Posts Tagged sensor
Sajal K. Das receives 2009 Technical Achievement Award
Posted by 0845 Telephone Numbers in Mobile Computing on July 24th, 2010
The IEEE Computer Society bestowed its 2009 Technical Achievement Award on Sajal K. Das for his pioneering contributions to sensor networks. Sajal K. Das is a Distinguished Scholar Professor of Computer Science and Engineering–and the founding director of the Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking–at the University of Texas at Arlington. He also serves as a program director at the US National Science Foundation. Das received the Lockheed Martin Teaching Excellence Award in 2009, the IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Engineering Educator Award in 2008, the IEEE Ft. Worth Section Engineer of the Year Award in 2007, the UTA Academy of Distinguished Scholars Award in 2006, the University Award for Distinguished Record of Research in 2005, the Engineering Research Excellence Award in 2003, and the Outstanding Computer Science Faculty Award in 2001. He holds a BS from Calcutta University, an MS from the Indian Institute of Science, and a PhD from the University of Central Florida, all in computer science. His current research interests include wireless and sensor networks, mobile and ubiquitous computing, biological networks, and applied game theory. Das is the editor in chief of Elsevier’s Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal, and associate editor of both IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. He is also founder of the IEEE WoWMoM and PerCom Conferences. Das is a senior member of the IEEE. awards.computer.org
Mobile Crash Call MCC
Posted by 0845 Telephone Numbers in Mobile Computing on July 16th, 2010
Software which saves lives! Project at FH Hagenberg / Mobile Computing in 3rd semester by Christian Feldbacher, Johannes Seidl and Philipp Rakuschan Install the application on your mobile with an integrated acceleration (eg Nokia 5500, N95, N82, N93i) and a crash is automatically detected. After the deactivation time of the alarm of 60 seconds a SMS is sent to the ambulance so that they can locate your position.
Placement Aware Mobile Computing (UIST 2008)
Posted by 0845 Telephone Numbers in Mobile Computing on May 20th, 2010
Numerous methods have been proposed that allow mobile devices to determine where they are located (eg, home or office) and in some cases, predict what activity the user is currently engaged in (eg, walking, sitting, or driving). While useful, this sensing currently only tells part of a much richer story. To allow devices to act most appropriately to the situation they are in, it would also be very helpful to know about their placement – for example whether they are sitting on a desk, hidden in a drawer, placed in a pocket, or held in ones hand – as different device behaviors may be called for in each of these situations. In this paper, we describe a simple, small, and inexpensive multispectral optical sensor for identifying materials in proximity to a device. This information can be used in concert with eg, location information, to estimate, for example, that the device is sitting on the desk at home, or in the pocket at work. This paper discusses several potential uses of this technology, as well as results from a two-part study, which indicates that this technique can detect placement at 94.4% accuracy with real-world placement sets. www.chrisharrison.net Harrison, Chris and Hudson, Scott E. Lightweight Material Detection for Placement-Aware Mobile Computing. In Proceedings of the 21st Annual ACM Symposium on User interface Software and Technology. UIST ‘08. ACM, New York, NY, 279-282.