognition (ASR) is promising, more user-interface and user-experience research is needed. While co-design methods could elucidate designs for such applications, COVID-19 has interrupted in-person research. This study describes a novel methodology for conducting online co-design workshops with 18 DHH and hearing participant pairs to investigate ASR-supported mobile and videoconferencing technologies along two design dimensions: Correcting errors in ASR output and implementing notification systems for influencing speaker behaviors. Our methodological findings include an analysis of communication modalities and strategies participants used, use of an online collaborative whiteboarding tool, and how participants reconciled differences in ideas. Finally, we present guidelines for researchers interested in online DHH co-design methodologies, enabling greater geographically diversity among study participants even beyond the current pandemic. © 2022 ACM.

Development of Compound Non-Standard Word Dataset Using Crowdsourcing Method

During the COVID-19 Pandemic, many activities, such as communication and socialization are forced to be carried out through digital devices. Many communication applications have been developed to improve the users' communication experience, namely chatbots, auto-translation, sentiment analysis and many other applications. However, most Indonesian use non-standard words when communicating with each other. These non-standard words used caused the text processing software work to be nonoptimal. This research aims to create a corpus of standard and non-standard words. This corpus can then be used to normalize the non-standard word to the standard version. The crowdsourcing method was chosen to create the dataset. This research has successfully collected 371 records as final corpus data. The most common problem is the difference in respondents' perceptions in determining single or compound non-standard words. There were 5 problems found in the forming of corpus data, namely character repetition in non-standard words, various forms of loan words, typing errors, differences between respondent's answers, and expression word without standard. © 2021 IEEE.