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Chapter and Conference Paper
DanceVibe: Assistive Dancing for the Hearing Impaired
Dancing to the rhythm in music comes natural for most of us. This however is a little far-fetched for the hearing impaired. Not being able to hear the music, the hearing impaired rely on visual aid and techniq...
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Article
A mobile mediation tool for improving interaction between depressed individuals and caregivers
Depression, a common mental disorder, significantly affects an individual’s ability to live a normal life. Excessive reassurance-seeking is a common interpersonal behavior characteristic of depression and ofte...
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Article
Unsupervised Learning for Solving RSS Hardware Variance Problem in WiFi Localization
Hardware variance can significantly degrade the positional accuracy of RSS-based WiFi localization systems. Although manual adjustment can reduce positional error, this solution is not scalable as the number o...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Game Bot Detection Based on Avatar Trajectory
In recent years, online gaming has become one of the most popular Internet activities, but cheating activity, such as the use of game bots, has increased as a consequence. Generally, the gaming community disag...
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Article
Open AccessIdentifying MMORPG Bots: A Traffic Analysis Approach
Massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPGs) have become extremely popular among network gamers. Despite their success, one of MMORPG's greatest challenges is the increasing use of game bots, that...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Enabling Calorie-Aware Cooking in a Smart Kitchen
As a daily activity, home cooking is an act of care for family members. Most family cooks are willing to learn healthy cooking. However, learning healthy cooking knowledge and putting the learned knowledge int...
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Article
GETA sandals: a footstep location tracking system
This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of a footstep based indoor location system. The traditional Japanese GETA sandals are equipped with force, ultrasonic, orientation, RFID sensors and ...
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Article
Point-of-capture archiving and editing of personal experiences from a mobile device
Personal experience computing is an emerging research area in computing support for capturing, archiving, and editing. This paper presents our design, implementation, and evaluation of a mobile authoring tool ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Designing Smart Living Objects – Enhancing vs. Distracting Traditional Human–Object Interaction
To realize Weiser’s vision of ubiquitous computing, a popular approach has been to create so-called smart living objects, which are everyday objects in our living environment augmented with digital technology. In...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Modeling and Optimizing Positional Accuracy Based on Hyperbolic Geometry for the Adaptive Radio Interferometric Positioning System
One of the most important performance objectives for a localization system is positional accuracy. It is fundamental and essential to general location-aware services. The radio interferometric positioning (RIP...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Playful Tray: Adopting Ubicomp and Persuasive Techniques into Play-Based Occupational Therapy for Reducing Poor Eating Behavior in Young Children
This study has created the Playful Tray that adopts Ubicomp and persuasive techniques into play-based occupational therapy for reducing poor eating behavior in young children after they reached their self-feed...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Diet-Aware Dining Table: Observing Dietary Behaviors over a Tabletop Surface
We are what we eat. Our everyday food choices affect our long-term and short-term health. In the traditional health care, professionals assess and weigh each individual’s dietary intake using intensive labor a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Collaborative Localization: Enhancing WiFi-Based Position Estimation with Neighborhood Links in Clusters
Location-aware services can benefit from accurate and reliable indoor location tracking. The widespread adoption of 802.11x wireless LAN as the network infrastructure creates the opportunity to deploy WiFi-bas...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The GETA Sandals: A Footprint Location Tracking System
This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of a footprint-based indoor location system on traditional Japanese GETA sandals. Our footprint location system can significantly reduce the amoun...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Object Reminder and Safety Alarm
This paper introduces a novel approach to enhancing safety through RFID technology, location tracking, and monitoring person-object interaction. We design and develop RFID-based wearable devices for (1)trackin...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Browser State Repository Service
We introduce browser state repository (BSR) service that allows a user to save and restore multiple independent snapshots of web sessions on a browser. At a later time, the user can retrieve any saved snapshot on...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A soft real time scheduling server in UNIX operating system
We present a soft real-time CPU server for Continuous Media processing in the UNIX environment. The server is a daemon process from which applications can request and acquire soft real-time QoS (Quality of Ser...
