Information provision improvement with a geofencing event-bases system

Nowadays there is a big percentage of the population, specially young users, which are smartphone users and there is a lot of information to be provided within the applications, information provision should be done carefully and should be accurate, otherwise an overload of information will be produced, and the user will discard the app which is providing the information. Mobile devices are becoming smarter and provide many ways to filter information. However, there are alternatives to improve information provision from the side of the application. Some examples are, taking into account the local time, considering the battery level before doing an action and checking the user location to send personalized information attached to that location. SmartCampus and SmartCities are becoming a reality and they have more and more data integrated every day. With all this amount of data it is crucial to decide when and where is the user going to receive a notification with new information. Geofencing is a technique which allows applications to deliver information in a more useful way, in the right time and in the right place. It consists of geofences, physical regions delimited by boundaries, and devices that are eligible to receive the information assigned to the geofence. When devices cross one of these geofences an alert is pushed to the mobile device with the information.

Benefits & drawbacks of different means of interaction for placing objects above a video footage

Public Display Systems (PDS) increasingly have a greater presence in our cities. These systems provide information and advertising specifically tailored to audiences in spaces such as airports, train stations, and shopping centers. A large number of public displays are also being deployed for entertainment reasons. Sometimes designing and prototyping PDS come to be a laborious, complex and a costly task. This dissertation focuses on the design and evaluation of PDS at early development phases with the aim of facilitating low-effort, rapid design and the evaluation of interactive PDS. This study focuses on the IPED Toolkit. This tool proposes the design, prototype, and evaluation of public display systems, replicating real-world scenes in the lab. This research aims at identifying benefits and drawbacks on the use of different means to place overlays/virtual displays above a panoramic video footage, recorded at real-world locations. The means of interaction studied in this work are on the one hand the keyboard and mouse, and on the other hand the tablet with two different techniques of use. To carry out this study, an android application has been developed whose function is to allow users to interact with the IPED Toolkit using the tablet. Additionally, the toolkit has been modified and adapted to tablets by using different web technologies. Finally the users study makes a comparison about the different means of interaction.

Jogos S��rios para a Sa��de

Alguns jogos t��m como objectivo a competi����o, outros a aprendizagem, uns jogam-se em grupo, outros individualmente. No entanto, todos t��m um factor comum, ou seja, a experi��ncia que se retira do momento �� ��nica. Seja esta experi��ncia positiva ou negativa vai servir de aprendizagem nem que seja apenas das regras e mec��nicas do dispositivo. Os Serious Games simulam situa����es ou processos do mundo real que s��o elaborados com o prop��sito de resolver um problema. Muitas vezes estes sacrificam o divertimento e o entretenimento com o objectivo de alcan��ar um tipo de progresso desejado para o jogador. Tal como no passado, e tendo em conta o desenvolvimento exponencial da tecnologia, os Serious Games podem agora ter um papel fundamental no desenvolvimento de novas terapias e ferramentas de sa��de. �� precisamente a olhar para o presente, e com os olhos no futuro dos Serious Games aplicados �� sa��de, que foi desenvolvida esta investiga����o. Como complemento, �� tamb��m apresentado o projecto Typlife. Destinado a jovens com diabetes, �� um projecto acad��mico que tem como objectivo o desenvolvimento de uma aplica����o para smartphone para o controlo da diabetes, enquanto envolve o utilizador numa experi��ncia interactiva de recompensas pelas boas pr��ticas no dia-a-dia.

Can location-based mobile marketing enhance the customer experience and increase customer satisfaction and loyalty?

This study intends to explore the impact of customer experience on customer satisfaction and loyalty by trying to understand how location-based mobile marketing might enhance the customer experience. Primary data was collected from 201 smartphone users in 24 countries. Results have indicated that targeted location-based marketing positively influences customers��� experiences. Besides, the analysis has also shown a favorable impact on customers��� satisfaction and self-perceived loyalty. This suggests that location-based mobile marketing has the potential to positively add value to a customer���s experience and should therefore be considered an important tool in marketing communications.

Paradox of choice: The influence of assortment size on customer satisfaction

Recently researchers showed that more choice is not always better. Choosing from large assortments can be overwhelming, raising expectations and decreasing overall level of consumer satisfaction. Author contributes to existing overchoice studies by using real assortment of online stores to find influence of assortment size on customer satisfaction. 90 students participated in the main experiment, where they chose a smartphone case for their friend. Results of the study show that large assortment size leads to higher expectations, higher choice difficulty and higher level of satisfaction. This research does not show overchoice presence and author suggests future studies could focus more on assortment variety and more personal characteristics of consumers, like preference uncertainty.

