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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Mobile Phone Application"”.
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The use of mobile phone technology in the collection of user perceptions of walkability along pedestrian routes from public transport in Cape Town and New Delhi
… 1. The development and testing of an Android mobile phone application, along with its associated online dashboard. The mobile phone application allows for the collection of data on the pedestrian experience and is a shift away from the mechanistic approach to understanding pedestrian …
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OnTheRun : a location-based exercise game
… to be physically inactive. This project is a mobile phone application that transforms a run into an immersive game by presenting a series of story-based running tasks to motivate the player. Requiring that the game be played while running constrains the design both in terms of input and …
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Merry Miser
… and evaluation of Merry Miser, a persuasive mobile phone application intended to help people to spend less and save more. The application uses the context provided by users' location (obtained using the phone's GPS) and financial histories to provide personalized interventions when the user …
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A data analysis system for mobile phone
This thesis shows the experiment of using the mobile phone application Social Health Tracker to collect participants' mobile phone data and survey answers regarding their social, physical activity and mental concentration level. It also shows the design and the implementation of a Data Analysis …
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SHOP-Net: Moving from Paper to Mobile
… To address these inefficiencies, a mobile-based stock-ordering system was designed with TTO. This system allows orders to be recorded and sent to a server at the TTO office using a mobile phone application where the orders are then processed. This system successfully increased TTO's …
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User Behaviours and Spatial Aspects of Navigating Heritage Tourism Sites with a Digital Interpretive Application
… how visitors engage with a locative media mobile phone application (GuideTags) in digital interpretive experiences in historic downtown Niagara Falls, Ontario. This research specifically explores the behaviour of visitors using a digital interpretive app at a heritage site who were offered …
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Trust, Transparency, and Transport: The Impact of Privacy Protection on the Acceptance of Last-Mile Drone Delivery
… vehicles. This thesis explores the effect of a mobile phone application for commercial delivery drones on bystander privacy perception of drone delivery systems. Further, it presents a method for determining what privacy measures should be implemented to engender trust in unmanned delivery …
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Can health workers capture data using a generic mobile phone with sufficient accuracy for Capture at Source to be used for clinical research purposes?
… in data entry, could capture data on a feature phone during an interview using two different mobile phone applications, compared to the accuracy with which they could record data on paper Case Report Forms (CRFs). Design: A comparative study was performed where 10 participating CRWs performed 90 …
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Automated Low-Cost Malaria Detection System in Thin Blood Slide Images Using Mobile Phones
… processing, that can be incorporated onto mobile phones. In this research study, the main objective is to achieve the performance equal to or better than the manual microscopy, which is the gold standard in malaria diagnosis, in order to produce a reliable automated diagnostic platform …
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Enabling visually impaired people to use touch screen phones
Most mobile applications are not designed for visually impaired people. The concept of universal design is not adopted by most application developers. Therefore, interaction between a visually impaired user and the mobile application becomes cumbersome. Assistive technologies such as screen readers …
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WellBee : mobile therapy for stress-related eating
… that many people need help dealing with. As mobile phones have become increasingly popular, a mobile phone application seems like a potential solution and there have already been several studies involving mobile interventions for eating and stress management. This thesis takes such systems …
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To and fro : digital data-driven analyses of pedestrian mobility in urban spaces
… activity records collected from the users of a mobile phone application in Greater Boston, Massachusetts and the San Francisco Bay Area, California. The dataset contains the locative traces of recreational and utilitarian pedestrian walking activities which include the GPS and temporal records …
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The implementation and evaluation of a mhealth intervention to address secondary traumatic stress among frontline mental health care providers in South Africa
… and have limited accessibility. in contrast, mobile health (mhealth) interventions offer an alternative means of mental health care. this study implemented and evaluated the effectiveness of an international smartphone application (i.e., covid coach) that was designed to support health care …
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A model personal energy meter
… meter on a global scale is demonstrated using a mobile phone application to aggregate energy feeds based on the case studies and technologies developed.
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Design and Development of an Autoinjector Tracking Device to Integrate with Emergency Service
… GuardAin, was developed and linked to an Android mobile phone application. A pilot case-based study aimed at validating the accuracy of the notification alert algorithm in threedimensional directions was conducted at the Impulse Biomedical offices in the Western Cape. The test conditions were …
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Influence of real-time information provided by a mobile phone on the management of rural water supply quality
… of information flow is based on introducing a mobile phone application. The hypothesis is that through improving the information flow, decisions on water supply management will be improved. Case study research was conducted in rural municipalities situated in the Northern Cape Province and …
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Electroencephalographic and Cognitive Underpinnings of Inhibitory Control in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: From Actions to Thoughts
… practising a finger tapping sequence on a smartphone application (app) can have clinical benefits as a 'habit-reversal' treatment; and (vii) Metacognitive functions such as memory confidence and vividness are impaired in OCD, prompting the need to repeat actions. The thesis is structured in …
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An investigation of the potential and the limitations of small-scale biogas in urban Africa
… for future investigation. Also, in this phase, a mobile phone application, called the “Biogas Monitoring Tool” was developed and refined, accompanied by a monitoring methodology to collect information on measured variables which were considered to inform productivity and stability of small-scale …