Hessah Almotiry, Hind Abahussain, Lama Alhammad, Masheal Alshehri, Reem Aldosari, Sara Alkathiri
There is an increasing interest in developing technologies that attempt to help visually impaired people in their daily lives. However, it is shown that the object identification task is still the major difficulty for visually impaired people. Although there are many applications that can be used for this task, there are still obvious limitations that require more improving. For this reason, this paper provides an analysis and evaluation for the technologies that used in the object identification task. As a result of this evaluation, it is shown that the best technology is the human computation. Moreover, a comparison between the applications that use human computation is provided in order to identify the best features that can be considered in designing efficient application to identify objects for visually impaired.
{"title":"Toward designing efficient application to identify objects for visually impaired","authors":"Hessah Almotiry, Hind Abahussain, Lama Alhammad, Masheal Alshehri, Reem Aldosari, Sara Alkathiri","doi":"10.1109/CIT.2014.79","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIT.2014.79","url":null,"abstract":"There is an increasing interest in developing technologies that attempt to help visually impaired people in their daily lives. However, it is shown that the object identification task is still the major difficulty for visually impaired people. Although there are many applications that can be used for this task, there are still obvious limitations that require more improving. For this reason, this paper provides an analysis and evaluation for the technologies that used in the object identification task. As a result of this evaluation, it is shown that the best technology is the human computation. Moreover, a comparison between the applications that use human computation is provided in order to identify the best features that can be considered in designing efficient application to identify objects for visually impaired.","PeriodicalId":341818,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Canada International Humanitarian Technology Conference - (IHTC)","volume":"404 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116391156","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}
Pub Date : 2014-06-01DOI: 10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147544
W. Kinsner
This paper describes an enhanced crowdsourcing that may be the only alternative when everything else fails in a disaster. This scheme requires radio operators that can work not only together with other communications media (such as the Internet and wireless phones), but they can also work on their own, if the other media either fail or do not exist in the area. In order to increase the number of such radio operators, a scheme for accelerated radio education and training is required. This paper describes the structure of such a course, its delivery, demonstrations, workshops, and examination that lead to a government-issued Radio Operator's Certificate. The course has evolved over the last 25 years.
{"title":"Enhanced crowdsourcing for disasters through ham-radio operators","authors":"W. Kinsner","doi":"10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147544","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes an enhanced crowdsourcing that may be the only alternative when everything else fails in a disaster. This scheme requires radio operators that can work not only together with other communications media (such as the Internet and wireless phones), but they can also work on their own, if the other media either fail or do not exist in the area. In order to increase the number of such radio operators, a scheme for accelerated radio education and training is required. This paper describes the structure of such a course, its delivery, demonstrations, workshops, and examination that lead to a government-issued Radio Operator's Certificate. The course has evolved over the last 25 years.","PeriodicalId":341818,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Canada International Humanitarian Technology Conference - (IHTC)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117147885","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}
Pub Date : 2014-06-01DOI: 10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147538
Atena Roshan Fekr, Majid Janidarmian, K. Radecka, Z. Zilic
This paper considers the problem of self-calibration of multi-sensor systems for health care cyber-biological systems, such as closed-loop glucose control. The recalibration method is performed periodically in the cloud resulted in significant advantages over traditional methods, including increased on-line accessibility and fast automated recovery from failures. Since the size of dataset has direct impact on the recalibration quality, we use cloud database which let us have a more complete recalibration dataset compared to limited on-board logging at different times and situations. Three methods are presented and evaluated in terms of accuracy and time. The proposed Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) recalibration method delivers the superior precision compared to other two techniques which are based on average and correlation. While all these approaches are generic and applicable to different medical multi-sensor systems, the experimental results are evaluated on temperature sensors due to their simple and reliable setup.
