Pub Date : 2018-10-01DOI: 10.1109/ghtc.2018.8601901
L. Tee
A mobile health platform is proposed as an integrated solution for managing health remotely, using mobile devices. It is based on human-centered design, with the patient at the center, while taking into account the various users of the solution, who have the shared goal of managing the patient's health. These users could be the immediate family, trusted friends, neighbors, community health workers and/or professional care team.
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Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2016.7857372
Samantha Huselstein, S. J. Weinstein, R. Stevens
We explore a novel drying system to preserve tropical fruits, motivated by the needs of a rural farming co-op in Haiti. Most solar drying technologies rely on glazed collectors, but these are not readily accessible in rural communities. A low cost and low maintenance prototype drying system is designed, built and tested. The system comprises a transpired solar absorber made from cheap landscape fabric, a drying chamber, and a chimney. The drying chamber houses the fruit and the chimney induces airflow. In tests on thinly sliced bananas, the novel collector efficiency regularly exceeds 50% with an average temperature rise from inlet to outlet of the device of over 20°C. In one test, 4kg of banana slices per square meter of absorber area are dried from an average moisture content of 73wt% to 8wt% over two days. A preliminary mathematical model for the entire drying system is developed that agrees favorably with experiments.
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Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2016.7857379
Yongwei Xu, R. Shibasaki, Xiaowei Shao
People flow dynamics from the basis of various applications such as traffic flow analysis, surveillance, business building security, and crowd motion prediction. With the development of sensing technology, diverse sensors have accumulated sufficient data for a proper understanding of pedestrian movement. As the amount of data increases, the automatic acquisition of crowd behavior and walking information has become more imperative. However, despite large developments in sensing technology, detecting and tracking pedestrians over a relatively large area is costly and high-maintenance. In contrast to traditional individual-based analysis, we consider the movement of pedestrians as a whole entity by incorporating dynamic continuum flow theory and demonstrating how it is applied in our kernel-function-based model of people flow density. In order to reconstruct people flow in areas that are partially invisible to sensors, we assess data assimilation methods to predict the whole areas people flow. The experiments which involve 1D/2D simulation and real tracking data demonstrate the validity of our proposed method. Experimental results of real tracking data show that the estimated density in the invisible area is acceptably close to the true value.
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Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2016.7857373
Seung-Hyun Cho, R. Chartier, K. Mortimer, M. Dherani, Terence Tafatatha
Household air pollution (HAP) emitted from solid fuel combustion for cooking and heating is responsible for 4.3 million premature deaths annually. Those most affected include women and young children in resource-limited countries. The current standard practice for reducing HAP exposure is to replace traditional cookstoves with more efficient improved stoves. However, the relationship between exposure reduction and potential health benefits has been quantified at limited levels. Accurate personal exposure data have not been available from conventional monitoring technologies, burdensome for both study participants and researchers. The RTI MicroPEM™, a low-burden particulate matter (PM) personal exposure monitor, was used by local researchers to assess HAP exposures of 6 and 26 week old children in 319 rural Malawian households. The MicroPEM collects both real-time and gold-standard integrated filter PM data. The on-board accelerometer informs participant compliance to the study protocol that the mother moves the monitor with the child throughout the 48-hour measurement period and wears it while carrying the child. Valid data were collected in 92% of homes, and the MicroPEM was moved or worn during 45% of waking hours. More than 80% of the participants were exposed to the PM levels greater than the WHO guideline during at least a half of the 48-hour monitoring period. Parallel personal and indoor kitchen samples at 15 households showed 13 times higher PM levels indoors. These early data indicate the MicroPEM allows local researchers to collect high quality personal exposure data for very young and the most at-risk children.
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Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2016.7857378
M. Sakai, M. Sugano
In recent years, the importance of tracking system for children or elderly people is increasing by reduction of a household number of persons, and dilution of the human relations in a community. We aim at developing a tracking system which can be used by small children or dementia patients easily, and pro-pose a human tracking system embedded in stuffed animal which can tweet the location information and picture. This system consists of a Raspberry Pi, camera, two switches, GPS module, battery, speaker, 3G modem, and Wi-Fi adapter. By pushing each switch, a user can take a photo, or obtain location information by GPS module, and tweet them. In addition, this system can also tweet these pieces of information periodically. Since this system can be operated easily, it is realizable to track the small children who cannot operate a smart phone, and dementia patients. Furthermore, since control by the tweeted command can also be performed, a guardian who is present in a remote place can obtain a location and a picture in real time via twitter. We expect that children and elderly people always carries it by holding affection in the stuffed animal itself.
