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MOBISYS
2007
ACM
14 years 5 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...
IJSNET
2011
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13 years 18 days ago
Sensor integration for perinatology research
— The numbers of high-risk pregnancies and premature births are increasing due to the steadily higher age at which women get pregnant. The long-term quality of life of the neonat...
Wei Chen, Jun Hu, Sibrecht Bouwstra, Sidarto Bamba...
WETICE
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Curball--A Prototype Tangible Game for Inter-Generational Play
Older people have been the focus of research for ubiquitous computing applications. While many of these are understandably focused on health and aging in place issues, there is al...
Dagmar Kern, Mark Stringer, Geraldine Fitzpatrick,...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Catalyzing social support for breast cancer patients
Social support is a critical, yet underutilized resource when undergoing cancer care. Underutilization occurs in two conditions: (a) when patients fail to seek out information, ma...
Meredith M. Skeels, Kenton T. Unruh, Christopher P...
ICS
2007
Tsinghua U.
13 years 11 months ago
Proactive fault tolerance for HPC with Xen virtualization
Large-scale parallel computing is relying increasingly on clusters with thousands of processors. At such large counts of compute nodes, faults are becoming common place. Current t...
Arun Babu Nagarajan, Frank Mueller, Christian Enge...