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Showing 1 to 20 of 509 for “"Smartphones"”.
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A Multimodal Biometric Authentication for Smartphones
… to ageing password based authentication on smartphones. Fingerprint biometric is leading the biometric technology for smartphones, however, owing to its high cost, major players in mobile industry are introducing fingerprint sensors only on their flagship devices, leaving most of their other …
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Making Coding Practical: From Servers to Smartphones
The fundamental insight of use of coding in computer networks is that information to be transmitted from the source in a session can be inferred, or decoded, by the intended receivers, and does not have to be transmitted verbatim. Several coding techniques have gained popularity over the recent …
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Rapid application mobilization and delivery for smartphones
Smartphones form an emerging mobile computing platform that has hybrid characteristics borrowed from PC and feature phone environments. While maintaining great mobility and portability as feature phones, smartphones offers advanced computation capabilities and network connectivity. Although the …
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Performance evaluation of deep learning on smartphones
Deep Learning powers a variety of applications from self driving cars and autonomous robotics to web search and voice assistants. It is fair to say that it is omnipresent and here to stay. It is deployed in all sorts of devices ranging from consumer electronics to Internet of Things (IoT). Such a …
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A Pervasive Middleware for Activity Recognition with Smartphones
Activity Recognition (AR) is an important research topic in pervasive computing. With the rapid increase in the use of pervasive devices, huge sensor data is generated from diverse devices on a daily basis. Analysis of the sensor data is a significant area of research for AR. There are several …
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Diagnosing and debugging abnormal battery drain on smartphones
… evolutionary change in the smartphone ecosystem. Smartphones have gone from closed platforms containing only pre-installed applications to open platforms hosting a variety of third-party applications. Unfortunately, this change has also led to a rapid increase in Abnormal Battery Drain (ABD) …
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Leveraging smartphones to incentivize city-wide, energy ecient transportation
Transportation is a major source of energy consumption in developed countries [4]. Unfortunately, people have little incentive to change their habits, relying on inefficient transportation sources. The "Sustainable Travel Incentives with Prediction, Optimization and Personalization" (Tripod) …
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SocialCircuits : a platform for measuring social interaction using smartphones
SocialCircuits is a platform capable of measuring the face-to-face and phone-based communication network of a real-world community. This platform uses commodity mobile phones to measure social ties between individuals, and uses long- and short-term surveys to measure the shifts in individual …
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Computer Vision with Machine Learning on Smartphones for Beauty Applications.
… this leads to issues when using them on smartphones, as these are generally constrained by their computing power and battery capacity-limited energy consumption. While it is sometimes possible to conduct such resource-heavy tasks on a powerful remote server receiving the smartphone user’s …
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Location estimation and collective inference in indoor spaces using smartphones
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-04-06 without embargo terms
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Use of smartphones by romantic partners to maintain their relationships
… technology as well as on the problematic use of smartphones. Little research has been done on the effect of smartphones on romantic relationship maintenance. THE PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH: The objective of this research was to find out how individuals in romantic relationships were using their …
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Indoor navigation for passengers in underground transit stations using smartphones
People are increasingly relying on smartphones to solve a lot of their daily problems, among which navigation is one of the most fundamental tasks. Estimating the locations of pedestrians and tracking them in an indoor environment is a long sought after research goal. This thesis develops a …
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Investigating student perceptions on effective use of smartphones for mobile learning
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of MICT, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2019.
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Modelling of colour appearance of textured colours and smartphones using CIECAM02
… the variations of colours for a number of smartphones while making an effort to predict their colour appearance using CIECAM02, benefiting both telephone users and makers. This thesis studies the Apple iPhone 5, LG Nexus 4, Samsung, and Huawei models, and compares their performance with a …
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Behaviour based anomaly detection system for smartphones using machine learning algorithm
… behaviour-based anomaly detection system for smartphones. The fundamental premise of this system is that every smartphone user has unique usage patterns. By modelling these patterns into a profile we can uniquely identify users. To evaluate this hypothesis, we conducted an experiment in which …
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Understanding acceptance decisions and identity associated with smartphones: A qualitative enquiry
… research project investigated how users accept smartphones and construct self and social identities around their devices. Working from the social constructionist paradigm and employing the perspective of symbolic interactionism to understand the acceptance decisions and choice, this research …
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BotSpine - A Generic Simple Development Platform of Smartphones and Sensors or Robotics
… trend of IoT, smart sensors are in great demand. Smartphones stand out from other computing terminals as a result of their incomparable popularity, mobility and computer comparable computing capability. However, current IoT designs are developed among diverse platforms and systems and are usually …
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GEN Z’S PERCEPTIONS AND USE PATTERNS OF SMARTPHONES IN NATURE-BASED RECREATION
… their relationship to technology, specifically smartphones. Gen Z is defined as the first digital natives, those who grew up with and had early access to smartphones. As Gen Z comes into adulthood, they represent the largest demographic of those who participate in nature-based recreation (NBR), …
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Utilization of Smartphones to Access Health-related Information: A Descriptive Analysis (2010-2012)
Objective: To examine the extent to which smartphone utilization to access the internet and health-related information increased from 2010 to 2012, and how this utilization varies by demographics and type of chronic disease. Methods: Analysis was done on publicly available de-identified survey data …
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