{"title":"Multi-sensor blind recalibration in mHealth applications","authors":"Atena Roshan Fekr, Majid Janidarmian, K. Radecka, Z. Zilic","doi":"10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147538","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers the problem of self-calibration of multi-sensor systems for health care cyber-biological systems, such as closed-loop glucose control. The recalibration method is performed periodically in the cloud resulted in significant advantages over traditional methods, including increased on-line accessibility and fast automated recovery from failures. Since the size of dataset has direct impact on the recalibration quality, we use cloud database which let us have a more complete recalibration dataset compared to limited on-board logging at different times and situations. Three methods are presented and evaluated in terms of accuracy and time. The proposed Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) recalibration method delivers the superior precision compared to other two techniques which are based on average and correlation. While all these approaches are generic and applicable to different medical multi-sensor systems, the experimental results are evaluated on temperature sensors due to their simple and reliable setup.","PeriodicalId":341818,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Canada International Humanitarian Technology Conference - (IHTC)","volume":"256 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121239142","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}
Pub Date : 2014-06-01DOI: 10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147531
Reza Filsoof, A. Bodine, Bob Gill, S. Makonin, Robert Nicholson
Real-time measurements and display of vitals are integral part of patients health monitoring with limited resources. Wireless sensor networks that communicate in a mesh acquire and transmit such critical parameters, making a medical environment efficient. With limited resources, both equipment and medical staff, the system must be reliable, and capable of dynamic updating on patient status. System must be able to sustain at least single contingency. We designed a signal conditioning circuit and firmware that converts finger pulse into beats per minute (BPM), which is then displayed on a remote station dynamically via ZigBee. Testing was performed to measure the reliability of transmitting data over a wide range of distances through high traffic areas (both human and Wi-Fi). We show that such systems can provided enhanced reliability in a limited resourced environment and have the potential to be deployed in disaster recovery situations.
{"title":"Transmitting patient vitals over a reliable ZigBee mesh network","authors":"Reza Filsoof, A. Bodine, Bob Gill, S. Makonin, Robert Nicholson","doi":"10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147531","url":null,"abstract":"Real-time measurements and display of vitals are integral part of patients health monitoring with limited resources. Wireless sensor networks that communicate in a mesh acquire and transmit such critical parameters, making a medical environment efficient. With limited resources, both equipment and medical staff, the system must be reliable, and capable of dynamic updating on patient status. System must be able to sustain at least single contingency. We designed a signal conditioning circuit and firmware that converts finger pulse into beats per minute (BPM), which is then displayed on a remote station dynamically via ZigBee. Testing was performed to measure the reliability of transmitting data over a wide range of distances through high traffic areas (both human and Wi-Fi). We show that such systems can provided enhanced reliability in a limited resourced environment and have the potential to be deployed in disaster recovery situations.","PeriodicalId":341818,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Canada International Humanitarian Technology Conference - (IHTC)","volume":"155 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115262317","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}
Pub Date : 2014-06-01DOI: 10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147522
Aditya Khandelwal, V. Dileep, S. Chandar
One of the major problems in present day agriculture is low productivity. To improve the output of the field, it is of utmost importance that the farmer not only has the items required but also the knowledge to implement them effectively. A viable solution is the FAST (Farm Ambience Sensing Tool) - a multi-sensor tool which detects the conditions of the agricultural area and notifies the farmer.
{"title":"Augmentation of agricultural output using Farm Ambience Sensing Tool (FAST)","authors":"Aditya Khandelwal, V. Dileep, S. Chandar","doi":"10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147522","url":null,"abstract":"One of the major problems in present day agriculture is low productivity. To improve the output of the field, it is of utmost importance that the farmer not only has the items required but also the knowledge to implement them effectively. A viable solution is the FAST (Farm Ambience Sensing Tool) - a multi-sensor tool which detects the conditions of the agricultural area and notifies the farmer.","PeriodicalId":341818,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Canada International Humanitarian Technology Conference - (IHTC)","volume":"545 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116506740","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}
Pub Date : 2014-06-01DOI: 10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147532
C. Rasmussen, R. Dara
Preserving individuals' integrity in the digital world is expected to be one of the major challenges of our society. This is due to the fact that the online service providers are increasingly collecting more and more personal information. In this study, we propose a privacy recommender system to help users make more appropriate decisions with regards to their privacy. Our recommender tool uses an ontology engine for parsing and comprehension of privacy policy statements, privacy settings, and user needs that are provided either directly by the user or from users' past behaviors. The output of the system is a set of recommendations and warnings generated based on the users' privacy preferences. We present some results of the usage of our recommender system in social networking applications such as Facebook. This privacy recommender system will provide users with a greater control of their personal data.
