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The Ninth International Conference on Quantum, Nano/Bio, and Micro Technologies ICQNM 2015 August 23 - 28, 2015 - Venice, Italy |
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T1. Smart Sensor Systems Design for Smartphones, Tablets and IoT: New Advanced Design Approach
Dr. Sergey Yurish, Excelera, S. L., Spain
T2. The Long Road of Quantum Computing…
Dr. Thierry Ferrus, Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory, UK
T3. Predicting Reading Comprehension and Dynamic Text Presentation in eLearning Using Eye Gaze
Prof. Dr. Tom Gedeon, Australian National University, Australia
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
T1. Smart Sensor Systems Design for Smartphones, Tablets and IoT: New Advanced Design Approach
Dr. Sergey Yurish, Excelera, S. L., Spain
Modern mobile devices market is a high growth and potentially huge market. The growing number of smart connected devices has resulted in an increase in the demand for the IoT worldwide: 25 billion devices are expected to be connected to the internet by 2015 and 50 billion by 2020, as predicted by Cisco's IBSG. IoT devices are focused on sensing and actuating of physical environment. While the IoT represents the convergence in advances miniaturization, wireless connectivity, increased data storage capacity and batteries, the IoT wouldn’t be possible without sensors. Sensors detect and measure changes in physical world and they are necessary to turn billions of objects into data-generating “things” that can report on their status, and in some cases, interact with their environment. A common requirement for IoT end nodes is the need for small size since these devices are typically constrained to a very small footprint.
The tutorial is devoted to an advanced, novel digital sensor systems design for smartphones, tablets and IoT. Coming technological limitations, and challenges will be outlined, and new design approach for such mobile devices will be described in details.
The design approach is based a smart system integration and a novel Series of integrated circuits - Universal Sensors and Transducers Interface (USTI-MOB). It allows to eliminate existing technological limitations and lets to create various multisensor systems with high metrological performance quicker and easily to make mobile devices smarter. It will drastically increase the number of sensors, which can be embedded into modern mobile devices and IoT.
The process of miniaturization and smart system integration based on the novel design approach boost the creation of multichannel, multifunction (multiparameter) one-chip smart sensors and combo sensors arrays. The integration of the USTI-MOB into sensor systems has the potential to greatly simplify the design of the system and contribute to further increasing of system level integration, flexibility and functionality. This tutorial is suitable for engineers and researchers who design and investigate various digital and intelligent sensors, data acquisition, and measurement systems for different applications. It should be also useful for digital sensors manufacturers, graduate and post graduate students.
T2. The Long Road of Quantum Computing…
Dr. Thierry Ferrus, Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory, UK
Quantum computing has become an attractive research subject since the years 2000, mostly for its capacity of using quantum objects and quantum entanglement to realise operations that could not be implemented on standard classical computers. These include the well-known factorisation of large numbers that have applications in cryptography, in particular. Nowadays many groups around the world are involved in such activities and compete for the ultimate realisation of a quantum computer. However, the initial scientific and industrial motives can be dated back as early as the 70’s, with inspirational proposals and concepts in the 50’s.
This tutorial aims at giving a general overview of the concept of quantum information with ultimately an up-to-date status of the research. To this end, the presentation is planned for a broad audience, not necessarily specialised in Quantum mechanics or Quantum information. It will articulate itself around three parts: an historical part paving the way to early ideas and insisting on the conceptual problem of transistor scaling, a second part describing several concepts of quantum mechanics and quantum information (qubit, entanglement, coherence, cloning, measurement, cryptography…), and finally, a third part that will describe the various approaches taken by the scientific community to realise a viable qubit structure. The tutorial will close with open questions that still create debates like weak measurements, as well as unsolved problems like long scale communication.
T3. Predicting Reading Comprehension and Dynamic Text Presentation in eLearning Using Eye Gaze
Prof. Dr. Tom Gedeon, Australian National University, Australia
Eye gaze detectors are becoming inexpensive, so could be used as very valuable sensors in eLearning. We describe a number of our experiments in investigating the effect of style of presentation of information in an eLearning environment, in the use of some distractions, and dynamic text presentation, all to see if we can model the effect on reading comprehension. This tutorial includes a brief description of the literature background, the eye gaze detectors we use, then discusses the HCI style experiments we have conducted, and a brief description of the analysis techniques we have used. We then discuss the results of our experiments and the (sometimes surprising) results for the design of eLearning systems.
