Field usability research involves observing people in their own environments—for example, workplaces, homes, and schools—to learn their normal or natural behavior. Through fie...
Magnetic stripe cards are in common use for electronic payments and cash withdrawal. Reported incidents document that criminals easily pickpocket cards or skim them by swiping the...
Model abstraction using metamodeling has demonstrated the capability to facilitate software reuse, large scale model integration, verification, and validation. Once restricted to...
In this paper, a new compression method for constant removal from very large scientific and statistical databases is presented. The new method combines the best features from seve...
Videotext refers to text superimposed on video frames. A videotext based Multimedia Description Scheme has recently been adopted into the MPEG-7 standard. A study of published wor...