{"title":"Empowering users through privacy management recommender systems","authors":"C. Rasmussen, R. Dara","doi":"10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147532","url":null,"abstract":"Preserving individuals' integrity in the digital world is expected to be one of the major challenges of our society. This is due to the fact that the online service providers are increasingly collecting more and more personal information. In this study, we propose a privacy recommender system to help users make more appropriate decisions with regards to their privacy. Our recommender tool uses an ontology engine for parsing and comprehension of privacy policy statements, privacy settings, and user needs that are provided either directly by the user or from users' past behaviors. The output of the system is a set of recommendations and warnings generated based on the users' privacy preferences. We present some results of the usage of our recommender system in social networking applications such as Facebook. This privacy recommender system will provide users with a greater control of their personal data.","PeriodicalId":341818,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Canada International Humanitarian Technology Conference - (IHTC)","volume":"320 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115918170","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}
Pub Date : 2014-06-01DOI: 10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147545
Randy Herrmann
The Engineering Access Program at the University of Manitoba has been in existence since 1985. It started with the mandate to improve the recruitment and retention of Manitoba First Nation/Metis/Inuit people in the Faculty of Engineering by introducing a selection of supports to them. In order to improve the recruitment of First Nation/Metis/Inuit people into the Faculty of Engineering the prerequisite courses necessary for them to enter engineering have been waived while keeping the requirements to obtain a degree the same. First Nation/Metis/Inuit students that do not have the prerequisites to enter the engineering faculty are required to successfully complete upgrading (or preparatory) courses in mathematics, physics, computer programming and chemistry. In addition to the upgrading courses First Nation/Metis/Inuit student supports are comprised primarily of academic support, social support, financial aid, and personal support. First Nation/Metis/Inuit students entering the Engineering Access Program must also attend a mandatory summer orientation aimed at preparing them for University studies. The Engineering Access Program boasts 95 graduates of First Nation/Metis/Inuit descent that work throughout the western provinces in various areas.
{"title":"The Engineering Access Program for Indigenous (First Nation/Metis/Inuit) students","authors":"Randy Herrmann","doi":"10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147545","url":null,"abstract":"The Engineering Access Program at the University of Manitoba has been in existence since 1985. It started with the mandate to improve the recruitment and retention of Manitoba First Nation/Metis/Inuit people in the Faculty of Engineering by introducing a selection of supports to them. In order to improve the recruitment of First Nation/Metis/Inuit people into the Faculty of Engineering the prerequisite courses necessary for them to enter engineering have been waived while keeping the requirements to obtain a degree the same. First Nation/Metis/Inuit students that do not have the prerequisites to enter the engineering faculty are required to successfully complete upgrading (or preparatory) courses in mathematics, physics, computer programming and chemistry. In addition to the upgrading courses First Nation/Metis/Inuit student supports are comprised primarily of academic support, social support, financial aid, and personal support. First Nation/Metis/Inuit students entering the Engineering Access Program must also attend a mandatory summer orientation aimed at preparing them for University studies. The Engineering Access Program boasts 95 graduates of First Nation/Metis/Inuit descent that work throughout the western provinces in various areas.","PeriodicalId":341818,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Canada International Humanitarian Technology Conference - (IHTC)","volume":"152 7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131227472","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}
Pub Date : 2014-06-01DOI: 10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147539
Thelma Virgínia Rodrigues, Elcie Helena Costa Rodrigues, Silvana Patricia de Vasconcelos, Plinio Soares Paolinelli Maciel
