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Showing 1 to 20 of 116 for “"Smart phones"”.
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A binaural sound sources localisation application for smart phones
… deaf people are left out on this ability. Smart phones are rapidly becoming a common tool amongst mobile users in developed and emerging markets. Their processing ability has more than doubled since their introduction to mass consumer markets by Apple in 2007. Top-end smart phones such as …
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Modelling grey-level intensities for smart phones to view medical images
… modelling of grey level intensities for mobile phones in order to view medical images in greyscale using different mobile phones. While medical image format of DICOM employs a Greyscale Standard Display Function (GSDF) that describes the relationship between luminance level and display intensity …
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Resource Allocation for Smart Phones in 4G LTE-Advanced Carrier Aggregation
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the concept of resource scheduling and pricing and its relation to carrier aggregation. The first main topic is a modified Frank Kelly algorithm that allows for the use of utility functions that are piecewise concave, but not a member of a strictly …
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Determining suitable monetization approaches for mobile phone applications within the smart phones industry
Smart Phone Ecosystems revolve around developers, applications and users. One of Nokia's own platforms, the S40, targets the low end of the smart phone market. Nokia's Content & Ecosystem Sourcing group is constantly looking for ways to help its developers of the S40 platform create more successful …
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Foodservice employees behaviors and the presence of foodborne-illness responsible microorganisms on smart phones
<p>As technology advances, smart phone (SP) use is on the rise, including in foodservice establishments. Likewise, the incidence of foodborne-illness in the United States remains high. The presence of disease-responsible microorganisms on health care employees’ mobile phones is well-documented, but …
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Why can't smart phones be polite, too? : what would a phone need to know?
… technologies and are considered "smart". However, we and others around us are often interrupted or embarrassed by these smart devices because the calls and messages received by the devices are not always presented to us at the right moment with the appropriate modality. Our work …
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Mao with Smart Phones and Internet? A Comparison of Classic Guerrilla Warfare with Fourth and Fifth Generation Warfare Using an Agent-Based Model for Simulation
… of advanced information-age technologies: mobile phones and internet spreading propaganda instantly to friendly groups as well as national and trans-national enemies, while unconventional tactics such as suicide bombings and terrorist actions attempt to drain the will of opponents to continue the …
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Morphing content in mobile applications
Smart phones are quickly becoming an integral part of our everyday lives. However, the mobile industry is still young, and the full potential of mobile phones has yet to be tapped. In this thesis, I present the design of a new mobile "super-application" called MobileHelp that aims to push the …
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PyMedServer : a server framework for mobile data collection and machine learning
Over the past decade, the widespread adoption of smart phones has enabled their use as a primary data collection platform for a wide variety of research studies, including areas such as global health field research. In addition, smart phones also provide a portable means of collecting labelled data …
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User experience of 360° video: the development of a conceptual framework
… by the creator, viewers of 360° video, using smart phones and Virtual Reality (VR) Head Mounted Devices (HMD), have the freedom to look around 360° and view the video in any direction as though they were actually at the location where the video was made. 360° video therefore changes the rules …
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Reality hedging : social system approach for understanding economic and financial dynamics
… lives are digitized thanks to social media and smart phones. As we see many areas of research topics using these datasets to establish new behavioral and social theories about our society (e.g.: Reality Mining, Social Network Analysis, etc), it is natural to ask if and how we can use these …
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Secure Access to Outsourced Data from Resource-Constrained Devices
Resource-constrained mobile devices, such as smart phones, wearables, and IoT devices, have produced many exciting and innovative applications by leveraging the extensive data storage and processing abilities of the cloud. Cloud data is expected to be stored in encrypted form to minimise the …
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A multimodal speech interface for dynamic creation and retrieval of geographical landmarks on a mobile device
… geographical landmarks using Android-powered smart-phones. The content associated with each landmark is dynamically integrated into the system's vocabulary, which allows users to easily use speech to access landmarks by the information related to them. The initial results of releasing the …
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A Combined WiMAX/DSRC Approach to Vehicular Networking
… access at cafes to the expanding popularity of smart phones, ubiquitous Internet access has generated much public demand and research. Supplying broadband Internet access for in-vehicle applications is a research area still in its infancy. This thesis examines the strengths and weaknesses of …
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Chorus : end user programming of social applications
… for modern cloud-based applications on smart phones. Chorus innovates in two dimensions: first, by supporting collaboration via "social datatypes" that define a shared structured document; second, by providing a simple user interfaces on smartphones that support interacting with and …
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Sofia.Micro: An Android-Based Pedagogical Microworld Framework
… years now. With the popularity of Android smart phones, creating a pedagogical microworld for Android can help students learn not just Java, OO and event-driven concepts, but also learn to use the Android framework to create concrete, real-world applications. This thesis presents …
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Virtual learning for persons with visual impairment: an exploration of learning platform in a home environment from UTH special school in Lusaka, Zambia.
… which included: availability of computers and smart phone with screen readers and installed WhatsApp, Zoom, Google Meet/ Classroom or Email used to access virtual learning. In addition, radio and television were used by learners. Further, it was revealed that a child with visual impairment …
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Virtual learning for persons with visual impairment: an exploration of learning platform in a home environment from UTH special school in Lusaka, Zambia.
… which included: availability of computers and smart phone with screen readers and installed WhatsApp, Zoom, Google Meet/ Classroom or Email used to access virtual learning. In addition, radio and television were used by learners. Further, it was revealed that a child with visual impairment …
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Wireless Sensor Networking in Challenging Environments
… access points, Bluetooth peripherals, cordless phones, and numerous other devices prevalent in residential environments that share the unlicensed 2.4 GHz ISM band with IEEE 802.15.4 radios.</p><p>To address these real-world challenges, we developed two practical wireless network protocols …
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Using an empirical model of human turning motion to aid heading estimation in a personal navigation system
… of Global Navigation Satellite Systems in smart phones, soldier equipment, and emergency responder navigation systems users have realized the usefulness of low cost Personal Navigation Systems. The state-of-the-art Personal Navigation System is a unit that fuses information based on …
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