{"title":"Human tracking system embedded in stuffed animal","authors":"M. Sakai, M. Sugano","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2016.7857378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2016.7857378","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, the importance of tracking system for children or elderly people is increasing by reduction of a household number of persons, and dilution of the human relations in a community. We aim at developing a tracking system which can be used by small children or dementia patients easily, and pro-pose a human tracking system embedded in stuffed animal which can tweet the location information and picture. This system consists of a Raspberry Pi, camera, two switches, GPS module, battery, speaker, 3G modem, and Wi-Fi adapter. By pushing each switch, a user can take a photo, or obtain location information by GPS module, and tweet them. In addition, this system can also tweet these pieces of information periodically. Since this system can be operated easily, it is realizable to track the small children who cannot operate a smart phone, and dementia patients. Furthermore, since control by the tweeted command can also be performed, a guardian who is present in a remote place can obtain a location and a picture in real time via twitter. We expect that children and elderly people always carries it by holding affection in the stuffed animal itself.","PeriodicalId":74562,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference","volume":"106 1","pages":"842-844"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79257891","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 : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2016.7857332
Thiago Matheus Martins de Moraes, Lucas de Paula Santos Petri
One of the biggest problems faced by the Brazilian population is high crime rates and current public policies are ineffective to ensure public safety. Given the reduction in crimes committed at bus stops and maximum energetic efficiency since Brazil is going through the greatest energy crisis of the last 15 years, it was created and designed a way to, simultaneously, reduce crime rates and save energy by creating a sustainable lighting system at bus stops that depends exclusively on solar energy. That system can be easily deployed at any public place with simple engineering concepts and with no costs to keep it running.
{"title":"Reducing criminality and saving energy","authors":"Thiago Matheus Martins de Moraes, Lucas de Paula Santos Petri","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2016.7857332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2016.7857332","url":null,"abstract":"One of the biggest problems faced by the Brazilian population is high crime rates and current public policies are ineffective to ensure public safety. Given the reduction in crimes committed at bus stops and maximum energetic efficiency since Brazil is going through the greatest energy crisis of the last 15 years, it was created and designed a way to, simultaneously, reduce crime rates and save energy by creating a sustainable lighting system at bus stops that depends exclusively on solar energy. That system can be easily deployed at any public place with simple engineering concepts and with no costs to keep it running.","PeriodicalId":74562,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference","volume":"176 2 1","pages":"538-541"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78146394","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 : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2015.7343984
M. Zaoui, F. Viguier, P. Blazevic
{"title":"Mobile robotics for restoring degraded ecosystems","authors":"M. Zaoui, F. Viguier, P. Blazevic","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2015.7343984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2015.7343984","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74562,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference","volume":"22 1","pages":"273-278"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78058874","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 : 2013-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713697
Theo Economides
The state of the art in educational technology creates a customized, personalized, “have it your way” kind of educational experience that is both powerful and massively scalable. The proliferation of high-bandwidth Internet access plus web-based and video technologies combine in a way to give an unprecedented flexibility that reaches learners of all styles while, at the same time, allowing the instructor to be more effective.
{"title":"The state of the art in educational technology","authors":"Theo Economides","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713697","url":null,"abstract":"The state of the art in educational technology creates a customized, personalized, “have it your way” kind of educational experience that is both powerful and massively scalable. The proliferation of high-bandwidth Internet access plus web-based and video technologies combine in a way to give an unprecedented flexibility that reaches learners of all styles while, at the same time, allowing the instructor to be more effective.","PeriodicalId":74562,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference","volume":"239 1","pages":"285-287"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89035871","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}
Even the most affordable renewable energy installation still needs an investment that is significant for local people, so that a co-financing party is often indispensable. This article investigates through field research in Tanzania and a technology survey, whether technology could be able to support such investment schemes. It would secure reimbursements in the same flexible and secure way people now pay for mobile communication services, thereby applying the success factors of mobile communications in Africa to micro renewable electric energy systems. Further areas for investigation are identified.
{"title":"Flexicurity for Investment Reimbursement of Micro Renewable Electric Energy Systems","authors":"Bernard van Acker, Cédric Van Acker, V. V. Acker","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2012.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2012.32","url":null,"abstract":"Even the most affordable renewable energy installation still needs an investment that is significant for local people, so that a co-financing party is often indispensable. This article investigates through field research in Tanzania and a technology survey, whether technology could be able to support such investment schemes. It would secure reimbursements in the same flexible and secure way people now pay for mobile communication services, thereby applying the success factors of mobile communications in Africa to micro renewable electric energy systems. Further areas for investigation are identified.","PeriodicalId":74562,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference","volume":"23 1","pages":"149-154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74292753","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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