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Mobile applications (apps) are software developed for use on mobile devices and made available through app stores. App stores are highly competitive markets where developers need to cater to a large number of users spanning multiple countries. This work hypothesizes that there exist country differences in mobile app user behavior and conducts one of the largest surveys to date of app users across...
Mobile comic is now evolving into an industry with great potential for its convenience, huge user base etc. A key challenge in mobile comic is to adapt the comic content to various mobile screens for better visual effect, which is also called image retargeting. Although a lot of works have been conducted in this area, most of them target on nature or natural-like images. However, cartoon images are...
Plagiarism and cheating are critical issues that jeopardize quality assurance in higher education. When it comes to e-learning and m-learning, fair use of information becomes even more crucial. This case study is an attempt to imprint academics' knowledge, beliefs and strategies regarding plagiarism and cheating. It was found that most of academics were well informed but they did not spend time in...
The aim of this paper is to present a game based application constructed for the School of Law at the University of Westminster, London. The application is to be used for teaching purposes and is based on a hypothetical scenario. The paper discusses the challenges of designing game based applications for teaching Law and proposes some design solutions. The ‘Articulate Storyline’ e-learning authoring...
Information visualization is a very important tool in BigData analytics. BigData, structured and unstructured data which contains images, videos, texts, audio and other forms of data, collected from multiple datasets, is too big, too complex and moves too fast to analyse using traditional methods. This has given rise to two issues; 1) how to reduce multidimensional data without the loss of any data...
This university has published the “MMDAgent” voice interaction system toolkit as opensource software. MMDAgent enables users to develop voice interaction system easily by editing the voice interaction scenario based on Finite State Transducer (FST) format. However, having numerous people edit it simultaneously is difficult. For that reason, tremendous labor costs are necessary to describe an abundant...
This paper shows a prototype software to ask and answer question in an interactive learning environment. The set of software is composed by an interactive web editor based on IMS-QTI specifications, an interactions player, and a web repository. The interactive web editor and the interaction player were designed to be used in smartphones, tablet or laptop. To build questions, the AquRate authoring...
Location-Based Service (LBS) has become more and more important with the rapid development of mobile internet, it as an information service mainly make use of geographic position of mobile phone to provide accurate services for consumers. LBS involves a mass of longitude-latitude data and mainly involves three problems: Point Query, Range Query, and K-Nearest Neighbors. The object of this paper is...
This paper presents SMoCoR, a smart mobile contact recommender based on smart phone data. It recommends the most appropriate way to contact friends according to friends' current condition. In no emergency condition, SMoCoR achieves two goals. First, the recommended contacts disturb friends least, that means, it will tell whether it's suitable to call friends. Second, the recommended contact makes...
The IEEE Engineering Mobile Service Oriented Systems (EMSOS) Workshop aims to bring together researchers from academia and industry, as well as practitioners in the area of engineering services in mobile environments in order to provide a forum where recent research results can be presented and discussed. The objective is to understand open issues in the software engineering area of services applied...
Service-dominant (S-D) supply chains contain multiple independent companies, each of which is responsible for one part of the entire service and sets the price of its service according to its own objective. This paper studies a two-echelon S-D chain and compares the performance of different pricing processes — sequential price-setting (Stackelberg equilibrium) and simultaneous price-setting processes...
This paper presents the development and design of TabletTours application, high-school students' extracurricular project activity. TabletTours application is designed and implemented as a virtual tablet-based travel guide. The additional purposes of this paper are to examine the manner in which students use new technologies (tablet PC, smartphone) and to showcase an example of a successful implementation...
Recently, the travel guides have become an important tool to support tourists around the world. The tourists will search the tourist attraction and travel information from the book, brochure or website. In this paper, the searching application for Southern Thailand Travel Guide on iPhone is proposed. The proposed application is developed to search for travel guide information on different provinces...
Taiwan is going to start 12-year compulsory education in 2014, so education strategies once again become an important issue for research and discussion. The current study used the web-based cooperative learning with Windows Live as a teaching strategy to teach Mathematics course in a junior high school in Taiwan. The subjects, 3 classes of first-year students, were divided into experimental group...
Aimed at the amount of aggregation graphs produced by the dimension which the user is interesting on the multidimensional moving object network. By introducing the idea of graph index, we put forward of the structure data query algorithm MCPath to solve the problem of querying the interesting structure data on specific dimension. MCPath algorithm decomposes the query structure to the shortest paths,...
This study aims to examine forensic evidence through forensic analysis of backup data in synchronized smartphones. In a laboratory environment for the experiment, an assumption is made that personal financial transaction information is sent to a smartphone, which is in turn damaged. For the backup data of the smartphone, a forensic tool is used to analyze the personal financial transaction information...
Audience response systems (ARS) or “clickers” are becoming more and more popular tools for managing audience response or voting feedback for certain questions. Currently, they are more commonly used in education, mostly to engage students during lectures in large classrooms and give the lecturer prompt anonymous response from the audience. The article presents a concept of using a clickers software,...
In the past few years, the number of smartphone apps has grown at a tremendous rate. To compete in this market, both independent developers and large companies seek to improve the ratings of their apps. Therefore, understanding the user's perspective of mobile apps is extremely important. In this paper, we study the user's perspective of iOS apps by qualitatively analyzing app reviews. In total, we...
Mobile applications are being implemented in varieties of areas including mobile commerce, purchase of services and products using mobile devices, gaming, banking, information services etc. Obafemi Awolowo University is a large academic community that can benefit from a mobile information service centre. There is a large population of students who can satisfy a great deal of their information needs...
In today's world of increasing scarcity of resources and economic stagnation, we still see rapid developments in computer science and user experience towards increasingly mobile, intelligent and context-aware computing systems. These innovations represent a new frontier for transformative innovation on a societal level. They hold the promise of breakthroughs in how people can collaborate through dynamically...
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