This paper presents the work of Maria Teixeira School-MTS as a pedagogical methodology of social and educational inclusion, and making a historical review of its trajectory. MTS is a non-profit institution located in the countryside of Luziânia city, (Brazil), promoting 1st phase of elementary school and youth and adult education. In 2013, offered free and quality educational service for 208 students, among children, teenagers and adults from low-income families in the common and special, under the educational inclusion. About 60 students have some type of disabilities, such as: Down syndrome, autism, mental, physical, auditory deficiencies. The proposal is based on constructivism and educational, technological and social inclusion. Founded in 1994, MTS has worked since its origin with the “pedagogy of respect for differences”, understanding difference as richness. Stimulates the development of efficiencies instead of highlighting the deficiencies. Luziânia is considered the 16th most violent city in Brazil, with few opportunities for young people at social risk. MTS adopts the Brazilian Sign Language as a discipline. Everyone learns LIBRAS, not just the deaf students. In addition, LIBRAS is used as an alternative communication to listeners students with difficulty speech, with great results. MTS has an ecological action with recycled material, promoting sustainable productive chain, avoiding waste, generating income with craft workshops from the transformed objects sale. MTS presented their demands to the group of engineers involved in humanitarian technology, being an NGO-partner of the IEEE-SIGHT-PUCMinas because of the need for accessible and assistive technologies appropriate technologies and innovative teaching methodology.
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Pub Date : 2014-06-01DOI: 10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147520
Halima Aminu, S. Rahaman
Today, Internet Technology is no longer a barrier; on the contrary it has become a necessity of a society across the globe. The rise of Internet has facilitated the emergence of the `e' word referred to as electronic which today is applied to every walk of life such as commerce, communication, healthcare, learning to name a few. Modern achievements in the field of computing and communication technologies has offered tremendous opportunities for learning by electronic means popularly referred to as e-learning. The use of new multimedia technologies and the Internet in learning is seen as a means to improve accessibility, efficiency and quality of learning by facilitating access to resources and services as well as remote exchange and collaboration. These new technologies allow more flexibility in learning and a wider reach for education. e-learning continues to grow over the years, in 2012, over 1.4 billion students and 62.5 million educators got involved in e-learning. However, adoption of e-learning is faced with challenges especially in the developing countries. This paper focuses on the aspect of e-learning in an education environment in Nigeria, analyzes and identifies the factors forming a barrier in its successful taking off within the region. These barriers are identified under four heads namely: Non Influencing Environment, Lack of State-of-the-art Facility, Financial Resistance and Community Mindset. The paper analyzes the factors identified and proposes a framework that will give a breakthrough for e-learning from the vicious technology cycle.
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Pub Date : 2014-06-01DOI: 10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147555
Mahmoud Kabalan, D. Tamir, Pritpal Singh
Micro-hydroelectric power has the promise of supplying clean renewable energy for remote communities at a cost-effective price. However, previous attempts of implementation suffered from a high failure rate and proved to be unsustainable. This paper presents a failure analysis of multiple micro hydroelectric sites that were built in the province of Ifugao, Philippines. The analysis was done by completing field trips to the failed sites and performing a technical examination of the neglected hydroelectric facilities. Moreover, interviews with multiple community members and officials were held to understand the social, culture and economic context of these systems. The interviews also focused on including female community members to get a gender neutral overview of the community. The study showed that multiple technical, economic and social factors can lead to the failure of the implementation of this technology. A relatively successful micro-hydroelectric system in the province is highlighted to provide a comparison with the other failed sites. The aim of the paper is to provide an insight on the best practices for the future development of micro-hydroelectric systems. The study showed that a sustainable micro-hydroelectric system should address the three pillars of sustainability - social, economic and technical.
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