C. Mancini, J. Linden, Gerd Kortuem, G. Dewsbury, Daniel Mills, P. Boyden
Whilst the ubicomp community has successfully embraced a number of societal challenges for human benefit, including healthcare and sustainability, the well-being of other animals is hitherto underrepresented. We argue that ubicomp technologies, including sensing and monitoring devices as well as tangible and embodied interfaces, could make a valuable contribution to animal welfare. This paper particularly focuses on dogs in kenneled accommodation, as we investigate the opportunities and challenges for a smart kennel aiming to foster canine welfare. We conducted an in-depth ethnographic study of a dog rehoming center over four months; based on our findings, we propose a welfare-centered framework for designing smart environments, integrating monitoring and interaction with information management. We discuss the methodological issues we encountered during the research and propose a smart ethnographic approach for similar projects.
{"title":"UbiComp for animal welfare: envisioning smart environments for kenneled dogs","authors":"C. Mancini, J. Linden, Gerd Kortuem, G. Dewsbury, Daniel Mills, P. Boyden","doi":"10.1145/2632048.2632073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2632048.2632073","url":null,"abstract":"Whilst the ubicomp community has successfully embraced a number of societal challenges for human benefit, including healthcare and sustainability, the well-being of other animals is hitherto underrepresented. We argue that ubicomp technologies, including sensing and monitoring devices as well as tangible and embodied interfaces, could make a valuable contribution to animal welfare. This paper particularly focuses on dogs in kenneled accommodation, as we investigate the opportunities and challenges for a smart kennel aiming to foster canine welfare. We conducted an in-depth ethnographic study of a dog rehoming center over four months; based on our findings, we propose a welfare-centered framework for designing smart environments, integrating monitoring and interaction with information management. We discuss the methodological issues we encountered during the research and propose a smart ethnographic approach for similar projects.","PeriodicalId":20496,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74573473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Guangwen Liu, Muhammad Asif Hossain Khan, M. Iwai, Masaki Ito, Y. Tobe, K. Sezaki, Dunstan Matekenya
Accurate estimation of elevation is important for many location based services. Although, it is possible to obtain altitude from GPS, its accuracy is unreliable and applicable in outdoors only. It is possible to use barometers on smartphones to estimate elevation in both indoor and outdoor scenarios. To this end, we proposed an integrated framework to provide ubiquitous and accurate elevation measurement using smartphones. Experiments conducted in both indoor and outdoor with different geographical characteristics reveal that our system can provide elevation with an error less than 5 meters in 90 % of the cases and less than 3 meters in 75 % of the cases, which is sufficient for most practical applications.
{"title":"Beyond horizontal location context: measuring elevation using smartphone's barometer","authors":"Guangwen Liu, Muhammad Asif Hossain Khan, M. Iwai, Masaki Ito, Y. Tobe, K. Sezaki, Dunstan Matekenya","doi":"10.1145/2638728.2641670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2638728.2641670","url":null,"abstract":"Accurate estimation of elevation is important for many location based services. Although, it is possible to obtain altitude from GPS, its accuracy is unreliable and applicable in outdoors only. It is possible to use barometers on smartphones to estimate elevation in both indoor and outdoor scenarios. To this end, we proposed an integrated framework to provide ubiquitous and accurate elevation measurement using smartphones. Experiments conducted in both indoor and outdoor with different geographical characteristics reveal that our system can provide elevation with an error less than 5 meters in 90 % of the cases and less than 3 meters in 75 % of the cases, which is sufficient for most practical applications.","PeriodicalId":20496,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90153067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Terms and Conditions (T&Cs) are frequently unread as a consequence of their complexity and length. Readability formulas are used to objectively measure this complexity, but ironically their outputs are also unreadable to many. This motivated the development of a chrome extension called Literatin that compares the complexity of popular fictional literature to T&Cs in order sensitise people to their complexity. In this paper we discuss whether this has been achieved, and outline plans to further develop the extension.
