Scopus ID: 85127610590
2021 IEEE 13th International Conference on Humanoid, Nanotechnology, Information Technology, Communication and Control, Environment, and Management (HNICEM), (2021), pp. 1-5
Conference Paper | Published: January 1, 2021
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VIP-Guide: Development of Pedestrian Crossing Guide for the Visually Impaired people aims to help in the difficulties encountered in walking alone of the visually impaired persons on the streets, in crossing pedestrian lanes and identification of obstacles that might be in front of them. With the system, it will be able to aid them in terms of the different notifications provided by the system. Location from GPS module, Sound and vibration that alerts them whenever there is an obstacle detected. Upon crossing the street, a counter which is synchronized with the system counting on when to cross the street safely was also provided. Visually impaired persons will no longer need a companion whenever they will go outside. The VIP-Guide will be their companion that will surely make them safe even if they are alone and in the outdoors. A cane was also part of the system which will help them on the notification if an obstacle is near. It has a button that would allow the user to press it when an emergency takes place, will send its location through SMS, such feature will then be an aid for them to ask for help. A part of the system allows the user to connect an earphone to be able to hear notifications from the system, such as, “stop and go”, “do not cross” and a sound of the counter which is synchronized to the system’s counter on the traffic light. This feature will surely aid and guide visually impaired persons in their daily activities outside of their homes.
Scopus ID: 85127584267
2021 IEEE 13th International Conference on Humanoid, Nanotechnology, Information Technology, Communication and Control, Environment, and Management (HNICEM), (2021), pp. 1-6
Conference Paper | Published: January 1, 2021
Abstract
Quezon City is highly urbanized, it is both large and vast, covering one-third of the total land area of Metro Manila. It boasts a rapidly growing income and occupation for its population, the city with the most people. With the Philippines situated along the Pacific Ring of Fire and the path of the Typhoon Belt, this makes it susceptible to many natural disasters, not just storms and earthquakes. These disasters include floods, landslides, and volcanic eruptions, sometimes these disasters happen consequently or much worse, altogether. The creation of a disaster management system is vital to aid the people of Quezon City. In this study the researchers have developed an Incident Management System for the Quezon City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, named AlertQC.
Scopus ID: 85127588001
2021 IEEE 13th International Conference on Humanoid, Nanotechnology, Information Technology, Communication and Control, Environment, and Management (HNICEM), (2021), pp. 1-6
Conference Paper | Published: January 1, 2021
Abstract
Nutrition research is now entering the subfield of personalized nutrition, where dietetics professionals are using it as an approach to support individuals in formulating unique dietary interventions and guidelines. Despite a large number of meal recommender systems that endeavors to incorporate the concept of personalized nutrition, the existing artifacts remain preliminary in the nutritional health context largely due to lack of integrated nutrition knowledge. Hence, a nutrition system called Virtual Dietitian (VD) was developed and grounded on the Nutrition Care Process and Model. Unfortunately, the beta evaluation (Phase 1) revealed some vital modifications that are needed to accomplish as per the feedback from experts. Hence, another sprint of development was achieved to comply with the requirements set forth by experts. This study reports the alpha evaluation (Phase 2) of 397 non-expert users on the revised VD on three factors: acceptability, usability, and quality. Using the scores from these factors, statistical analyses were performed to determine if there were significant differences between these scores and variables linked to users’ profile. Results show that VD passed on all factors, and there were significant differences between the scores and users’ profile (living condition, current physical activity, nutritional status, monthly household income, and average daily meals). Several recommendations were still offered on how to move beyond the existing features of VD and with considerations to relevant modern technologies.
