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Showing 1 to 20 of 6358 for “"mobile"”.
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Mobile-mentory mobile documentaries in the mediascape
… investigates the potential of and prospects for mobile documentary filmmaking. As a result of practice-led research, the city film Max with a Keitai was produced on mobile camera phones for cinematic projection. The feature-length documentary portrays the contemporary Japanese megalopolis through …
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Mobile & Wired: Tweens In An Interactive Mobile World
… pre-adolescent children aged 9-13 (tweens) use mobile technologies for intentional and/or unintentional learning as they participate in formal and informal activities in their everyday lives, exploring the skills and digital literacies that are cultivated during these interactions. The study …
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Mobile cinema
… and in particular enable the creation of mobile cinema. Stories are always constrained by the medium in which they are told and the mode by which they are delivered to an audience. This dissertation addresses the design of content, systems, and tools that facilitate the emerging type of …
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The mobile common : A guide to mobile open source and its effects on mobile device manufacturers
At the beginning of 2009, the global mobile industry is in the midst of a revolution, characterized by a trend towards openness, driven by technological advances, evolving consumer demands and increasing competition. Open mobile operating systems, which allowed third party software development, …
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Mobile information management : investigating paces of interaction using mobile devices
Mobile computing, by necessity, introduces its own paradigm of interaction and design complexities. Rather than trying to re-create miniature desktop systems, designers should focus on creating mobile software: software that can tolerate intermittent connectivity and does not require full cognitive …
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Contextual mobile adaptation
… ubicomp systems, especially those designed for mobile devices. By improving techniques and infrastructure to support adaptation it is possible for ubicomp systems to not only sense and adapt to the environments they are running in, but also retrieve and install new functionality so as to better …
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Mobile design semantics
Given the growing number of mobile apps and their increasing impact on modern life, researchers have developed black-box approaches to mine mobile app design and interaction data. Although the data captured during interaction mining is descriptive, it does not expose the design semantics of UIs: …
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Efficient mobile computing
… technological limitations, the new generation of mobile processors should have a better energy efficiency to support an acceptable battery life. On the other hand, TLP of current mobile applications is measured to be mostly less than 2, which implies mobile processors should have high performance …
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Mobile obesity study
… [5]. The main idea of the study is to use a mobile device (in our case, a mobile phone) to automatically and continuously monitor physical activity and then to reinforce increases in physical activity using positive reinforcement and operant conditioning learning theory. Prior work in …
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Mobile robot relocation
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 2001.
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Mobile Exergaming Heuristics
… in part because of a lack of exercise. Increased mobile technology availability can have negative effects on amount of exercise, but they can have positive effects as well. Leveraging mobile technology to encourage and motivate exercise has potential to decrease unhealthy lifestyles, especially …
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Empirical Studies of Mobile Apps and Their Dependence on Mobile Platforms
Our increasing reliance on mobile devices has given rise to a new class of software applications (i.e., mobile apps). Tens of thousands of developers have developed hundreds of thousands of mobile apps that are available across multiple platforms. These apps are used by millions of people around …
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A novel approach to protecting mobile healthcare applications in mobile cloud
… the movement in the computing landscape towards mobile devices. As would be expected, the proliferation of mobile devices has led to an increase in their being a target for malware. In addition to this change in the sphere of personal computing devices there has, at the same time, been a shift of …
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Mobile network design : Orange UK 2G to 3G mobile backhaul evolution
… on the evolution of a GSM/GPRS (2G) cellular mobile network to UMTS (3G) and then subsequently, HSDPA. The particular technical area of research relates to the mobile backhaul network which provides the connectivity between radio cell sites which support the wide area radio coverage, and the …
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MIMO channel modelling and simulation for cellular and mobile-to-mobile
Recently, mobile-to-mobile (M2M) communications have received much attention due to several emerging applications, such as wireless mobile ad hoc networks, relay-based cellular networks, and dedicated short range communications (DSRC) for intelligent transportation systems (e.g., IEEE 802.11p …
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Mobile People, Mobile God: Mobile Societies, Monotheism, and the Effects of Ecological Landscapes on the Development of Ancient Religions
… of the apparent interconnection between mobile societies, monotheism, and a respective lack of temple building culture. Although the primary subjects of the argument are very ancient religious societies, this research is eminently relevant to modern humans because we continue to be …
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Usage of mobile money services : a case of mobile network operator systems.
Mobile money which refers to the use of mobile phones to perform financial and banking functions has increasingly become popular in the world today. Not only has mobile money brought advantages of convenience, safe transactions, 24 hours access to its users, mobile money has also created a great …
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Usage of mobile money services : a case of mobile network operator systems.
Mobile money which refers to the use of mobile phones to perform financial and banking functions has increasingly become popular in the world today. Not only has mobile money brought advantages of convenience, safe transactions, 24 hours access to its users, mobile money has also created a great …
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Mobile nodes: mobile and locative media, everyday life and sense of place
… between the use of place-specific information in mobile communication technologies and the different aspects of place-making and self-presentation in London. Through a study of empirical data collected from seven focus groups, during which a total of 38 participants were asked to draw sketch maps …
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