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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"Context Awareness"”.
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Context awareness for wearable computers
… with particular reference to the use of context sensing. It is argued that such technologies are useful to enhance user proficiency in everyday tasks. A wearable, context–aware computer system and a set of evaluation tasks are devised to investigate this premise. A photograph diary study …
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Environmental audio-visual context awareness
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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Resolution in Internet Identifiers: Towards Context-Awareness and Customisation
… refer to the same digital objects in multiple contexts. This is only achievable if names are allocated from a unified namespace and the resolution of the name into network addresses is consistent and coherent. Market competition dynamics for digital presence naturally encourage us to be bound …
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Enabling Context-Awareness in Mobile Systems via Multi-Modal Sensing
… high-resolution view of the user's context, ranging from simple information like locations and activities, to high-level inferences about the users' intention, behavior, and social interactions. Understanding such context can help solving existing system-side</p><p>challenges and …
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Context Awareness in the Internet of Things and its Applications
In the last decade the role of context awareness, traditionally focused on human to machine interaction, has broadened its perspectives to the machine to machine paradigma. The main goal of this dissertation is both to understand how to apply context awareness to situations , perceived by smart …
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Context-Awareness for Adversarial and Defensive Machine Learning Methods in Cybersecurity
… and produces great results when combined with contextual properties. In the world of the Internet of Things, the extraction of information regarding context, or contextual information, is increasingly prominent with scientific advances. Combining such advancements with artificial intelligence …
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Supporting Focus and Context Awareness in 3D Modeling Using Multi-Layered Displays
… resulted in identifying a range of focus and context awareness problems that modelers face in creating complex 3D models using conventional modeling software. These problems can be divided into four categories: maintaining position awareness, identifying and selecting objects or components of …
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Cloud computing and context-awareness: A study of the adapted user experience
… quality of service, content and products we use. Context-aware systems use such information about end-users as input mechanisms for producing applications based on mobile, location, social, cloud and customized content services. This represents new possibilities for extracting aggregated …
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A sensor toolkit to facilitate context-awareness for just-in-time questioning
… questioning whereby researchers ask a person context-sensitive questions concerning their current activities or well being at appropriate times. Automatic JIT questioning is now possible, and it involves mobile or in-home computing devices that use sensors to determine when to ask real-time …
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Towards low-cost context awareness on smart shelving using passive UHF RFID infrastructure
… focuses on the construction of a low-cost context awareness infrastructure for smart shelving using passive UHF RFID tags and radio tomographic imaging (RTI) algorithms. Firstly, location estimations without fingerprinting in one direction can reach an accuracy of 91.7% on four tested …
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Data-Driven Routing for Autonomous Trucks: Learning from Human Behavior with Context Awareness and Privacy Protection
… extreme weather, and (iii) privacy-preserving, context-aware route planning informed by human driving behavior. The first objective introduces the Multi-Intention Deep Inverse Reinforcement Learning (MIDIRL) framework for reconstructing truck trajectories from low-frequency GPS data. MIDIRL …
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Interface strategy pattern for context-aware service based environment
… research work focuses on the development of the Context-Aware Component Interfacing Pattern, CACIP, aimed at contributing to current developments in distributed communication and collaboration in mobile wireless environment. CACIP derives from the component bus and the component glue patterns as …
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A Context-Aware Dynamic Spectrum Access System for Spectrum Research and Development
… spectrum access system that incorporates context awareness and multi-band operational support and serves as an RandD tool for the research community. We have developed a novel Prioritization Framework that takes the current operational context of each user into account to determine their …
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User-centred and context-aware identity management in mobile ad-hoc networks
… In this thesis, we review some issues of contextual computing, its implications and usage within pervasive environments. To tackle the above problems, it is essential to allow users to have control over their own identities in MANet environments. So far, the development of such identity …
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A Biofeedback-Based Physical Activity Advisory System
… inactivity such as the busy lifestyle, lack of awareness regarding required physical activity levels and other environmental factors. Physical activity advisory systems can be seen as a promising solution for the inactivity problem. In order to enhance their effectiveness, these systems must …
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Pursuing fit: a grounded theory of e-recruitment in Namibia – an integrated jobseeker and agency perspective
… to overcome challenges in their recruitment context. In order to meet the purpose of the study, Classic Grounded Theory Methodology (classic-GTM) was used. Through the application of classic-GTM it emerged that jobseekers' and recruitment agencies' perspectives on e-recruitment are varied and …
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A Software Framework for Augmentative and Alternative Communication
<p>By combining context awareness and analytical based relevance computing software, the proposed Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) framework aims provide a foundation to create communication systems to dramatically increase the words available to AAC users. The framework will allow …
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Ambient Intelligence with Wireless Grid Enabled Applications: A Case Study of the Launch and First Use Experience of WeJay Social Radio in Education
… the constructs of innovation, creativity and context awareness while offering emergence theory -- emergent properties, structures, patterns and behaviors -- to frame and investigate a wireless grid enabled social radio application which was theorized to be potentially transformative and …
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Multi-Dimensional Evaluation Metrics for Chest X-Ray Reports
… metric for the readability dimension by adding context awareness of frequent and acceptable medical terminology.
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