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CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Design requirements for technologies that encourage physical activity
Overweight and obesity are a global epidemic, with over one billion overweight adults worldwide (300+ million of whom are obese). Obesity is linked to several serious health probl...
Sunny Consolvo, Katherine Everitt, Ian E. Smith, J...
HCI
2009
13 years 6 months ago
Spearcon Performance and Preference for Auditory Menus on a Mobile Phone
This study investigates the use of spearcons as an auditory cue. It looks simultaneously at both performance and subjective preference of spearcons and text-to-speech (TTS). The st...
Bruce N. Walker, Anya Kogan
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Experiences of designing and deploying intelligent sensor nodes to monitor hand-arm vibrations in the field
The NEMO project is exploring the use of mobile sensor nodes to augment physical work artefacts in order to ensure compliance with health and safety regulations. In this paper we ...
Christos Efstratiou, Nigel Davies, Gerd Kortuem, J...
SIGKDD
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Activity recognition using cell phone accelerometers
Mobile devices are becoming increasingly sophisticated and the latest generation of smart cell phones now incorporates many diverse and powerful sensors. These sensors include GPS...
Jennifer R. Kwapisz, Gary M. Weiss, Samuel Moore
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Blindsight: eyes-free access to mobile phones
Many mobile phones integrate services such as personal calendars. Given the social nature of the stored data, however, users often need to access such information as part of a pho...
Kevin A. Li, Patrick Baudisch, Ken Hinckley