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HUC
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Vehicular speed estimation using received signal strength from mobile phones
This paper introduces an algorithm that estimates the speed of a mobile phone by matching time-series signal strength data to a known signal strength trace from the same road. Kno...
Gayathri Chandrasekaran, Tam Vu, Alexander Varshav...
PERCOM
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
PerFallD: A pervasive fall detection system using mobile phones
Falls are a major health risk that diminish the quality of life among elderly people. With the elderly population surging, especially with aging "baby boomers", fall dete...
Jiangpeng Dai, Xiaole Bai, Zhimin Yang, Zhaohui Sh...
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 18 days ago
Hang on a sec!: effects of proactive mediation of phone conversations while driving
Conversing on cell phones while driving is a risky, yet commonplace activity. State legislatures in the U.S. have enacted rules that limit hand-held phone conversations while driv...
Shamsi T. Iqbal, Eric Horvitz, Yun-Cheng Ju, Ella ...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
A systematic approach for cell-phone worm containment
Cell phones are increasingly becoming attractive targets of various worms, which cause the leakage of user privacy, extra service charges and depletion of battery power. In this w...
Liang Xie, Hui Song, Trent Jaeger, Sencun Zhu
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
QR-Codes for the chronically homeless
We propose a system to use QR codes and cheap cell phones to alleviate some challenges faced by the chronically homeless. We propose combining the affordability, simplicity and po...
Meseret Gebrekristos, Ahmad Aljadaan, Kumud Bihani