A business plan for a new mobile application to the consumer foodservice industry

The Portuguese consumer foodservice industry is experiencing a boost in technology adoption, driven by significant changes in consumer behavior and business dynamics, due to mobile increasing penetration. Accordingly, the present work project consists on developing a business plan for meeting an identified opportunity in the technological foodservice landscape. Therefore, this report is divided into three sections, each of which addressing different objectives: (A) External Environment, providing key external insights that support the opportunity; (B) Strategy Formulation, establishing a strategic direction; and (C) Action Plan, determining an implementation plan for starting the business

O ��mbito de aplica����o material da legisla����o de prote����o de dados pessoais e o tratamento de imagem por pessoa singular

Images have gained a never before seen importance. Technological changes have given the Information Society extraordinary means to capture, treat and transmit images, wheter your own or those of others, with or without a commercial purpose, with no boundaries of time or country, without ���any kind of eraser���. From the several different ways natural persons may engage in image processing with no commercial purpose, the cases of sharing pictures through social networks and video surveillance assume particular relevance. Consequently there are growing legitimate concerns with the protection of one's image, since its processing may sometimes generate situations of privacy invasion or put at risk other fundamental rights. With this in mind, the present thesis arises from the question: what are the existent legal instruments in Portuguese Law that enable citizens to protect themselves from the abusive usage of their own pictures, whether because that image have been captured by a smartphone or some video surveillance camera, whether because it was massively shared through a blog or some social network? There is no question the one's right to not having his or her image used in an abusive way is protected by the Portuguese constitution, through the article 26th CRP, as well as personally right, under the article 79th of the Civil Code, and finally through criminal law, articles 192nd and 193rd of the Criminal Code. The question arises in the personal data protection context, considering that one's picture, given certain conditions, is personal data. Both the Directive 95/46/CE dated from 1995 as well as the LPD from 1998 are applicable to the processing of personal data, but both exclude situations of natural persons doing so in the pursuit of activities strictly personal or family-related. These laws demand complex procedures to natural persons, such as the preemptive formal authorisation request to the Data Protection National Commission. Failing to do so a natural person may result in the application of fines as high as ���2.500,00 or even criminal charges. Consequently, the present thesis aims to study if the image processing with no commercial purposes by a natural person in the context of social networks or through video surveillance belongs to the domain of the existent personal data protection law. To that effect, it was made general considerations regarding the concept of video surveillance, what is its regimen, in a way that it may be distinguishable from Steve Mann's definition of sousveillance, and what are the associated obligations in order to better understand the concept's essence. The application of the existent laws on personal data protection to images processing by natural persons has been analysed taking into account the Directive 95/46/CE, the LPD and the General Regulation. From this analysis it is concluded that the regimen from 1995 to 1998 is out of touch with reality creating an absence of legal shielding in the personal data protection law, a flaw that doesn't exist because compensated by the right to image as a right to personality, that anyway reveals the inability of the Portuguese legislator to face the new technological challenges. It is urgent to legislate. A contrary interpretation will evidence the unconstitutionality of several rules on the LPD due to the obligations natural persons are bound to that violate the right to the freedom of speech and information, which would be inadequate and disproportionate. Considering the recently approved General Regulation and in the case it becomes the final version, the use for natural person of video surveillance of private spaces, Google Glass (in public and private places) and other similar gadgets used to recreational purposes, as well as social networks are subject to its regulation only if the images are shared without limits or existing commercial purposes. Video surveillance of public spaces in all situations is subject to General Regulation provisions.

Evaluation of Machine Learning Classifiers for Mobile Network Intrusion Detection Systems

Mobile malwares are increasing with the growing number of Mobile users. Mobile malwares can perform several operations which lead to cybersecurity threats such as, stealing financial or personal information, installing malicious applications, sending premium SMS, creating backdoors, keylogging and crypto-ransomware attacks. Knowing the fact that there are many illegitimate Applications available on the App stores, most of the mobile users remain careless about the security of their Mobile devices and become the potential victim of these threats. Previous studies have shown that not every antivirus is capable of detecting all the threats; due to the fact that Mobile malwares use advance techniques to avoid detection. A Network-based IDS at the operator side will bring an extra layer of security to the subscribers and can detect many advanced threats by analyzing their traffic patterns. Machine Learning(ML) will provide the ability to these systems to detect unknown threats for which signatures are not yet known. This research is focused on the evaluation of Machine Learning classifiers in Network-based Intrusion detection systems for Mobile Networks. In this study, different techniques of Network-based intrusion detection with their advantages, disadvantages and state of the art in Hybrid solutions are discussed. Finally, a ML based NIDS is proposed which will work as a subsystem, to Network-based IDS deployed by Mobile Operators, that can help in detecting unknown threats and reducing false positives. In this research, several ML classifiers were implemented and evaluated. This study is focused on Android-based malwares, as Android is the most popular OS among users, hence most targeted by cyber criminals. Supervised ML algorithms based classifiers were built using the dataset which contained the labeled instances of relevant features. These features were extracted from the traffic generated by samples of several malware families and benign applications. These classifiers were able to detect malicious traffic patterns with the TPR upto 99.6% during Cross-validation test. Also, several experiments were conducted to detect unknown malware traffic and to detect false positives. These classifiers were able to detect unknown threats with the Accuracy of 97.5%. These classifiers could be integrated with current NIDS', which use signatures, statistical or knowledge-based techniques to detect malicious traffic. Technique to integrate the output from ML classifier with traditional NIDS is discussed and proposed for future work.

