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PERVASIVE
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
RF-Based Initialisation for Inertial Pedestrian Tracking
Location information is an important source of context for ubiquitous computing systems. We have previously developed a wearable location system that combines a foot-mounted inerti...
Oliver Woodman, Robert Harle
PERVASIVE
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Securing RFID Systems by Detecting Tag Cloning
Cloning of RFID tags can lead to financial losses in many commercial RFID applications. There are two general strategies to provide security: prevention and detection. The securit...
Mikko Lehtonen, Daniel Ostojic, Alexander Ilic, Fl...
PERVASIVE
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
PL-Tags: Detecting Batteryless Tags through the Power Lines in a Building
We present a system, called PL-Tags, for detecting the presence of batteryless tags in a building or home through the power lines. The excitation (or interrogation) and detection o...
Shwetak N. Patel, Erich P. Stuntebeck, Thomas Robe...
PERVASIVE
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Enhancing Navigation Information with Tactile Output Embedded into the Steering Wheel
Dagmar Kern, Paul Marshall, Eva Hornecker, Yvonne ...
PERVASIVE
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Mobile Device Interaction with Force Sensing
Abstract. We propose a new type of input for mobile devices by sensing forces applied by users to device casings. Deformation of the devices is not necessary for such “force gest...
James Scott, Lorna M. Brown, Mike Molloy
PERVASIVE
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Askus: Amplifying Mobile Actions
Information sharing has undeniably become ubiquitous in the Internet age. The global village created on the Internet provides people with instant access to information and news on ...
Shin'ichi Konomi, Niwat Thepvilojanapong, Ryohei S...
PERVASIVE
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Methodologies for Continuous Cellular Tower Data Analysis
This paper presents novel methodologies for the analysis of continuous cellular tower data from 215 randomly sampled subjects in a major urban city. We demonstrate the potential of...
Nathan Eagle, John A. Quinn, Aaron Clauset
PERVASIVE
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
On the Anonymity of Home/Work Location Pairs
Abstract. Many applications benefit from user location data, but location data raises privacy concerns. Anonymization can protect privacy, but identities can sometimes be inferred...
Philippe Golle, Kurt Partridge
PERVASIVE
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Situvis: A Visual Tool for Modeling a User's Behaviour Patterns in a Pervasive Environment
Abstract. One of the key challenges faced when developing contextaware pervasive systems is to capture the set of inputs that we want a system to adapt to. Arbitrarily specifying r...
Adrian K. Clear, Ross Shannon, Thomas Holland, Aar...
PERVASIVE
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Working Overtime: Patterns of Smartphone and PC Usage in the Day of an Information Worker
Research has demonstrated that information workers often manage several different computing devices in an effort to balance convenience, mobility, input efficiency, and content rea...
Amy K. Karlson, Brian Meyers, Andy Jacobs, Paul Jo...