For 2021, all events will be held in a hybrid mode with five options: on site or virtual choices (live, prerecorded videos, voiced presentation slides, and .pdf slides).

We hope for better times allowing us to return to the traditional on site scientific events. However, we are ready to adapt any which way the conditions dictate.

TrendNews 2021 Congress

Conference will be mixed online and on location at

NOVOTEL Athenes Hotel
4-8 Michail Voda str.
104 39 Athens - Greece

Note: This event is a mix of online and on site participation. All contributions are posted below; those presenting onsite have their own schedule, as a subset of the entire program.

Opening Welcome

On Site Program

Tutorials

myGeoffice.org, A Web Platform for Spatial Analysis
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Samia Loucif, Zayed University, UAE
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Joao Negreiros, Zayed University, UAE
- short bio for Samia Loucif
- short bio for Joao Negreiros
- short description
- video presentation
- presentation slides

The Use of Images in Digital Agriculture
Dr. Lorena Parra Boronat, Universitat Politècnica de València, València  & Instituto Madrileño de Investigación y Desarrollo Rural, Agrario y Alimentario, Madrid, Spain
- short bio
- short description
- video presentation
- presentation slides

Keynote Speeches

Detecting Passenger Number in a Moving Vehicle with Public Transportation Data
Assist. Prof. Jack (Yunpeng) Zhang, University of Houston, USA
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

AI-Centric Cyber Laboratory Services: Operationalizing White Box Architectures for Fuzzers
Dr. Steve Chan, Decision Engineering Analysis Laboratory, USA
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

Blockchain in the Smart City - Participation and Democratic Involvement
Prof. Dr. Lasse Berntzen, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

Immersive Storytelling in Augmented, Mixed, and Virtual Reality: Technologies and Applications
Assist Prof Krzysztof Pietroszek, Institute for IDEAS / American University, Washington, USA
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

Streamed media and Quality of Experience (QoE)
Assist Prof Jounsup Park, The University of Texas at Tyler, USA
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

Utilizing Fuzzy Sets Qualitative Comparative Analysis to Identify the Necessary Conditions that a User Review Expresses a Highly Positive Sentiment
Prof. Dr. Dimitris K. Kardaras, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

TrendNews Experts Panel

Citizen Data Protection:  Ownership Challenges in the Digital Transformation Era
(personal data, data protection, citizen protection, data classification, invasion protection, accountability on data use, moral and legal aspects, etc.)

Chair
Petre Dini, IARIA, USA/EU

Panelists
Anders Fongen, Norwegian Defence University College, Norway
Stavroula Barbounaki, Merchant Marine Academy of Aspropyrgos, Greece
Eszter Oroszi, National University of Public Services, Hungary
Dimitris K. Kardaras, Athens University of Economics and Business

Special Track

DIGITAL 2021 DigitalXR: XR-Driven Digital Transformation of Design, Training, and Education

LIVE:
Time: Wednesday, November 17, 7:00am NY / 8:00pm Beijing / 2:00pm Athens
Zoom: https://gmu.zoom.us/j/99316247461
[time zone reference: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/]

Introduction
Wanwan Li
- presentation slides / editorial

Digital Transformation from Traditional Education Towards VR Education : Case Study Plans
Luxia Dong
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Make OS Home: Home-Like Operating System in Virtual Reality
Wanwan Li
- presentation slides / video / demo / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Heuristics about Arcade Game Design in a Comfortable Rhythm [PRESENTATION]
Shichen Li
- presentation slides / video

A Decision Tool Based on Mobile Sensing for Social Anxiety Disorder among University of Virginia (UVA) Students [PRESENTATION]
Shichen  Li
- presentation slides / video

Evaluation of Machine Learning Classifiers Detecting Glaucoma Based on Deep Convolutional Neural Network [PRESENTATION]
Shichen  Li
- presentation slides / video

Regular Sessions

DIGITAL 2021, Advances on Societal Digital Transformation

Dimensions of Fake News
Paulina Schindler, Marek Opuszko, Meena Stoebesand
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

An Agent-based Model for Simulating Travel Patterns of Stroke Patients
Abdulrahman Alassadi, Fabian Lorig, Johan Holmgren
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Exploring Adolescents' Experiences with Personalized Content on Social Media: A Qualitative Study
Ashley Rebecca Bell, Merete Kolberg Tennfjord, Miroslava Tokovska, Ragnhild Eg
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

An Object-Based Refocusing Scheme for Light Field Video Content
Nusrat Mehajabin, Yixiao Wang, Hamid Reza Tohidypour, Panos Nasiopoulos, Mahsa Pourazad
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Chaos-based Protection Data for Digital Communication
Belqassim Bouteghrine, Camel Tanougast, Said Sadoudi, Mohammed Rabiai
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

LIVE: IslandPaint: Digital Painting Floating Island Design
Wanwan Li
- presentation slides / video / demo / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library
Time: Wednesday, November 17, 7:00am NY / 8:00pm Beijing / 2:00pm Athens
Zoom: https://gmu.zoom.us/j/99316247461
[time zone reference: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/]

CORETA 2021, Advances on Core Technologies and Applications

Phobia Treatment: Virtual Reality Approach
Samia Loucif, Joao Negreiros, Batool Haj Stifi, Sara Iqbal
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

LIVE: ShareHandy: Peer Teaching Support System for Online Exercises of IoT Prototyping
Shiryu Sekiguchi, Tsuyoshi Nakajima
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library
Time: Tuesday Nov 16, 9:00pm Tokyo / 2:00pm Athens / 7:00am NY
The Zoom URL for the two presentations is:
https://shibaura-it.zoom.us/j/97891496347
[time zone reference: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/]

LIVE: A Method for Analyzing Improper Driving Using Passenger’s Danger Perceptions
Kensho Nishizawa, Tsuyoshi Nakajima
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library
Time: Tuesday Nov 16, 9:00pm Tokyo / 2:00pm Athens / 7:00am NY
The Zoom URL for the two presentations is:
https://shibaura-it.zoom.us/j/97891496347
[time zone reference: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/]

An Architecture for Detection of Anomalies in Deterministic Time within Real-Time Communication Networks
Christian Maier, Jia Lei Du, Stefan Fahrthofer, Peter Dorfinger
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Farewell Message