Scopus ID: 85127578446
2021 IEEE 13th International Conference on Humanoid, Nanotechnology, Information Technology, Communication and Control, Environment, and Management (HNICEM), (2021), pp. 1-5
Conference Paper | Published: January 1, 2021
Abstract
The study observes the Pandemic Crisis (Covid 19) that resulted in impacts on the Transportation category in the area National Capital Region. Public transportation is an important aspect of human’s ability to travel to different places whether its personal or business purpose, it’s a part of life that people take for granted and can’t be taken away easily. But due to the pandemic era, people have been careful in their choices, which resulted in the change standard when it comes to public transportation choices. With that said, to understand and observe these impacts, a scenario must be made such as before and after the pandemic designed as an environment for the study to take root. The study has used machine learning called Random Forest Algorithm with the used several parameters to create a prediction model. As for the method in gathering data, a survey of Google Form is utilized to gather 200 participants of the National Capital Region with varying parameters for their choice of public transportation. The machine algorithm has shown satisfactory accuracy of 89.88% and 88.88%. As an important note, it is observed that travel expense has more impact on public transportation choices than other parameters. The Random Forest Algorithm has been utilized in creating classification types of models and can help future researchers improve the machine learning approach.
Scopus ID: 85127574002
2021 IEEE 13th International Conference on Humanoid, Nanotechnology, Information Technology, Communication and Control, Environment, and Management (HNICEM), (2021), pp. 1-6
Jeric Bustarde, Juan Miguel Cruz, ... Mark Ondac
Conference Paper | Published: January 1, 2021
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Since the start of the 2019 pandemic, medical staff and non-medical staff are fighting on the front line in all hospitals worldwide. However, the possibility of healthcare workers’ scarcity due to the increasing medical infection rate is ignored in many recent studies. To prevent such things to happen, the installation of a negative air pressure isolation room is proposed to Norzagaray Municipal Hospital (NMH). Primary parameters such as filtration, pressure management, and dilution ventilation were investigated in SOLIDWORKS simulation software by removing one parameter per simulation. Two existing schemes were simulated, and the primary parameters present were evaluated. Three ventilation design set-ups were designed and the effects of the varying placements of the primary parameters to the airflow pattern in a negative air pressure isolation room were determined. Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) was conducted to determine if the cost of installing the negative air pressure room outweighs its benefit. The set-up where the High efficiency particulate air (HEPA) machine is inside the room is proposed to NMH as this abides by the Department of Health (DOH) memorandum and standards on Airborne Infection Isolation Rooms (AIIRs) and is the most effective of the three set-ups. Results show that filtration filters the infectious particles, pressure management manages the proper airflow direction, and dilution ventilation makes sure there are enough air changes per hour to filter a percentage of infectious particles. In the existing schemes, all the primary parameters were used to contain the infectious particles in the room, however, the effectivity of the filtration also depends on the location of the patient, supply, and exhaust. The most significant effect of the varying placements of the primary parameters can be seen in filtration as only the set-up where the HEPA machine is inside the room was able to filter 100% of the infectious particles. It is also the most profitabl...
Scopus ID: 85127591332
2021 IEEE 13th International Conference on Humanoid, Nanotechnology, Information Technology, Communication and Control, Environment, and Management (HNICEM), (2021), pp. 1-4
Conference Paper | Published: January 1, 2021
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Structures built on high seismic areas are likely to experience earthquake liquefaction. This in turn will compromise the integrity of the structures and thus, assessment of the susceptibility to liquefaction is essential. To evaluate the likelihood and severity of earthquake induced liquefaction particularly in the 2nd district of Laguna, 74 geotechnical reports from various locations were collected. Using deterministic approach, safety factors and liquefaction severity index were calculated at different locations to generate liquefaction probability and severity maps. Results showed that there is a wide range of liquefaction severity levels from very low severity of 3.8% of the areas to high severity of 5.06% of the areas. The probability map further showed that an average of 90.49% of the areas are susceptible to liquefaction when an 8.0 earthquake magnitude occurs. The developed maps can be used by site planners and engineers to identify the severity of liquefaction at specific locations and appropriately apply remedial measures in the design of structures.
