Pub Date : 2014-12-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC-SAS.2014.6967572
T. Michelle, S. Jarzabek, Bimlesh Wadhwa
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is psychotherapy recommended for mental disorders such as Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) and depression. Wide base of evidence across different studies and clinical practices shows the effectiveness and safety of CBT as compared to other types of treatment. After a face-to-face session with therapists, patients would typically carry out Homework, a central concept to CBT. Patients fill in their worksheets or diaries using pen-and-paper forms between two consecutive face-face sessions with the therapist. Homework provides crucial information about patients to the therapist. In this paper, we discuss mobile support for the delivery of CBT interventions in general, and present an Android app called CBT Assistant that supports behavioral interventions for patients suffering from SAD. CBT Assistant, highly adaptable to the specific context of a given patient. is designed for both therapists and patients, CBT Assistant provides active support for end-to-end CBT protocol including identification of stress or situations that trigger mental problems, assessing their severity, recording and then analyzing the patient's inputs. We believe that CBT Assistant can improve the efficacy of the therapy, and makes the delivery of CBT less taxing for both the therapist and patient. CBT Assistant is designed with input from technologists and therapists. It will be evaluated first by healthy subjects and then by patients receiving CBT at the National University Hospital.
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Pub Date : 2014-12-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC-SAS.2014.6967551
Kedar M. Kulkarni, P. Mittal
Wind turbine placement in wind farms is a nontrivial optimization problem primarily due to aerodynamic wake interaction between turbines. Moreover, in reality, there could be other constraints related to farm topology, capacity factors etc. that can potentially make the problem more constrained and complex. Existing problem formulations typically solve for optimal turbine locations directly while assuming that the total number of turbines in the farm is known. However, wind farm developers often do not know the best number of turbines to be placed in a farm. This paper proposes a novel map-based heuristic search procedure to simultaneously identify the optimal total number of turbines to be placed in the farm along with their placement.
{"title":"A fast and effective algorithm to optimize the total number and placement of wind turbines","authors":"Kedar M. Kulkarni, P. Mittal","doi":"10.1109/GHTC-SAS.2014.6967551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC-SAS.2014.6967551","url":null,"abstract":"Wind turbine placement in wind farms is a nontrivial optimization problem primarily due to aerodynamic wake interaction between turbines. Moreover, in reality, there could be other constraints related to farm topology, capacity factors etc. that can potentially make the problem more constrained and complex. Existing problem formulations typically solve for optimal turbine locations directly while assuming that the total number of turbines in the farm is known. However, wind farm developers often do not know the best number of turbines to be placed in a farm. This paper proposes a novel map-based heuristic search procedure to simultaneously identify the optimal total number of turbines to be placed in the farm along with their placement.","PeriodicalId":437025,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference - South Asia Satellite (GHTC-SAS)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124640453","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 : 2014-12-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC-SAS.2014.6967588
A. Markandey, S. Moghe, Y. Bhute, S. Honale
Recently, it is observed that the maximum attention is paid towards the problem of the data hacking. For that, various numbers of techniques are available in the market, like the steganography. In this process, the data is embedded in the image and that image is transformed to the receiver. But there are some problems such as after data extraction the image quality is hampered due to some noise. The technique called as reversible data hiding (RDH) is used here to embed the data in the image. The existing systems use the technique of the “vacating the room after encryption” which is time consuming. So the technique in the proposed system is to allocate the memory before the encryption process. Also the cloud computing technology is included in this proposed system. Here the cloud server is providing the service to the client called as the Data Security. Also in the result image quality is improving with the PSNR = 60 dB and above.
