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2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Improving energy efficiency of location sensing on smartphones
Location-based applications have become increasingly popular on smartphones over the past years. The active use of these applications can however cause device battery drain owing ...
Zhenyun Zhuang, Kyu-Han Kim, Jatinder Pal Singh
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
The family window: the design and evaluation of a domestic media space
Families have a strong need to connect with their loved ones over distance. However, most technologies do not provide the same feelings of connectedness that one feels from seeing...
Tejinder K. Judge, Carman Neustaedter, Andrew F. K...
CODES
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
A greedy buffer allocation algorithm for power-aware communication in body sensor networks
Monitoring human movements using wireless sensory devices promises to revolutionize the delivery of healthcare services. In spite of their potentials for many application domains,...
Hassan Ghasemzadeh, Roozbeh Jafari
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Effect of MobileASL on communication among deaf users
MobileASL, a software program enabling sign-language video on mobile devices over conventional U.S. cellular networks, was evaluated in a three-week field study during the summer ...
Joy Kim, Jessica J. Tran, Tressa W. Johnson, Richa...
PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
An Empirical Analysis of Wi-Fi Activity in Three Urban Scenarios
—A better understanding of people’s daily behaviors with respect to the underlying wireless network is a crucial step toward Wi-Fi based pervasive networking. Existing analyses...
Thomas Claveirole, Mathias Boc, Marcelo Dias de Am...