{"title":"Literatin: beyond awareness of readability in terms and conditions","authors":"Stuart Moran, E. Luger, T. Rodden","doi":"10.1145/2638728.2641684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2638728.2641684","url":null,"abstract":"Terms and Conditions (T&Cs) are frequently unread as a consequence of their complexity and length. Readability formulas are used to objectively measure this complexity, but ironically their outputs are also unreadable to many. This motivated the development of a chrome extension called Literatin that compares the complexity of popular fictional literature to T&Cs in order sensitise people to their complexity. In this paper we discuss whether this has been achieved, and outline plans to further develop the extension.","PeriodicalId":20496,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90593304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yuki Maekawa, A. Uchiyama, H. Yamaguchi, T. Higashino
We propose a method to estimate car-level train congestion using Bluetooth RSSI observed by passengers' mobile phones. Our approach employs a two-stage algorithm where car-level location of passengers is estimated to infer car-level train congestion. We have learned Bluetooth signals attenuate due to passengers' bodies, distance and doors between cars through the analysis of over 50,000 Bluetooth real samples. Based on this prior knowledge, our algorithm is designed as a Bayesian-based likelihood estimator, and is robust to the change of both passengers and congestion at stations. The car-level positions are useful for passengers' personal navigation inside stations and car-level train congestion information helps determine better strategies of taking trains. Through a field experiment, we have confirmed the algorithm can estimate the location of 16 passengers with 83% accuracy and also estimate train congestion with 0.82 F-measure value in average.
{"title":"Car-level congestion and position estimation for railway trips using mobile phones","authors":"Yuki Maekawa, A. Uchiyama, H. Yamaguchi, T. Higashino","doi":"10.1145/2632048.2636062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2632048.2636062","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a method to estimate car-level train congestion using Bluetooth RSSI observed by passengers' mobile phones. Our approach employs a two-stage algorithm where car-level location of passengers is estimated to infer car-level train congestion. We have learned Bluetooth signals attenuate due to passengers' bodies, distance and doors between cars through the analysis of over 50,000 Bluetooth real samples. Based on this prior knowledge, our algorithm is designed as a Bayesian-based likelihood estimator, and is robust to the change of both passengers and congestion at stations. The car-level positions are useful for passengers' personal navigation inside stations and car-level train congestion information helps determine better strategies of taking trains. Through a field experiment, we have confirmed the algorithm can estimate the location of 16 passengers with 83% accuracy and also estimate train congestion with 0.82 F-measure value in average.","PeriodicalId":20496,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78690397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Clinch, Mateusz Mikusz, Miriam Greis, N. Davies, A. Friday
As the cost of display hardware falls so the number of public display networks being deployed is increasing rapidly. While these networks have traditionally taken the form of digital signage used for advertising and information there is increasing interest in the vision of "open display networks" [8]. A key component of any open display network is an effective channel for disseminating applications created by third-parties and recent research has proposed a display-oriented "application store" as one such channel [5]. In this paper we present a critical analysis of the requirements and design of display application stores -- providing insights designed to help the implementers of future application stores.
{"title":"Mercury: an application store for open display networks","authors":"S. Clinch, Mateusz Mikusz, Miriam Greis, N. Davies, A. Friday","doi":"10.1145/2632048.2636080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2632048.2636080","url":null,"abstract":"As the cost of display hardware falls so the number of public display networks being deployed is increasing rapidly. While these networks have traditionally taken the form of digital signage used for advertising and information there is increasing interest in the vision of \"open display networks\" [8]. A key component of any open display network is an effective channel for disseminating applications created by third-parties and recent research has proposed a display-oriented \"application store\" as one such channel [5]. In this paper we present a critical analysis of the requirements and design of display application stores -- providing insights designed to help the implementers of future application stores.","PeriodicalId":20496,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72881546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Session details: Activity and group interactions","authors":"H. Tokuda","doi":"10.1145/3255096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3255096","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20496,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75186275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lilian de Greef, J. Stout, Mayank Goel, James A. Taylor, Minjoon Seo, Shwetak N. Patel, Eric C. Larson
Health sensing through smartphones has received considerable attention in recent years because of its promise to lower costs and provide more continuous data for tracking medical conditions. In this poster, we focus on using smartphones to sense newborn jaundice, which manifests as a yellow discoloration of the skin. Although jaundice is common in healthy newborns, early detection of extreme jaundice is essential to prevent brain damage or death. Current detection techniques, however, require clinical tests with blood samples or other specialized equipment. Consequently, newborns often depend on visual assessments of their skin color at home, which is known to be unreliable. We present BiliCam, a low-cost system that uses smartphone cameras to assess newborn jaundice.