{"title":"An image encryption mechanism for data security in clouds","authors":"A. Markandey, S. Moghe, Y. Bhute, S. Honale","doi":"10.1109/GHTC-SAS.2014.6967588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC-SAS.2014.6967588","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, it is observed that the maximum attention is paid towards the problem of the data hacking. For that, various numbers of techniques are available in the market, like the steganography. In this process, the data is embedded in the image and that image is transformed to the receiver. But there are some problems such as after data extraction the image quality is hampered due to some noise. The technique called as reversible data hiding (RDH) is used here to embed the data in the image. The existing systems use the technique of the “vacating the room after encryption” which is time consuming. So the technique in the proposed system is to allocate the memory before the encryption process. Also the cloud computing technology is included in this proposed system. Here the cloud server is providing the service to the client called as the Data Security. Also in the result image quality is improving with the PSNR = 60 dB and above.","PeriodicalId":437025,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference - South Asia Satellite (GHTC-SAS)","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123495170","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 : 2014-12-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC-SAS.2014.6967559
auer E. Sumpio, P. Blume, J. Beaty
Diabetes is a serious chronic disease that needs attention. Approximately 15% of all people with diabetes will be affected by a foot ulcer during their lifetime. Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) often co-exist with vascular insufficiency and are the major cause of gangrene and amputation in people with diabetes. Risk identification is fundamental for effective preventive management of the foot in people with diabetes. The risk of ulcers or amputations is increased in people who have had diabetes ≥10 years, are male, have poor glucose control, or have cardiovascular, retinal, or renal complications. it is generally agreed that non-mechanical factors such as peripheral neuropathy, dry skin, and/or vascular problems are often major contributing causes for skin ulceration. Therefore monitoring the subcutaneous tissue of foot for callus formation in a low-resource setting, and early prevention by identifying and relieving the "hot spot" pressure points in shoe insole is a necessity. People with diabetes must inspect their feet regularly, or have a family member or care provider do it on their behalf. Daily inspection is the foundation of diabetic foot ulcer prevention. Fortunately India has a good penetration of mobile phones, camera and now a days tab which can be an effective monitoring device and therefore we present a mobile/camera/tab based application for monitoring sole of the foot for calluses and detecting pressure “hot spots” in the shoe insole so that they can be relieved in a timely manner and they done the first level diagnosis and reduce the treatment cost and we used advanced gabour filter algorithm for effective result And also proposing, the educating the people about the diabetic foot ulcer by that we can reduce the foot ulcer problems.
{"title":"Analysis of foot sole image using image processing algorithms","authors":"auer E. Sumpio, P. Blume, J. Beaty","doi":"10.1109/GHTC-SAS.2014.6967559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC-SAS.2014.6967559","url":null,"abstract":"Diabetes is a serious chronic disease that needs attention. Approximately 15% of all people with diabetes will be affected by a foot ulcer during their lifetime. Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) often co-exist with vascular insufficiency and are the major cause of gangrene and amputation in people with diabetes. Risk identification is fundamental for effective preventive management of the foot in people with diabetes. The risk of ulcers or amputations is increased in people who have had diabetes ≥10 years, are male, have poor glucose control, or have cardiovascular, retinal, or renal complications. it is generally agreed that non-mechanical factors such as peripheral neuropathy, dry skin, and/or vascular problems are often major contributing causes for skin ulceration. Therefore monitoring the subcutaneous tissue of foot for callus formation in a low-resource setting, and early prevention by identifying and relieving the \"hot spot\" pressure points in shoe insole is a necessity. People with diabetes must inspect their feet regularly, or have a family member or care provider do it on their behalf. Daily inspection is the foundation of diabetic foot ulcer prevention. Fortunately India has a good penetration of mobile phones, camera and now a days tab which can be an effective monitoring device and therefore we present a mobile/camera/tab based application for monitoring sole of the foot for calluses and detecting pressure “hot spots” in the shoe insole so that they can be relieved in a timely manner and they done the first level diagnosis and reduce the treatment cost and we used advanced gabour filter algorithm for effective result And also proposing, the educating the people about the diabetic foot ulcer by that we can reduce the foot ulcer problems.","PeriodicalId":437025,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference - South Asia Satellite (GHTC-SAS)","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121723028","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 : 2014-12-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC-SAS.2014.6967575
S. A. Akash, Akshay Menon, Arpit Gupta, M. Wakeel, M. Praveen, P. Meena
Quadriplegia is a medical condition characterized by partial or complete paralysis of the four limbs and torso. Paraplegia is a variant of quadriplegia and is an impairment in motor or sensory function of the lower extremities. An automated wheelchair is a step taken with an intention to make a difference especially to the lives of these sections of people with restricted mobility. The different modes of control for the movement of the chair are made available in a modular form and can be incorporated by the user based on specific needs. Apart from the controls like joystick, chin control, voice activation, control through head movement, through calls made using a mobile, this chair can also be remotely controlled through the internet. Raspberry Pi is used as a master controller for both joystick as well as internet control. This paper specifically presents the details of control of the smart wheel chair through the internet using the technology of internet of things.
