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Showing 1 to 20 of 228 for “"location-based"”.
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Location Based Authentication
… conventional authentication mechanisms are based on three factors: knowledge, possession and biometrics. These factors are prone to theft, hardware failure, expensive, etc. Consequently, there is a need of a stronger solution. One such solution is Location Based Authentication that considers …
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OnTheRun : a location-based exercise game
… immersive game by presenting a series of story-based running tasks to motivate the player. Requiring that the game be played while running constrains the design both in terms of input and output, and this system demonstrates ways to manage those constraints while still providing a compelling …
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Consumer Location Based Service Perceptions and Response: a focus on Location Based Services and Emerging Mobile Lifestyles
Location Based Services (LBS) and electronically mediated lifestyles (e-lifestyles) represent emergent new areas with approaches (e.g. apps and e-activities) billed to change customer experiences and responses. Marketers are confronted with a challenge of understanding how consumers engage with …
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PRIVACY PRESERVATION IN LOCATION-BASED PROXIMITY SERVICES
One of the most common location-based services (LBS) in the geo-aware social network market is the notification of friends geographically in proximity. In addition to the privacy threats related to the use of traditional LBS, there are other privacy threats specific to proximity services. Existing …
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Topic Modeling Location-Based Social Media Applications
<p>Topic modeling is a technique used in text analysis and mining across various research domains. The number of social media applications and users is increasing daily, and analyzing these data streams provides added value, relevance, and significance for both scholarly and practitioner …
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Etherthreads : an infrastructure for location-based messages
This thesis proposes an infrastructure for location-based services for Bluetooth enabled cellular phones. Specifically, it explores the use of this architecture in a location-based messaging application. A user can send or receive messages based on their current location, thereby increasing the …
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Location-Based Social Media for Activity Space Modeling
… time-consuming to collect, the development of location-based social media (LBSM) has provided more flexibility for researchers regarding where, when, and how to collect information about human activity behaviors. Studies utilizing LBSM to analyze human activity patterns have grown rapidly. …
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Location-based mobile E-commerce for tourist services
… they visit. These services, which are known as location based services, are normally available to only subscribers of those services. For mobile users who are not subscribers this may be unfair, especially if a mobile user is new in that environment, as he or she remains unaware of services that …
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Location – Based Information for Sustainable Development of Forests
… decision making to achieve a sustainable future. Location based information has played an important role in sustainable decision-making for decades. The role of this information as an aid for sustainable forest management has been lightly explored by academia, policy makers and politicians. This …
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Location based services in wireless ad hoc networks
"In this dissertation, we investigate location based services in wireless ad hoc networks from four different aspects - i) location privacy in wireless sensor networks (privacy), ii) end-to-end secure communication in randomly deployed wireless sensor networks (security), iii) quality versus …
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Integrating Haptic Feedback into Mobile Location Based Services
… important additional method especially in Mobile Location Based Services such as knowledge discovery, pedestrian navigation and notification systems. A knowledge discovery system called the Haptic GeoWand is a low interaction system that allows users to query geo-tagged data around them by using a …
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TaleBlazer : a platform for creating multiplayer location based games
… is a platform that allows users to create location-based games for their mobile device. Using a block-based programming language, game designers can control the behavior of agents that interact with the game players as they walk around in the world with their GPS enabled device. This thesis …
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Visual analytics of location-based social networks for decision support
… in technology have enabled people to add location information to social networks called Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) where people share their communication and whereabouts not only in their daily lives, but also during abnormal situations, such as crisis events. However, since …
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Computer detection of spatial visualization in a location-based task
… this dissertation, we describe a novel, behavior-based, spatial visualization detection technique. The technique does not depend on sensors or knowledge of the environment and can be adopted on generic computers. In a Census Bureau location-based address verification task, detection rates exceeded …
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TaleBlazer : using iBeacons for indoor location-based augmented reality games
TaleBlazer is a platform for creating and playing location-based educational augmented reality games. This thesis describes the design and implementation of new indoor location-based functionality in TaleBlazer, based on the use of iBeacon technology. It describes how the new functionality can be …
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Increasing customization in a location-based augmented reality software platform
… for adding customizable icons to an existing location-based augmented reality software platform. This platform is comprised of a browser-based editor and a mobile application. In the editor, my work included increasing the size and variety of the existing icon palette, as well as, including a …
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Exploring the Role of Prospective Memory in Location-Based Reminders
Location-based reminder systems (LBRs) are typically used to remind people to complete a to-do task at a particular location. People use their prospective memory to remember future to-do tasks. However, the current design of LBRs fails to take advantage of human prospective memory theory. In this …
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Security in pervasive health care using location-based key generation schemes
… phase relatively more secured with the use of location information. Authentication of biosensor nodes is also an important issue and has been taken into consideration in our schemes. Simulation of our schemes illustrates that they outperform some existing schemes and comparatively incurs less …
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People, Place, and Pokémon: How Location-Based Games Enhance Well-Being
… connections and well-being with a focus on location-based games like Pokémon Go which blur the line between physical and virtual reality. It concludes with suggestions for how the disconnected disciplines of new media, place, and positive psychology can come together to explore the potential …
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