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CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Interlaced QWERTY: accommodating ease of visual search and input flexibility in shape writing
Shape writing is an input technology for touch-screen mobile phones and pen-tablets. To shape write text, the user spells out word patterns by sliding a finger or stylus over a gr...
Shumin Zhai, Per Ola Kristensson
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Design requirements for technologies that encourage physical activity
Overweight and obesity are a global epidemic, with over one billion overweight adults worldwide (300+ million of whom are obese). Obesity is linked to several serious health probl...
Sunny Consolvo, Katherine Everitt, Ian E. Smith, J...
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MOBISYS
2008
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Symphony: synchronous two-phase rate and power control in 802.11 wlans
Adaptive transmit power control in 802.11 Wireless LANs (WLANs) on a per-link basis helps increase network capacity and improves battery life of Wifi-enabled mobile devices. Howev...
Kishore Ramachandran, Ravi Kokku, Honghai Zhang, M...
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Preserving location privacy in wireless lans
The broadcast and tetherless nature of wireless networks and the widespread deployment of Wi-Fi hotspots makes it easy to remotely locate a user by observing her wireless signals....
Tao Jiang, Helen J. Wang, Yih-Chun Hu
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MOBISYS
2007
ACM
16 years 2 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...