{"title":"BiliCam: using mobile phones to monitor newborn jaundice","authors":"Lilian de Greef, J. Stout, Mayank Goel, James A. Taylor, Minjoon Seo, Shwetak N. Patel, Eric C. Larson","doi":"10.1145/2638728.2638803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2638728.2638803","url":null,"abstract":"Health sensing through smartphones has received considerable attention in recent years because of its promise to lower costs and provide more continuous data for tracking medical conditions. In this poster, we focus on using smartphones to sense newborn jaundice, which manifests as a yellow discoloration of the skin. Although jaundice is common in healthy newborns, early detection of extreme jaundice is essential to prevent brain damage or death. Current detection techniques, however, require clinical tests with blood samples or other specialized equipment. Consequently, newborns often depend on visual assessments of their skin color at home, which is known to be unreliable. We present BiliCam, a low-cost system that uses smartphone cameras to assess newborn jaundice.","PeriodicalId":20496,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication","volume":"03 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85988166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The dramatic rise in the use of social network sites (SNS) has resulted in a number of users feeling stressed about the extent of their personal use. Previous work has established that daily retrospective estimations of SNS use and access to RescueTime not only improve accuracy of estimations but also reduce perceived stress. The present study aimed to extend this by also exploring the influence of prospective estimations on stress and perceived time management. However, the study was thwarted by incredibly low engagement with RescueTime and consequently, no improvement in estimation accuracy and no reduction in stress. This indicates substantial individual differences in engagement and a requirement for external sources of motivation for using personal informatics, beyond the tasks of the study.
{"title":"Social networking use and RescueTime: the issue of engagement","authors":"Emily Collins, Jon Bird, A. Cox, Daniel Harrison","doi":"10.1145/2638728.2641322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2638728.2641322","url":null,"abstract":"The dramatic rise in the use of social network sites (SNS) has resulted in a number of users feeling stressed about the extent of their personal use. Previous work has established that daily retrospective estimations of SNS use and access to RescueTime not only improve accuracy of estimations but also reduce perceived stress. The present study aimed to extend this by also exploring the influence of prospective estimations on stress and perceived time management. However, the study was thwarted by incredibly low engagement with RescueTime and consequently, no improvement in estimation accuracy and no reduction in stress. This indicates substantial individual differences in engagement and a requirement for external sources of motivation for using personal informatics, beyond the tasks of the study.","PeriodicalId":20496,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86031933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper explores if implicit gaze based annotations can support reading comprehension tasks of second language learners. We show how to use eye tracking to add implicit annotations to the text the user reads and we start by annotating physical features (reading speed, re-reading, number of fixation areas) to documents using eye tracking. We show initial results of an ongoing experiment. So far, we recorded the eye gaze of 2 students for 2 documents. We gather initial feedback by presenting the annotated documents to two English teachers. Overall, we believe implicit annotations can be a useful feedback mechanism for second language learners.
{"title":"Implicit gaze based annotations to support second language learning","authors":"Ayano Okoso, K. Kunze, K. Kise","doi":"10.1145/2638728.2638783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2638728.2638783","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores if implicit gaze based annotations can support reading comprehension tasks of second language learners. We show how to use eye tracking to add implicit annotations to the text the user reads and we start by annotating physical features (reading speed, re-reading, number of fixation areas) to documents using eye tracking. We show initial results of an ongoing experiment. So far, we recorded the eye gaze of 2 students for 2 documents. We gather initial feedback by presenting the annotated documents to two English teachers. Overall, we believe implicit annotations can be a useful feedback mechanism for second language learners.","PeriodicalId":20496,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication","volume":"02 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86055716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this demonstration, we showcase SqueezeDiary, a novel mobile diary application that uses squeeze gestures for denoting instances of events. SqueezeDiary consists of a mobile phone and a small squeeze sensor that communicate over a Bluetooth connection. To record an event instance, the user simply squeezes the sensor, and the phone records memory cues for review later. SqueezeDiary provides features for users to swiftly record instances as they continue to live through the experience, and only reflect on the instances during their downtime.
{"title":"Squeeze the moment: denoting diary events by squeezing","authors":"M. K. Chong, J. Whittle, Umar Rashid, C. Ang","doi":"10.1145/2638728.2638734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2638728.2638734","url":null,"abstract":"In this demonstration, we showcase SqueezeDiary, a novel mobile diary application that uses squeeze gestures for denoting instances of events. SqueezeDiary consists of a mobile phone and a small squeeze sensor that communicate over a Bluetooth connection. To record an event instance, the user simply squeezes the sensor, and the phone records memory cues for review later. SqueezeDiary provides features for users to swiftly record instances as they continue to live through the experience, and only reflect on the instances during their downtime.","PeriodicalId":20496,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88221600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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