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HUC
2009
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Experiences of participatory sensing in the wild
We present two studies of participatory sensing in the wild, in which groups of young people used sensors to collect environmental data along with contextual information such as p...
Mark Paxton, Steve Benford
HUC
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Validated caloric expenditure estimation using a single body-worn sensor
In 2007, approximately 30% of US adults were obese, with related health care costs exceeding 100 billion dollars. Clearly, the obesity epidemic represents a growing societal conce...
Jonathan Lester, Carl Hartung, Laura Pina, Ryan Li...
HUC
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Playful bottle: a mobile social persuasion system to motivate healthy water intake
This study of mobile persuasion system explores the use of a mobile phone, when attached to an everyday object used by an everyday behavior, becomes a tool to sense and influence ...
Meng-Chieh Chiu, Shih-Ping Chang, Yu-Chen Chang, H...
HUC
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Toward emergent technology for blended public displays
Public displays are becoming increasingly commonplace, yet recent studies place the effectiveness and user acceptance of them into doubt. This paper motivates the need for a new c...
Angie Chandler, Joe Finney, Carl Lewis, Alan J. Di...
HUC
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Simultaneous localization and mapping for pedestrians using only foot-mounted inertial sensors
In this paper we describe a new Bayesian estimation approach for simultaneous mapping and localization for pedestrians based on odometry with foot mounted inertial sensors. When s...
Patrick Robertson, Michael Angermann, Bernhard Kra...
HUC
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
inAir: measuring and visualizing indoor air quality
Good indoor air quality is a vital part of human health. Poor indoor air quality can contribute to the development of chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma, heart disease, a...
Sunyoung Kim, Eric Paulos
HUC
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Recognizing daily activities with RFID-based sensors
We explore a dense sensing approach that uses RFID sensor network technology to recognize human activities. In our setting, everyday objects are instrumented with UHF RFID tags ca...
Michael Buettner, Richa Prasad, Matthai Philipose,...