Scopus ID: 85127556927
2021 IEEE 13th International Conference on Humanoid, Nanotechnology, Information Technology, Communication and Control, Environment, and Management (HNICEM), (2021), pp. 1-6
Conference Paper | Published: January 1, 2021
Abstract
It is clear that since the COVID-19 pandemic started in the Philippines, education is one of the most affected areas. After more than a year of struggling with different community lockdowns and the alarming consistency with the increasing number of confirmed cases each day, students and teachers are now left with the choice to voice out their frustrations, activism, opinions, and ideas regarding online classes through different social networking sites, most especially Twitter. With the influx of tweets available in the internet sphere, the authors of this study decided to conduct a sentiment analysis to categorize the overall opinions of Filipino citizens about the current state of education after more than a year of adapting with the distance learning practices that are now considered as the new normal. The authors utilized rtweet, a built-in package available in R programming to perform opinion mining on Twitter data collected through the package related to online class during pandemic. Through sentiment lexicons available in R such as bing and afinn, the results show that most of the tweets about online learning in the Philippines turned out to be neutral. The positive responses are 55.77% while 44.23% of the sentiments collected are negative. To evaluate the accuracy rates of results, the authors used three classification techniques namely Naïve Bayes, logistic regression, and random forest. Naïve bayes and logistic regression both show 69.23% accuracy rate and random forest calculated 71.15% accuracy in identifying whether the given tweet is a positive, negative, or neutral sentiment.
Scopus ID: 85127610513
2021 IEEE 13th International Conference on Humanoid, Nanotechnology, Information Technology, Communication and Control, Environment, and Management (HNICEM), (2021), pp. 1-6
Conference Paper | Published: January 1, 2021
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Automatic feeders remain the greatest alternative for feeding fish to replace the human technique, and they are also the cheapest and most accurate method due to the low cost of microcontrollers. The study aims to design a project that would automatically dispense feed based on the user’s preferences through timer and message the owner thru GSM, if the feeding process was done. Prototypes are used to see if design perform as they are supposed to. According to development and testing the project was proven that the design was effective and efficient. Based on the result of the evaluation. The proponents found out that the majority of the respondents agreed that the proposed application has met. The proposed application will be a great help to the fishermen and aquarium owners because they will be relaxing and defendant to the application.
Scopus ID: 85127580665
2021 IEEE 13th International Conference on Humanoid, Nanotechnology, Information Technology, Communication and Control, Environment, and Management (HNICEM), (2021), pp. 1-6
Conference Paper | Published: January 1, 2021
Abstract
The scope of this study folds out the terms of electrical power output generated by the combustion of methane gas in the production of the portable anaerobic digester in kilo Watthour. When the gas flow meter indicated that there is sufficient gas to enter the generator, gas chromatography will again be conducted this time to ensure that the entering gas is really methane. Since there is small load to be powered and only 0.3 m3 of methane that would enter the generator, 1 kW generator would be used to yield sufficient energy which is equivalent to theoretical value of 4.5811 kWh (usable energy) as further explained.
Scopus ID: 85127599093
2021 IEEE 13th International Conference on Humanoid, Nanotechnology, Information Technology, Communication and Control, Environment, and Management (HNICEM), (2021), pp. 1-5
Conference Paper | Published: January 1, 2021
Abstract
As people remain confined in their homes, more and more turn to the internet and social media daily for support, comfort, opportunities, and access to information. This presents an opportunity for businesses and e-commerce platforms to harness their own data and reach wide audiences through social media. An online store, Anywhere Fitness PH, took this opportunity which was launched to bring gym equipment to the comfort and safety of the homes of its consumers. However, the client, Anywhere Fitness PH, struggled in customer reviews and difficulties with its current e-commerce platforms. The researchers proposed a web application system that will provide their client an e-commerce platform that will utilize data analytics and sentiment analysis for its customer reviews and provide further improvements for the overall business operations of the client. The system passed for both evaluation of Customer Interface and Admin Interface with means of 4.27 and 4.49 respectively, making the Overall Evaluation have a mean of 4.3S. All means are interpreted as “Strongly Agree” which means that the admins, the non-IT, and the IT staff strongly agree that the system passed Functionality, Usability, Reliability, Performance, Security, pertaining that the system is now ready for the use of the client.