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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Multiple Devices"”.
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Mental Workload in Personal Information Management: Understanding PIM Practices Across Multiple Devices
Multiple devices such as desktops, laptops, and cell phones are often used to manage users' personal information, such as files, calendars, contacts, emails, and bookmarks. This dissertation presents the results of two studies that examined users' mental workload in this context, especially when …
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Federated Learning for Resource Constrained Devices
As resource constrained edge devices become increasingly more powerful, they are able to provide a larger quantity of higher quality data. However, as these devices are decentralized, it becomes difficult to gain insights from multiple devices at the same time. Federated learning allows us to learn …
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Design and implementation of multiple address parallel transmission architecture for storage area network
… and source addresses of packets, the load of multiple data flows between multiple devices can be balanced in an asymmetrical topology without using special hardware. The SAN performance could be scaled flexibly and additional fault tolerance feature is provided. The load balancing algorithms …
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Detection, identification and localization of R/C electronic devices through their unintended emissions
… identification, and localization methods for multiple RC electronic devices in a realistic environment. First, a Hurst parameter based detection method for super-regenerative receivers (SRR) has been used for detection. Hurst parameter based detection method exploits a self-similarity property …
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Subiquitous: Supporting Ubiquitous Computing
… of Subiquitous applications to different devices along the Model-View-Controller separation, b) running of the same application in multiple devices supporting easy communication between devices, c) a resource-server with multiple clients all sharing data from a single location, and d) an …
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Hardware and software architecture for non-contact, non-intrusive load monitoring
… a single power line that supplies electricity to multiple devices. Signal processing algorithms are then used to separate the summed power usage into the individual power usage of each device. This thesis presents three new developments: a hardware architecture that measures the electromagnetic …
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GraphPipe: Improving the Performance and Scalability of DNN Training with Graph Pipeline Parallelism
… techniques. They split a DNN into multiple stages, construct a pipeline of them, and assign to each stage a distinct device. Multiple devices, each storing a partial segment of the DNN, perform their respective operations in sequence to train the whole. Applying pipeline-parallel …
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Collaborative internet and voice data transfer using bluetooth mesh networking
… protocol, AirRAID, intended for wireless devices that, using the collective power of multiple devices within short-range communication sight, extends the availability of a secondary medium over an ad-hoc mesh network, resilient to the erratic movements of the mobile nodes from which it is …
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Augmented reality persistent annotation
… geometry. Annotations are persistent across multiple sessions and devices. Annotations can also be color-coded and filtered. Our interface has annotation indicators and a radar map to help users quickly locate annotations. Multiple devices can work under a synchronized network to facilitate …
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Enabling Collaborative Visual Analysis across Heterogeneous Devices
… emerging at an unprecedented pace. These devices are heterogeneous in nature: in large and small sizes with many input and sensing mechanisms. When many such devices are used by multiple users with a shared goal, they form a heterogeneous device ecosystem. A device ecosystem has great …
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Scalable spatially aware media sharing display system
… promotes interfacing flexibility thus allowing multiple devices, extant or yet to be, to connect and fully exploit its capabilities. In addition, the system supports an architecture that can accommodate loosely coupled parallel tasks thus exhibiting the qualities of a dynamic parallel cluster.
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The case for reconfigurable general purpose GPU computing
… makes them ideal for accelerating tasks on multiple devices. However, despite the massively parallel architecture, GPUs are limited by the applications that run on them. The generic architecture of a GPU allows it to accelerate a large variety of applications, but none of these applications …
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Getting comfortable in the zone with S3DComfortZone
… the virtual comfort zones of stereoscopic 3D devices. This tool addresses the need for visualization information of unique comfort zones across multiple stereoscopic 3D devices. The comfort zone is defined as a volume of space in which virtual objects would be perceived comfortable by the …
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Self-supervised learning for data-efficient human activity recognition
Over the last decade, smart mobile devices have become ubiquitous, bringing about significant lifestyle changes worldwide. Mobile sensing, which involves obtaining and analysing data from mobile devices and the environment, has emerged as an active research area. It captures the unique opportunity …
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Piezoelectric energy harvesting: vortex induced vibrations in plants, soap films, and arrays of cylinders
… utilizes the collective oscillating motion of multiple piezoelectric devices. These devices would be an alternative to rotating turbine designs for low power generation, for use in applications such as remote power generation. A series of inexpensive devices were developed that harvested energy …
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Safe medical device interaction rules
The advent of computerized medical devices has resulted in better accuracy and increased safety for patients and clinicians, yet medical accidents are still not uncommon. With the computerized medical devices and their technical complexity, any given clinical environment is a composition of complex …
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One hundred channel electrophoresis prototypes for application to an ultra-high throughput mutational spectrometer
… CDCE. In order for this stage to be successful, multiple subsystems of the device must work in unison, including thermal control, optical detection, electrical and fluidic connectivity. In this thesis, multiple devices were created to work in conjunction with previously existing instruments, …
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Media Multitasking and Executive Functioning in Young Adults
… multitasking within a single device or between multiple devices. Lastly, the final empirical study explored the proximal effects of media multitasking on executive functioning in young adults, for which none were found. In addition to the main aim, a concern of the thesis was to explore the …
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Bandwidth Aggregation Across Multiple Smartphone Devices
… access is a valuable feature offered by these devices and the vast majority of smartphone applications make use of the Internet in one way or another. However, the bandwidth offered by these cellular networks is often much lower than we typically experience on our standard home networks, …
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Orientation-indepedent wireless charging of multiple mobile devices at a distance
… consumers carry an increasing number of mobile devices on their person: mobile phones, tablets, smartwatches, etc. As a result, users must remember to recharge each device, every day. Wireless charging promises to free users from this burden, allowing devices to remain permanently unplugged. …
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