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Showing 1 to 20 of 524 for “"Smartphone"”.
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Smartphone Spying: Uncovering Hidden Dangers
The smartphone’s potent dependency, hyper-connectivity and distracting habits are changing the world at a rapid pace by tracking movement locations or extracting private contact data and ultimately impacting personal privacy. Attention-grabbing stimuli, surveillance ability, software applications …
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Assessing intrusiveness of smartphone apps
… the challenge of improving transparency for smartphone apps by focusing on the intrusiveness component of assessing privacy risk. Specifically, we develop a framework for qualitatively assessing and quantitatively measuring the intrusiveness of apps based on their data access behavior. This …
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Smartphone Privacy in Citizen Science
… extremely useful for modern applications such as smartphone-based crowdsensing and citizen science. A prototype named GROUPSENSE was developed to support anonymous-yet-accountable crowdsensing with SRBE in Android devices. From this prototype, an Android crowdsensing application was implemented to …
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Smartphone-based robot control for localisation
This project developed to use smartphone as a robot controller since it’s more powerful and equipped with several sensors that are useful for robots. The project uses Android application as well as Arduino microcontroller to locate and control the robot via DTMF tone from distance. Magnetometer and …
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Smartphone traffic characteristics and context dependencies
Smartphone traffic contributes a considerable amount to Internet traffic. The increasing popularity of smartphones in recent reports suggests that smartphone traffic has been growing 10 times faster than traffic generated from fixed networks. However, little is known about the characteristics of …
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Travel Mode Identification with Smartphone Sensors
… individuals' GPS devices, the emergence of the smartphone provides a promising alternative with its ever-growing computing, networking, and sensing powers. In this thesis, we propose new algorithms for travel mode identification using smartphone sensors. The prototype system is built upon the …
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Bandwidth Aggregation Across Multiple Smartphone Devices
<p>Smartphones now account for the majority of all cell phones in use today [23]. Ubiquitous Internet 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 …
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Information Scraps in the Smartphone Era
… devices at a rate unimagined in the pre-smartphone era. Developers have, in turn, created a varied and growing body of smartphone software that supports many common information scrap use-cases. In this thesis, we describe our research into how and why people have adopted smartphone …
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Security Testing of Web and Smartphone Applications
… few steps onto the world of applications for smartphone, in the attempt of breaking the barriers of our research and bringing the lesson learned from the experience in the domain of web applications towards a new domain. To motivate our work, we noticed that an important reason behind the …
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A smartphone-based energy saving navigation system
This thesis describes a smartphone-based vehicular GPS navigator by using an energy saving lo- cation sensing mode and it reduces navigation energy needs by more than an order of magnitude. The thesis will go over the theory and mode behind it and focus on the implementation details and the survey …
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SMARTPHONE-BASED COMPRESSION-INDUCED IMAGING SYSTEM DATA SECURITY
The Smartphone-based Compression-Induced System (SCIS) is developed to obtain the mechanical properties of a tumor. Using a SCIS smartphone app, we obtain tactile images, and we developed data security methodology in this thesis. The first version of the system (SCIS V1) is developed using the …
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A Unified And Green Platform For Smartphone Sensing
<p>Smartphones have become key communication and entertainment devices in people's daily life. Sensors on (or attached to) smartphones can enable attractive sensing applications in different domains, including environmental monitoring, social networking, healthcare, transportation, etc. Most …
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SenSys: A Smartphone-Based Framework for ITS applications
… set of data. The recent massive spread of smartphones among drivers encouraged the ITS community to use them to solve ITS challenges.</p> <p>Using smartphones in ITS is gaining an increasing interest among researchers and developers. Typically, the set of sensors that comes with smartphones …
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The changing competitive landscape of the smartphone industry
… world. Despite this general industry growth, the smartphone subsector has achieved significantly lower levels of global penetration. As a result, there is a large scope for growth and a significant opportunity for players in the sector to seize in the future. The most widely used and supported …
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Proving presence and locality to mitigate compromised smartphone scenarios
… research delves into the evolving landscape of smartphone security and authentication technologies. While the scope of threats and security measures is applicable to mobile computing in general, the study focuses primarily on mobile banking, a sector particularly vulnerable to evolving threats. …
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A noninvasive, image-based smartphone app for diagnosing anemia
Smartphone-based telehealth is steadily transforming the delivery of medical care worldwide, moving diagnosis of disease from the clinic to the home to potentially anywhere in the globe. Smartphone images alone have recently been used by physicians to remotely diagnose a myriad of diseases. …
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