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DPPI
2007
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Shared moments: opportunities for mobile phones in religious participation
The near ubiquity of mobile phones in the world and in people's lives, have created new opportunities for reinterpretation of what these devices are and what they do. One area...
Rhiannon Sterling, John Zimmerman
CHI
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Supporting orientation for blind people using museum guides
Novel environments exploiting recent technology can enhance several tasks in applications such as mobile guides. However, in the many museum mobile guides that have been proposed,...
Giuseppe Ghiani, Barbara Leporini, Fabio Patern&og...
PERCOM
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Practical experiences in enabling and ensuring quality sensing in emergency response applications
Situational awareness in emergency response is critical. Knowing the status of the hazards, the rescue workers, and the building occupants, etc., can greatly help the incident comm...
C. Davison, Daniel Massaguer, Lilia Paradis, M. Re...
PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Towards Privacy-Sensitive Participatory Sensing
—The ubiquity of mobile devices has brought forth the concept of participatory sensing, whereby ordinary citizens can now contribute and share information from the urban environm...
Kuan Lun Huang, Salil S. Kanhere, Wen Hu
CHI
2008
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Escape: a target selection technique using visually-cued gestures
Many mobile devices have touch-sensitive screens that people interact with using fingers or thumbs. However, such interaction is difficult because targets become occluded, and bec...
Koji Yatani, Kurt Partridge, Marshall W. Bern, Mar...