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Pub Date : 2014-12-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC-SAS.2014.6967568
V. AbhayMohanM., J. Pavithran, K. L. Osten, A. Jinumon, C. P. Mrinalini
The LED Solar Simulator is an equipment used to determine the characteristics of solar cells indoors by replicating the spectrum of sunlight with an LED light source. This paper presents an algorithm for simulating two important performance parameters of solar simulators, namely spectral match and spatial non-uniformity. It can be used to determine the uniformity of light falling on a plane kept below a light source at a particular distance. If the light source has a known spectrum, it can be used to find the distribution of the irradiance of the light source throughout the wavelength range of interest. Light source may be a single source or an array of sources. The required data for this algorithm is the light source intensity, number of sources, distance from the light source to the plane whose uniformity is to be calculated, viewing angle of the light source and the spectrum of the individual sources. The algorithm can also consider the effect of reflecting surfaces, if their position and average reflectance is given. From the resulting irradiance map of the test plane, the parameter spatial non-uniformity can be calculated, while from the spectral irradiance, the Spectral Match with the reference solar spectrum can be calculated.
{"title":"Simulation of spectral match and spatial non-uniformity for LED solar simulator","authors":"V. AbhayMohanM., J. Pavithran, K. L. Osten, A. Jinumon, C. P. Mrinalini","doi":"10.1109/GHTC-SAS.2014.6967568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC-SAS.2014.6967568","url":null,"abstract":"The LED Solar Simulator is an equipment used to determine the characteristics of solar cells indoors by replicating the spectrum of sunlight with an LED light source. This paper presents an algorithm for simulating two important performance parameters of solar simulators, namely spectral match and spatial non-uniformity. It can be used to determine the uniformity of light falling on a plane kept below a light source at a particular distance. If the light source has a known spectrum, it can be used to find the distribution of the irradiance of the light source throughout the wavelength range of interest. Light source may be a single source or an array of sources. The required data for this algorithm is the light source intensity, number of sources, distance from the light source to the plane whose uniformity is to be calculated, viewing angle of the light source and the spectrum of the individual sources. The algorithm can also consider the effect of reflecting surfaces, if their position and average reflectance is given. From the resulting irradiance map of the test plane, the parameter spatial non-uniformity can be calculated, while from the spectral irradiance, the Spectral Match with the reference solar spectrum can be calculated.","PeriodicalId":437025,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference - South Asia Satellite (GHTC-SAS)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126526401","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 : 2014-12-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC-SAS.2014.6967566
J. Lavanya, Sandipta Roy, Preeta Sharan
Water is the most essential element to life on Earth. Salinity is the relative concentration of salts in water. The quest to know Salinity of water is necessity, as salinity according to their respective geography may be vital or harmful. Currently determination of salt content is by chemical analysis. However, the method is time consuming and vague. In this paper a photonic crystal based optical sensor is proposed and designed to measure percentage of salinity present in the sample of water, where the optical sensor is a dielectric slab waveguide with water sample as the cladding, and photonic crystal based channel waveguide as core. The variation in salinity concentration changes the refractive index of water. The effective refractive index method has been used for the detection of the salinity concentration from (0-30%). The slab waveguide is designed and the effective refractive changed is captured. For a very small change in refractive index the effective index change is visible, making the sensor very sensitive.
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Over the past decade, we have witnessed a huge upsurge in social networking which continues to touch and transform our lives till present day. Social networks help us to communicate amongst our acquaintances and friends with whom we share similar interests on a common platform. Globally, there are more than 200 million visually impaired people. Visual impairment has many issues associated with it, but the one that stands out is the lack of accessibility to content for entertainment and socializing safely. This paper deals with the development of a keyboard less social networking website for visually impaired. The term keyboard less signifies minimum use of keyboard and allows the user to explore the contents of the website using assistive technologies like screen readers and speech to text (STT) conversion technologies which in turn provides a user friendly experience for the target audience. As soon as the user with minimal computer proficiency opens this website, with the help of screen reader, he/she identifies the username and password fields. The user speaks out his username and with the help of STT conversion (using Web Speech API), the username is entered. Then the control moves over to the password field and similarly, the password of the user is obtained and matched with the one saved in the website database. The concept of acoustic fingerprinting has been implemented for successfully validating the passwords of registered users and foiling intentions of malicious attackers. On successful match of the passwords, the user is able to enjoy the services of the website without any further hassle. Once the access obstacles associated to deal with social networking sites are successfully resolved and proper technologies are put to place, social networking sites can be a rewarding, fulfilling, and enjoyable experience for the visually impaired people.
