Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality by Elias Aboujaoude

By Elias Aboujaoude

Whereas the web can increase health, Elias Aboujaoude has spent years treating sufferers whose lives were profoundly disturbed by way of it. a part of the chance lies in how the net permits us to behave with exaggerated self assurance, sexiness, and aura. Aboujaoude dubs this new self our “e-personality” and argues that its characteristics are too powerful to be restricted on-line. Offline, too, we’re changing into impatient, unfocused, and urge-driven. Virtually You attracts from Aboujaoude’s own event to focus on this new phenomenon. the 1st scrutiny of the digital world’s transformative energy on our psychology, Virtually You demonstrates how actual lifestyles is being reconfigured within the snapshot of a talk room, and the way our identification more and more resembles that of our avatar.

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In Europe, part of the academic research work focused on IoT has been developed within projects funded by the EU Comission (under the Framework Programmes, ITEA or Artemis initiatives). Many of these projects are coordinated by the European Research Cluster on the Internet of Things (IERC) [24]. The IERC was founded within the FP7 in order to manage the wide range of results and applications from the European projects on IoT, and to coordinate Exploring Major Architectural Aspects of the Web of Things 27 the on-going activities facilitating knowledge sharing, not only at European level but also at a global level.

The rest of the Chapter is organized as follows. Section 2 discusses open research challenges related to the IoT and the WoT, highlighting proposals that address the problem from both industry and academical perspectives. e. the Web of Things Open Platform and the Resource-Oriented and Ontology-Driven, respectively. Section 5 describes the case study deployed for validating our contributions that were theoretically explained in previous sections. Conclusions of the Chapter and a outlook to research challenges are included in Sect.

They are fixed nodes associated to those places. Exceptionally, there will be one or more mobile nodes based on the Cricket platform. The mobile node is used to transmit two concurrent message based on the combination of RF and ultrasound technologies. 5 Note that the Cricket network is connected to the Smart Gateway through a proxy according to the method explained in Sect. 3. The rest of embedded nodes are directly integrated into the Smart Gateway. Beyond the networks of embedded sensor and actuator nodes, the infrastructure is also composed of user devices that are provided to the clients of the smart shop.

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