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Crimes are acts that provide harm to an individual or community. It disrupts peace, produces fear and impedes the usual activities of the many. Sadly, statistics say that there is a significant number of crimes in the Philippines that are not directly reported to the proper authorities. This menace if not provided appropriate actions will continue to exist and provide terror to the community. This...
In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a location-aware mobile-based emergency service for Bangladesh, a developing country, which lacks any central 911-like emergency service. Our goal was to investigate the feasibility and acceptability of such services that do not require building any new infrastructure or changing the existing infrastructure available in Bangladesh. To achieve...
Parking could become a nightmare on a busy day, in a city like Delhi (India), which has about 7.35 million cars, as per MORTH Barclays Research (2012). An average of seventeen minutes and considerable amount of fuel is wasted in an effort to find a parking spot every time. Additional stress is induced due to parking hassles starting from finding an empty parking spot to relocating the car later. We...
Transportation has been long part of people life, especially for the urban. The transportation need not only applied for the local, Jakarta as a capital city must be full of foreigner either for business purpose or others, and they are need a public transportation as well. Commuter Line Jabodetabek is the most preferable public transportation to avoid Jakarta's traffic. The idea is to create a mobile...
As it can be seen in a developed society, the cities grow day to day, it gives the idea that in the future the major part of the people around the world will live in a city. The term digital city was given to know how the cities will be able to receive these people. Hence, it is important to study how new technologies can improve life quality in several aspects, including the tourism. About tourism,...
The world has seen tremendous growth in the field of mobile communication over the last two decades. In Bangladesh, the penetration of cell phones is around eighty percent, ninety-seven percent of households have access to it. Utilization of the information and communication technology can be an effective means to provide customer services for any organization. The purpose of this paper is to present...
Nowadays, smartphones have reached every hand and every home. As a result, people are making use of the beneficial mobile applications to make their everyday life easier. This paper focuses on development of a mobile application(app) to help providing an effective health care system. Using this app people can get numerous benefits like finding hospital information in the city, information about cabin,...
Applications in Smart City context are improving the quality of life of citizens through several technological interactions. These interactions can be also used to relate the citizens' emotions to city's areas. Thus, the main objective of this work is to present a smart phone application that analyzes the citizens' emotions and the relations between these parameters and different city's areas. Daily...
Several mobile guides for unknown destinations provide assistance to tourists (through personalized tour recommendations) in making feasible plans and visiting the most interesting POIs within their available time. However, existing tourist tour planners only regard available attractions as sites lacking physical dimensions (i.e. POIs are treated as points). Although this is adequate for scheduling...
Downloading or buying mobile applications are becoming increasingly popular activities, which would seem likely to affect the daily life of human beings. However, little empirical evidence about the factors, which influence downloading of mobile application is available. This study examines the concepts of attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavior control with reference to the extended theory...
One of the problems affecting fire departments in Latin America is the lack of a strong infrastructure to overcome their communication problems. Because these organizations are mainly volunteer and receive minimal support from government agencies, most existing solutions are not applicable for them. This article presents a low-cost mobile groupware application, which may be used in emergency situations...
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