EAI International Conference on Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Education (eBook)

Angélica Reyes holds a Ph.D. with a Doctoral European mention from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) 2003. She has been working at the Computer Architecture Department of the UPC since 2004. Currently, she is an associate professor at the School of Telecommunications and Aerospace Engineering of Castelldefels (EETAC) and member of the ICARUS research group. Her research interests are in the fields of vehicular communications networks and cognitive workload assessment.Ping Zheng was awarded her Ph.D. in Management from University of Kent (UK) in 2007, after completing an MBA with distinction at the same school in 2003. Before embarking on an academic career, she worked as executive manager for number of years in a US-owned joint venture developing business relations between US and China. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University Business School in the UK. Prior to this she was a Lecturer at Essex Business School of University of Essex from 2006 to 2010. Her research interests range from entrepreneurship and innovation in SMEs to institutional change and firm growth strategies in emerging economies. She has published on a numerous journals, such as Journal of General Management, Thunderbird International Business Review, Futures. She received the “Best Paper Award” at the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) Annual Conference in 2010. She is also the principal author (with Prof. Richard Scase) of a book (research monograph) - “Emerging Business Ventures under Market Socialism: Entrepreneurship in China” (Routledge, London, 2014). Her recent book chapter adopts a novel future perspective in analyzing the possible future outcome of technological change, 'How change agencies can affect our path towards a signgularity' is published by Springer. David Crawford has been working as a Professor at the University of Essex at Colchester, lecturing in ‘Transmission Systems’ and ‘Intellectual Property’, and with research interests in high capacity networks and broadcasting for ‘beyond HD’ multimedia. He has worked for over 40 years in the telecoms & broadcast industries and academia, and has led both ETSI Standardisation and DVB Technical Work Groups. David is a Member of the Royal Television Society, Fellow and Council Board Member of the IET, Editor of the EBU Tech Review, Director of a small French start-up, and Executive Producer for the industry’s annual ‘IBC’ Conference in Amsterdam. David is now a staff member at Ravensbourne working as the Associate Course Leader for this Work Based Learning course, and as a Consultant helping to build up the research project portfolio at Rave.Victor Callaghan is a professor emeritus at University of Essex, Department of Computer Science. His previous positions include Head of Brooker Laboratory, Director of Industrial Collaboration, IT Policy Steering Committee, VR Steering Committee, Community Technology Committee, Academic, Assistant Editor CSE. Areas of expertise include Intelligent embedded systems, Mobile robots, Community Technology.

Introduction.- Big Data, the Internet of Things and Smart Cities Research: A Literature Review and Research Agenda.- B2C relationship quality on sharing economy under Chinese context.- Improving Higher Education Quality in Jordan using Mobile Technologies for Better Socio-economic Diversity Integration of Disadvantaged Groups using a Mobile Multimedia /Augmented Reality workflow.- Holonovel: Perspective on Enactive Narrative Intelligence.- A Scenario Centred Approach to Emotion Profiling based on EEG Signal Processing.-  A Responsive Templating Approach for Generating Collaborative Spaces.- A Study of Digital Science Fiction Prototyping in an Elementary School Setting.- CSF Dream Academy: Using Fiction, Cardboard and Simple Electrical Circuits as Educational Tools to Lift Disadvantaged Children Out of the Poverty Trap.- Using a Creative Science Approach for Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Postgraduate Students.- Developing the Business Process Management Performance of an Information System Using the Delphi Study Technique.- Logistic Model Based Evaluation of Anti-Counterfeiting Effectiveness for Consumer Goods.- Idea validation for an acceleration program connected with equity based crowdfunding.- Omni-channel Service Architectures in a Technology-based Business Network: An Empirical Insight.- Science Fiction Prototypes Illustrating Future Digital See-Through Structures in Mobile Work Machines.- Teaching Creativity in the Context of a Business School.- Enhancing Student Retention and Engagement within Higher Education.- Educating Responsible Innovators-to-be: Hands-on Participation with Biotechnology.- Smart Enhanced Context-Aware for Flipped Mobile Learning: SECA-FML.- Designing interactive tools for learning in the digital age.- Semantic-based Search Engine System for Graph Images in Academic Literature.- A Low-Cost Portable Health Platform for the Monitoring of Human Physiological Signals.- ICT Technologies that are Essential to Smart Cities Dimensions.- Creating Content for Educational Testing Using a Workflow that Supports Automatic Item Generation.- Alternative Learning Experiences: An Innovative Project Stimulating Creative faculty of Humanities Students.- The shape of firms: opportunities from rapid manufacturing.- Conclusion.