{"title":"Development of a keyboardless social networking website for visually impaired: SocialWeb","authors":"Sumitro Ghatak, Avishikta Lodh, Enakshi Saha, Aakash Goyal, Aritra Das, Sourav Dutta","doi":"10.1109/GHTC-SAS.2014.6967589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC-SAS.2014.6967589","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past decade, we have witnessed a huge upsurge in social networking which continues to touch and transform our lives till present day. Social networks help us to communicate amongst our acquaintances and friends with whom we share similar interests on a common platform. Globally, there are more than 200 million visually impaired people. Visual impairment has many issues associated with it, but the one that stands out is the lack of accessibility to content for entertainment and socializing safely. This paper deals with the development of a keyboard less social networking website for visually impaired. The term keyboard less signifies minimum use of keyboard and allows the user to explore the contents of the website using assistive technologies like screen readers and speech to text (STT) conversion technologies which in turn provides a user friendly experience for the target audience. As soon as the user with minimal computer proficiency opens this website, with the help of screen reader, he/she identifies the username and password fields. The user speaks out his username and with the help of STT conversion (using Web Speech API), the username is entered. Then the control moves over to the password field and similarly, the password of the user is obtained and matched with the one saved in the website database. The concept of acoustic fingerprinting has been implemented for successfully validating the passwords of registered users and foiling intentions of malicious attackers. On successful match of the passwords, the user is able to enjoy the services of the website without any further hassle. Once the access obstacles associated to deal with social networking sites are successfully resolved and proper technologies are put to place, social networking sites can be a rewarding, fulfilling, and enjoyable experience for the visually impaired people.","PeriodicalId":437025,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference - South Asia Satellite (GHTC-SAS)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122882614","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 : 2014-12-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC-SAS.2014.6967574
G. Jain, Sarath Babu, R. Raj, Kyle E. Benson, B. S. Manoj, N. Venkatasubramanian
Information gathering during a disaster management has a crucial role in designing the disaster response mechanism. Several factors such as geography, infrastructure, and population influence the information gathering process. The task is particularly complex when disasters strike a shanty town. A shanty town terrain is characterized by its high population density, considerable level of under-development, and poor infrastructure. Mobile Data Collection agents (MDCs) can be assigned with the task of data collection in the aftermath of a disaster. In this paper, we study the difficulty of data gathering process using two movement models, Path Type Based Movement and Path Memory Based Movement in combination with data hand-off strategies No Hand-off, Superior-Only Hand-off and Superior-Peer Hand-off. We use the metrics such as percentage data collected, percentage way coverage, and the number of inter-MDC meetings for analyzing the performance of MDCs in the data gathering process. The low values of data collected and way coverage show the difficulty in obtaining disaster-data from a complex shanty town terrain.
{"title":"On disaster information gathering in a complex shanty town terrain","authors":"G. Jain, Sarath Babu, R. Raj, Kyle E. Benson, B. S. Manoj, N. Venkatasubramanian","doi":"10.1109/GHTC-SAS.2014.6967574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC-SAS.2014.6967574","url":null,"abstract":"Information gathering during a disaster management has a crucial role in designing the disaster response mechanism. Several factors such as geography, infrastructure, and population influence the information gathering process. The task is particularly complex when disasters strike a shanty town. A shanty town terrain is characterized by its high population density, considerable level of under-development, and poor infrastructure. Mobile Data Collection agents (MDCs) can be assigned with the task of data collection in the aftermath of a disaster. In this paper, we study the difficulty of data gathering process using two movement models, Path Type Based Movement and Path Memory Based Movement in combination with data hand-off strategies No Hand-off, Superior-Only Hand-off and Superior-Peer Hand-off. We use the metrics such as percentage data collected, percentage way coverage, and the number of inter-MDC meetings for analyzing the performance of MDCs in the data gathering process. The low values of data collected and way coverage show the difficulty in obtaining disaster-data from a complex shanty town terrain.","PeriodicalId":437025,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference - South Asia Satellite (GHTC-SAS)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127928416","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 : 2014-12-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC-SAS.2014.6967582
K. P. Dipin, Joy Bose, V. Vivek
Unemployment, especially among the youth, is a pressing issue in many rural areas. This paper proposes a model of local employment generation in rural or underdeveloped areas, which often do not have an adequate infrastructure (including wireless connectivity and uninterrupted electricity supply) to enable them to take advantage of technology. We assume that most people in such areas already possess and can make use of a basic mobile phone with facilities to call and text. Our model uses a kiosk based architecture (similar to ITC's e-Chaupal), with a subscription based model of services to standalone clients. The kiosks are equipped with net connectivity and enable the services to the mobile phones of the clients, with each kiosk serving up to 500 rural users. Users looking for work update their employable skills at the system, while users needing jobs done post the details. The system connects the skills with the places where needed, and includes the facilities to rank employment seeking users with their suitability for the job in real time. Such a model is feasible to run with optimal costs, and can play a good role in stimulating local employment and ultimately the local economy.
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