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CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Creek watch: pairing usefulness and usability for successful citizen science
Citizen science projects can collect a wealth of scientific data, but that data is only helpful if it is actually used. While previous citizen science research has mostly focused ...
Sunyoung Kim, Christine Robson, Thomas Zimmerman, ...
MOBISYS
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
Indoor localization without infrastructure using the acoustic background spectrum
We introduce a new technique for determining a mobile phone’s indoor location even when Wi-Fi infrastructure is unavailable or sparse. Our technique is based on a new ambient so...
Stephen P. Tarzia, Peter A. Dinda, Robert P. Dick,...
TMC
2012
11 years 10 months ago
E-MiLi: Energy-Minimizing Idle Listening in Wireless Networks
WiFi interface is known to be a primary energy consumer in mobile devices, and idle listening (IL) is the dominant source of energy consumption in WiFi. Most existing protocols, s...
Xinyu Zhang, Kang G. Shin
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Leakage-aware energy synchronization for wireless sensor networks
To ensure sustainable operations of wireless sensor systems, environmental energy harvesting has been regarded as the right solution for long-term applications. In energy-dynamic ...
Ting Zhu, Ziguo Zhong, Yu Gu, Tian He, Zhi-Li Zhan...
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
COMBINE: leveraging the power of wireless peers through collaborative downloading
Mobile devices are increasingly equipped with multiple network interfaces: Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) interfaces for local connectivity and Wireless Wide Area Network (WWA...
Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, L...