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Showing 1 to 20 of 688 for “"Mobile devices"”.
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File Tracking For Mobile Devices
… of people’s daily lives. The popularity of smart devices has increased dramatically. However, as the number of devices owned by an individual user increases, so does the risk of data leakage and loss. This problem has started to draw attention because the data contained on smart devices tends to …
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Eyes-Free Input on Mobile Devices
… aim to improve eyes-free data entry for blind mobile device users. Currently, mobile devices are generally accessible to blind people, but text entry is almost prohibitively slow. Studies show that blind people enter text on an iPhone at a rate of just 4 words per minute. I describe Perkinput, …
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Lightweight cryptographic protocols for mobile devices
… years, a wide range of resource-constrained devices have been built and integrated into many networked systems. These devices collect and transfer data over the Internet in order for users to access the data or to control these devices remotely. However, the data also may contain sensitive …
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Continuous authentication on android mobile devices
… passwords and PINs, secure access to an Android mobile device only at login, leaving active sessions vulnerable to unauthorised access. With over 3.9 billion Android mobile users worldwide and the widespread use of ultra-short messages in applications like WhatsApp, Telegram, and email, this …
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Enhancing Mobile Devices through Code Offload
<p>Advances in mobile hardware and operating systems have made mobile a first-class development platform. Activities such as web browsing, casual game play, media playback, and document reading are now as common on mobile devices as on full-sized desktop systems. However, developers are still …
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Enhanced Password Security on Mobile Devices
<p>Sleek and powerful touchscreen devices with continuous access to high-bandwidth wireless data networks have transformed mobile into a first-class development platform. Many applications (i.e., "apps") written for these platforms rely on remote services such as Dropbox, Facebook, and Twitter, and …
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Efficient Ray Tracing For Mobile Devices
<p>The demand for mobile devices with higher graphics performance has increased substantially in the past few years. Most mobile applications that demand 3D graphics use commonly available frameworks, such as Unity and Unreal Engine. In mobile devices, these frameworks are built on top of OpenGL ES …
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An XML Messaging Service for Mobile Devices
… in the number and capabilities of various mobile devices. These devices are connected through various wireless technologies to larger networks, and a goal of current research is to integrate them seamlessly into these networks. These two developments seem to be at odds with each other. XML …
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Embedded Eye-Gaze Tracking On Mobile Devices
… Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Traditionally, devices which are able to determine a user's gaze are large, expensive and often restrictive. This work investigates the prospect of using common mobile devices such as tablets and phones as an alternative means for obtaining a user's gaze. Mobile …
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Modeling User Transportation Patterns Using Mobile Devices
… frameworks use humans and their computing devices as a large mobile sensing network. Dramatic accessibility and affordability have turned mobile devices (smartphone and tablet computers) into the most popular computational machines in the world, exceeding laptops. By the end of 2013, more …
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Co-present photo sharing on mobile devices
… collectively. This dissertation describes a mobile application that attempts to support traditional photo sharing activities by allowing users to share photos with other co-present users by synchronizing the display on multiple mobile devices. Various floor control policies (software locks …
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Quantifying Parkinson's Disease Symptoms Using Mobile Devices
… and effectiveness of treatment and therapies. Mobile devices present an opportunity to continuously monitor Parkinson’s Disease patients and collect important information regarding the severity of symptoms. The evolution of digital technology has opened doors for clinical research to extend …
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Hardware and software fingerprinting of mobile devices
… identify the software and hardware components on mobile devices. In particular, we make significant contributions in two challenging areas: library fingerprinting, to identify third-party software libraries, and device fingerprinting, to identify individual hardware components. Our work has …
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Asbestos : operating system security for mobile devices
… The port to the ARM allows Asbestos to run on mobile devices such as cell phones and personal digital assistants. These mobile, wireless-enabled devices are at risk for data attacks because they store private data but often roam in public networks. The Asbestos operating system is designed to …
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Reducing 3G energy consumption on mobile devices
… is a significant contributor to battery drain on mobile devices. This paper describes the design, implementation, and experimental evaluation of methods to reduce the energy consumption of the 3G radio interface. The idea is to put the radio in its "Low-power idle" state when no application is …
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ADAPTIVE POWER MANAGEMENT FOR COMPUTERS AND MOBILE DEVICES
… and also reduces the battery life in portable devices. Modern computing/communication devices support multiple power modes which enable power and performance tradeoff. Dynamic power management (DPM), dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS), and dynamic task migration for workload …
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Indoor mapping using audio reflections from mobile devices
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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Strong metadata privacy for mobile devices and applications
Smartphones have become the primary computing devices for many. Living inconspicuously in our pockets, they store our most intimate personal messages and pictures as well as sensitive corporate information and government secrets. This has already motivated widespread adoption of end-to-end …
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