According to the World Health Organization, 2.2 billion people globally have some vision impairment. Blind and vision impairment children can undergo poor motor, language, and cognitive evolution, bringing lower levels of educational success. Our proposal aims to design and develop a one-character refreshable braille display that is affordable and easy to use through the Internet of Things (IoT) technology. Reading is essential to acquire knowledge by allowing an affordable form of reading based on braille, a handy tool for teaching and training blind and visually impaired peop...

Genomic selection (GS) changed the way plant breeders select genotypes. GS takes advantage of phenotypic and genotypic information to training a statistical machine learning model, which is used to predict phenotypic (or breeding) values of new lines for which only genotypic information is available. Therefore, many statistical machine learning methods have been proposed for this task. Multi-trait (MT) genomic prediction models take advantage of correlated traits to improve prediction accuracy. Therefore, some multivariate statistical machine learning methods are popular for GS...

Intelligence capabilities will be the cornerstone in the development of next-generation cognitive networks. These capabilities allow them to observe network conditions, learn from them, and then, using prior knowledge gained, respond to its operating environment to optimize network performance. This study aims to offer an overview of the current state of the art related to the use of deep learning in applications for intelligent cognitive networks that can serve as a reference for future initiatives in this field. For this, a systematic literature review was carried out in thre...

With the accelerated adoption of technology in the educational field and the increased amounts of data generated, the creation of systems that facilitate decision-making in this scenario is a priority. This paper presents a design proposal for a Balanced Scorecard system to support educational management in Higher Education Institutions. Using user-centered methods, a first prototype was developed to validate the proposal viability and effectiveness, and key indicators were proposed to feed the system. With this approach, educational managers can make informed decisions about the current state...

This work presents i-CARE, a mobile application based on emerging technologies for the remote monitoring of physiological variables of pediatric pain. This system uses the Internet of Medical Things and Biofeedback paradigms that allow children to learn the self-regulation of physiological variables, oxygen saturation, and heart rate frequency interactively and playfully. After using i-CARE for a month and a half, participants of this study changed their perception of pain, but not physiological variables. i-CARE was evaluated using TAM and SUS test, and both were adapted to the hospital child...

This book is the result of the experience of its authors who, from their disciplinary perspective, raise the need to work in constant change through innovation in Information Technology (IT) and that aims to be useful and informative both for the academia, as for the health sector and industry.The work is organized into three categories and seven chapters: The first is dedicated to health and it deals with IT applications that promote a better quality of life for their users. The second deals with IT applications in education, which details the development of tools that are aimed at being full...

The book was designed as an introduction for those who are new to digital electronics and microcontrollers and want to dive into the world of embedded systems, with a project-based approach for the ease of readers. Basic knowledge of digital circuits and C / C ++ programming is desirable, but it is written for people just starting out with digital electronics projects. It was intended to acquire knowledge while creating projects such as measuring the temperature and air quality of the environment, to continue with projects that have an Internet connection with a focus on IoT, and end with proj...