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In the context of Activities of Daily Living, a human action can be defined as any interaction between an individual and his or her environment during a task (e.g., to use the soap during handwashing). When an assistive system is designed to recall users what to do during a task, one of its goals is to properly track and detect their actions in order to provide accurate guidance. This paper describes...
Lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) are an ecologically, economically, and culturally important species to the native and non-native fishers of Lake Huron, Canada. Studying the effects of anthropogenic activity on lake whitefish is of utmost importance to ensure this species remains viable in its environment for sustainable harvest. One analysis tool that is frequently used for ecological population...
Engineers and technologists are essential to solving many of the planet's most pressing problems; among them: clean water, sanitation, access to energy, carbon reduction, built infrastructure, disaster relief, transportation, and sustainable agriculture. These issues are headlines in the domain referred to as “humanitarian engineering”. Yet, despite the urgency, the majority of engineers do not spend...
Worldwide, a large majority of organizations developing software are entities having up to 25 people. Since most published software engineering standards had been developed by and for large organizations, most Very Small Entities (VSEs) did not have the expertise to adapt or tailor those software engineering standards to meet their needs. The ISO/IEC 29110 series of standards and guides was specifically...
Technology becomes more and more involved in the learning process (specifically blending learning) of K-12 schools. The broadband requirements must be assessed for cost-effective and efficient (a reasonable download wait time) access to the Internet. With the arrival of videoconferencing, collaborative tools besides, social media, the amount of data incoming and outgoing based on students' activities...
Technologies have advanced to serve humanity and food is one of the primary and basic need of human being. More than 80% of people in Bangladesh depend on agriculture, directly or indirectly. However, proper irrigation by water pump cannot be maintained due to frequent power outages, unavailability of grid lines in remote areas and scarcity/cost of fuel to run pumps. This paper shows the viability...
The purpose of this research is to design a device that is simple, portable, wireless, and can measure blood pressure accurately. The motivation of this study is to develop a device for people suffering from cardiovascular diseases and hypertension. Specifically, a device that is portable, wireless, and can accurately measure blood pressure. Upon determining their blood pressure, individuals can take...
Automatic islanding and reconnection are commonly required at the point of common coupling between microgrids and macrogrids. Islanding systems open the point of common coupling during short circuits, open circuits, and dangerous backfeed conditions in the macrogrid. Automatic synchronizing systems provide reconnection by dispatching multiple distributed energy resources to reduce slip and voltage...
On this paper, a study of state-of-art technologies and techniques for energy harvesting from piezoelectric materials with a focus in bulk power harvesting and production is performed. This study includes improvements in mechanical and electrical configurations to be considered in order to design and implement high-performance energy harvesting systems as well as primary performance and costs estimations...
Intellectually disabled students have difficulty in tasks that require attention, memorization and comprehension of concepts. Assistive technologies in education, e.g. games, allow the creation of new effective alternatives for helping the learning. The main objective of this work is to evaluate the potential of an educational memory game as an assistive technology for students with intellectual disability...
Periodic Limb Movements of Sleep are nocturnal movements that increasingly more research has begun to associate with important cardiovascular outcomes. Polysomnography is the dominant tool currently being used to detect these movements. However, patient inconvenience and high costs associated with polysomnography has probed the need for an alternative screening tool to be developed. In the current...
The overall goal of this paper is to create a wireless body area network (WBAN). A range of different sensors including heart rate using electrocardiography (ECG), temperature, and accelerometer for fall detection were used. Each sensor was connected to a microcontroller with an RF module to transmit the data to a base station. The base station will be used to display sensor data locally. Medical...
The paper addresses computational design as a key technological asset in the development of the post-disaster responses related to temporary housing. In particular, the research targets context-aware adaptation to usage requirements at the camp fragment level. Indeed, nowadays, cities are key resources to answer growing humanitarian needs in terms of sheltering and camps. These situations are increasing...
Providing seamless wireless coverage is essential for maintaining reliable communications in cellular networks. However, in extraordinary circumstances such as catastrophes, cellular infrastructure could be severely damaged; therefore, coverage is lost. For this reason, device-to-device (D2D) communication emerged as a promising technology to maintain wireless connectivity especially for search and...
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