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Showing 1 to 20 of 411 for “"mobile phones"”.
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Audience participation using mobile phones as musical instruments
… a music piece for audience participation using mobile phones as musical instruments in a music concert setting. Inspired by the ubiquity of smart phones, I attempted to accomplish audience engagement in a music performance by crafting an accessible musical instrument with which audience can be a …
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A high data capacity barcode for mobile phones
… increasingly ubiquitous availability of camera phones has created a new platform to facilitate this data capture. However, it is challenging to decode colour barcodes as the colour values vary greatly under different lighting conditions. In addition, images captured by mobile phone cameras can …
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Evaluating collaborative filtering content recommenders for mobile phones
The high adoption of mobile phones coupled with 3G technology can extend Internet access to new communities. Yet such access is currently impractical because mobile phone interfaces are cumbersome to use. In addition, hierarchical menus and search engines pose an interaction barrier to the …
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Mobile phones for development: How have women in the informal sector used their mobile phones to enhance themselves and their business?
… how women in the informal sector made use of mobile phones to enhance their wellbeing and their businesses. The study was carried out within the discourse of information technology for development where it is argued that information technologies have the potential to improve on people's lives. …
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Towards pedestrian simultaneous localisation and mapping with mobile phones
… pedestrian migrations inside buildings using mobile phones. The IPS revolves around using known methods in robotics, such as simultaneous localization and mapping(SLAM), to see if they can be adapted to work using only the sensors available in mobile phones. Research into phones sensors and …
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Privacy-Preserving Photo Taking and Accessing for Mobile Phones
… of cameras embedded in devices such as smart phones and wearables. These mobile devices and as well as apps installed on them are designed to be extremely convenient for users to take, store and share photos. In spite of the convenience brought by ubiquitous cameras, users' privacy may be …
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A Framework for Evaluating the Computational Aspects of Mobile Phones
… the world receiving coverage for their wireless phones in that year, interest in these devices as more than mere communicators has greatly increased. In the mid-to-late 1990s, digital cameras began to be incorporated into cellphones, followed shortly thereafter by Global Positioning System (GPS) …
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Developing Java Programs on Android Mobile Phones Using Speech Recognition
<p>Nowadays Android operating system based mobile phones and tablets are widely used and had millions of users around the world. The popularity of this operating system is due to its multi-tasking, ease of access and diverse device options. “Java Programming Speech Recognition Application” is an …
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Enabling Usage Pattern-based Logical Status Inference for Mobile Phones
<p>Logical statuses of mobile users, such as isBusy and isAlone, are the key enabler for a plethora of context-aware mobile applications. While on-board hardware sensors (such as motion, proximity, and location sensors) have been extensively studied for logical status inference, continuous usage …
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Can mobile phones enhance refugees' integration? : a South African perspective
Supervisor: K.A. Johnstone Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-56).
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Design and testing of a sensor middleware for mobile phones
… of the physical world is a challenging task for mobile applications. There is no standardized method of obtaining data from sensors or for distributing those data to applications that use it. Consequently, many researchers in mobile sensors end up writing custom software to interact with their …
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Social fMRI : measuring and designing social mechanisms using mobile phones
… context, the observation that the diffusion of mobile applications relies more on the face-to-face interaction ties than on self-perceived friendship ties, and a gained understanding of the evolution of modeling and prediction processes over time and varying sample sizes.
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Predictive modeling of health status using motion analysis from mobile phones
… studies of using sensor data from regular smartphones to accurately measure walking patterns, in order to monitoring health status for cardiopulmonary patients. Fifty five pulmonary patients were participated in the study. The sensor data for their walk test and free walk are collected and …
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Enabling anonymous crime reporting on mobile phones in the developing world
… supplementary service data (USSD) on a mobile phone and an anonymization module that is supported by a k-anonymity algorithm. The advantage of using USSD is that it is available to all mobile phones (including the more basic/nonsmart phones that are used by a large percentage of the …
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How refugees in South Africa use mobile phones for social connectedness
… host country because of a myriad of challenges. Mobile phones have become one of the main tools for promoting their wellbeing and supporting the integration of refugee communities on the margins of society. Mobile phones can contribute towards reducing isolation and loneliness, and assist in …
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Mobile phones and market participation among smallholder farmers in the Bolivian altiplano
… is costly for the distant farmers. Landline phones are generally not available; the only way prior to the introduction of mobile phones to get information about markets was to transport a member of the household to the market or to deliver without information. Using ordinary least squares …
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Video quality requirements for South African Sign Language communications over mobile phones.
This project aims to find the minimum video resolution and frame rate that supports intelligible cell phone based video communications in South African Sign Language.
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Social patterns influencing the adoption of mobile phones in the farming community
… influence of social patterns on the adoption of mobile phones in agricultural society. It targeted small farmers in the African society, and its population was drawn from Tanzania. The study was conducted with the knowledge that small (peasant) farmers make up a large component of the African …
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Will you help me : enhancing personal safety and security utilizing mobile phones
… for enhancing safety and security using cellular phones. This system has two main components: a master phone application to assist people who need to take care of their loved ones, and a slave phone application to provide help to care-recipients who need attention from their caregivers. This …
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Media are social actors: Individuals' social responses to social robots and mobile phones
… technologies including social robots and smartphones become more personal and persuasive, questions of how users respond to them socially, what individual factors leverage the relationship, and what constitutes the social influence of these technologies need to be addressed. As an expansion of …
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