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This paper presents the use of Near Field Communication and mobile technologies for the development of ubiquitous games. We describe all the components necessary for the building of ubiquitous games: the MIDlet or program running on the mobile phone with NFC features, the services available in the back-end system in charge of the game control and the tool devoted to real-time surveillance and visualization...
Health care systems will integrate new computing paradigms in the coming years. Context awareness computing is a research field which often refers to health care as an interesting and rich area of application. One of the areas for context aware computing is social awareness amongst a group of individuals. Providing individuals with social awareness about other coworkers is very important in order...
Traffic security is one of the most important problems to be improved for our daily environment, especially in Japan. Surveillance systems are effectively used to observe intrusion into dangerous and security area. They are well evaluated to monitor whether people enter such an area or not. A remote surveillance system has been developed, which supports users of mobile phones to facilitate network...
Mobile consumer devices take increasingly important roles, more closely and personally interacting with users. As users get used to mobile devices, they often want the same level of computing experience as they can have from desktop PCs, but still in small and light form factors. Considering current technology, we find the limitations of the processor and the memory are still too big in current mobile...
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