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Driving with distraction or losing alertness increases the risk of the traffic accident. The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) systems for smart driving hold the promise of significantly reducing road accidents. In particular, detecting the unsafe hand motions and warning the driver using smart sensors can improve the driver's self-alertness and the driving skill. However, due to the impact of the...
Smartphone theft is a non-negligible problem that causes serious concerns on personal property, privacy, and public security. The existing solutions to this problem either provide only functions like retrieving a phone, or require dedicated hardware to detect thefts. How to protect smartphones from being stolen at all times is still an open problem. In this paper, we propose iGuard, a real-time anti-theft...
The tracking of the activities of daily living (ADL) may have significant implications in healthcare because it would enable healthcare professionals to receive updates remotely regarding the functional status of post-injury and post-surgery patients, and people with disabilities and the elderly. If successful, technologies that enable ADL tracking could dramatically reduce the healthcare cost because...
As sensor-rich mobile devices became a commodity, more opportunities appeared for the creation of location-aware services. While GPS is a well established solution for outdoor localization, there is still no standard solution for localization indoors. This paper presents a novel accurate indoor positioning mechanism that is meant to run in common smartphones to be a readily and widely available solution...
Leakage of user location and traffic patterns is a serious security threat with significant implications on privacy as reported by recent surveys and identified by the US Congress Location Privacy Protection Act of 2014. While mobile phones can restrict the explicit access to location information to applications authorized by the user, they are ill-equipped to protect against side-channel attacks...
Designing gesture-based collaborative and interactive systems using new technologies has shown noticeable potential for educational purposes and could enhance the memorability of digital contents. In this paper, we present a quality framework and a new combination of modalities to recognise different types of human gestures. The outcome can be used in future classroom designs by replacing expensive...
The ability to locate wireless devices has many benefits as already mentioned by researchers. These applications include sport tracking, friend finders, security related jobs, surveillance etc. Performance of such security related services and surveillance would significantly improve if in addition to location, context of the user is also known. Thus in this paper, location based service is designed...
Mobile devices such as smartphones have a number of sensors that can be exploited to solve a number of problems related to health care delivery. In this paper we use accelerometer, gyroscope, and compass sensors on smart-phones to solve a location tracking problem common to many emergency departments. An emergency department typically has unique characteristics including not being friendly to be visually...
This paper proposes an open architecture for animal tracking systems using an easy-to-access Arduino board equipped with various sensors built into a compact prototype, easily attached to an animal collar. With GPS and public Google Map API functionalities, global location and sensor information are sent over SMS-GSM networks to an Android OS phone embedded with a simplified RF technology used to...
In rural areas, residents often venture far distances to collect water for everyday use. A low-power wireless system records motion and leverages Bluetooth-enabled smartphones, retrieving data from sensors attached to household water containers, to help researchers understand the effects of water policies and water-source locations.
Games are not just fun, they can also be used to generate serious benefits for people. The current popularity of smartphones endowed with sensorial, computational and communication capabilities is generating new potential. An interesting case study regards serious games for healthcare purposes and, to this aim, we focus on physiatric rehabilitation of articulations and show how to create a smartphone's...
As technology fast progressed, information equipment operating interfaces have changed. Traditional instruction operation has evolved into intuitive operation, providing users a convenient operation experience without the need of learning in advance. At present, several kinds of intuitive user interface systems have been developed in smart phones, such as picture vertical/horizontal automatic sensing...
Smart phones are becoming visual computing powerhouses. Using sensors such as camera, GPS, and others, the device can provide a new user interface to the real world, augmenting user's view of the world with additional information and controls. Combining computation with image capture allows new kind of photography that can be more expressive than is possible to obtain with a traditional camera. New...
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