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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"smartphone sensors"”.
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Travel Mode Identification with Smartphone Sensors
… relies on large-scale infrastructure-based fixed sensors or on 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 …
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LSTM and extended dead reckoning automobile route prediction using smartphone sensors
We examine the application of two solutions to resolving automobile route shape using non-GPS sensor information provided by a smart-phone. This is motivated by the unreliability of GPS sensor information due to the ease of spoofing of GPS sensor data and areas of low signal. A trace is generated …
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Applications of Sensor Fusion to Classification, Localization and Mapping
… In addition, there is a huge proliferation of smartphones in the world with a growing set of cheap powerful embedded sensors. Smartphone sensors can collectively monitor a diverse range of human activities and the surrounding environment far beyond the scale of what was possible before. …
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Applying multimodal sensing to human location estimation
"Mobile devices like smartphones and smartwatches are beginning to ""stick"" to the human body. Given that these devices are equipped with a variety of sensors, they are becoming a natural platform to understand various aspects of human behavior. This dissertation will focus on just one dimension …
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Maintaining privacy during continuous motion sensing
Mobile devices contain sensors which allow continuous recording of a user's motion allowing the development of activity, fitness and health applications. With varied applications, the motion sensors present new privacy problems which require protection. This dissertation builds on previous work …
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Toward Practical, In-The-Wild, and Reusable Wearable Activity Classification
… cannot capture much movement information (e.g., smartphone sensors and wrist-worn sensors). These classifiers either do not address the bigger picture of making activity recognition more practical and being able to recognize more complex and naturalistic activities, or try to address this issue …
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Investigating Violation Behavior at Intersections using Intelligent Transportation Systems: A Feasibility Analysis on Vehicle/Bicycle-to-Infrastructure Communications as a Potential Countermeasure
… actions to avoid or mitigate crashes. A smartphone application was developed to collect sensor data used to conduct the transportation mode recognition task. Driver violation prediction task at signalized intersections was conducted using observational and simulator data. Also, a …
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Rethinking laboratory activities with digital technologies and developments in physics education
… was presented using Jupyter Notebooks and smartphone sensors, further integrating computational elements into the curriculum. In conclusion, this thesis shows the potential of digital technologies and active learning methodologies in improving student learning. By fostering critical …
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Analyzing the Impact of Spatio-Temporal Sensor Resolution on Player Experience in Augmented Reality Games
… with automating everyday tasks of human life, smartphones have become one of the most popular devices to play video games on due to their interactivity. Smartphones are embedded with various sensors which enhance their ability to adopt new new interaction techniques for video games. These …
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Investigating the association between the built environment and active travel of young adults using location based technology
… manner, I tested the applicability of using a smartphone application that I developed to simultaneously collect location, time, and accelerometer data, and developed a method to automatically classify these data into different travel modes. Second, to overcome the Uncertain Geographic Context …
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Mobile phone technology as an aid to contemporary transport questions in walkability, in the context of developing countries
… and inefficiencies of human memories because smartphone sensors such as GPS provides information with accuracies within 5m, providing superior accuracy and precision compared to other traditional methods. The data is also spatial in nature, allowing for a range of possible applications and use …
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Data-Driven Simulation Modeling of Construction and Infrastructure Operations Using Process Knowledge Discovery
… tasks was developed. Data was collected using smartphone accelerometers and gyroscopes from construction entities to generate significant statistical time- and frequency-domain features. The extracted features served as the input of different types of machine learning algorithms that were …