Analyse de la variation inter-populationnelle du canal obst��trique au sein de trois populations g��n��tiquement diff��rentes

La dystocie repr��sente une des causes principales de la mortalit�� maternelle et f��tale lors de l���accouchement. Une relation trop ��troite entre les dimensions maternelles et f��tales r��sultent souvent en une c��sarienne d���urgence. Les manuels obst��tricaux actuels proposent qu���une forme gyno��de de la cavit�� obst��tricale est normale car elle favorise une descente f��tale sans difficult�� lors de la parturition parce qu���elle est arrondie. Ce m��moire de ma��trise porte sur l�����tude de la variation inter-populationnelle de la forme du canal obst��trique chez trois populations g��n��tiquement diff��rentes pour tester si ces populations ont toutes une forme gyno��de ou si elles sont variables morphologiquement. Les cavit��s pelviennes analys��es sont constitu��es de 59 bassins d���Am��ricaines d���origine europ��enne, 74 bassins d���Am��ricaines d���origine africaine et 19 bassins de Sadlermiuts. Vingt points anatomiques sur la cavit�� pelvienne ont ��t�� digitalis��s �� partir du bassin articul�� pour permettre une visualisation tridimensionnelle de la forme du canal obst��trique. Une analyse Procrustes suivie d���une analyse en composantes principales ont ��t�� faites pour faire ressortir les composantes qui permettent de faire des distinctions entre les trois populations. L���existence d���une relation d���une part entre la taille et/ou la masse et d���autre part la morphologie du canal obst��trique a aussi ��t�� explor��e. R��sultats : La morphologie qui d��crit les Sadlermiuts est la forme platypello��de, soit un diam��tre m��dio-lat��ral plus grand que le diam��tre ant��ro-post��rieur, et ce �� tous les d��troits. Les Am��ricaines africaines pr��sentent une morphologie qui tend vers une forme gyno��de aux d��troits sup��rieur et moyen, et les Am��ricaines europ��ennes d��montrent une morphologie interm��diaire entre les formes gyno��de et andro��de au d��troit sup��rieur. Seule la taille du bassin (taille centro��de) est corr��l��e �� des changements de la forme du canal obst��trique pour les d��troits sup��rieur et moyen. Discussion: La forme gyno��de n���est pas repr��sentative de la cavit�� obst��tricale chez les trois populations. Il est possible que la forme platypello��de des Sadlermiuts soit une cons��quence de comportements induisant des changements morphologiques lors du d��veloppement squelettique. D���autres ��tudes sont requises pour ��valuer cette hypoth��se.

Kontextbasiertes System zur Vermeidung von Kollisionen zwischen Autos und Fu��g��ngern

Laut dem Statistischen Bundesamts ist die Zahl der im Stra��enverkehr get��teten Personen zwar r��ckl��ufig, jedoch wurden in 2010 in Deutschland noch immer 3648 Personen bei Unf��llen im Stra��enverkehr get��tet, 476 davon waren Fu��g��nger. In den letzten Dekaden lag der Schwerpunkt der Forschungsarbeiten zur Reduzierung der Verkehrstoten besonders im Bereich des Insassenschutzes. Erst in den letzten Jahren r��ckte die Thematik des Fu��g��ngerschutzes mehr in den Fokus des ��ffentlichen Interesses und der Automobilhersteller. Forschungsarbeiten besch��ftigen sich mit unterschiedlichen Ans��tzen die Folgen einer Kollision zwischen einem Auto und einem Fu��g��nger zu reduzieren. Hierzu z��hlen z.B. weiche Aufprallzonen im Frontbereich eines Autos, aufstellende Motorhaube oder auch Fu��g��ngerairbags im Bereich der Frontscheibe. Da passive Ans��tze aber nur die Folgen eines Aufpralls am Fahrzeug, nicht aber die Folgen eines Sekund��raufpralls auf dem Boden verringern k��nnen, werden parallel Ans��tze zur aktiven Kollisionsvermeidung untersucht. Die bisher verfolgten, ebenso wertvollen Ans��tze, zeigen jedoch jeweils Schwachpunkte in Ihrer L��sung. So ist der Einsatz der bisherigen bordautonomen Ans��tze auf Grund der Anforderungen der verschiedenen Systeme, wie der Notwendigkeit einer direkten, ungest��rten Sichtverbindung zwischen Auto und Fu��g��nger, leider nur eingeschr��nkt m��glich. Kooperative Systeme, die ein zus��tzliches, vom Fu��g��nger mitzuf��hrendes Sende-Empf��nger Ger��t zur Ermittlung der Fu��g��ngerposition ben��tigen sind hingegen mit zus��tzlichem Aufwand f��r den Fu��g��nger verbunden. Auch fehlen den bisher verfolgten Ans��tzen Informationen ��ber den Fu��g��nger, wodurch es schwierig ist, wenn nicht gar manchmal unm��glich, eine Situation korrekt bewerten zu k��nnen. Auch sehen diese Systeme keine Warnung des Fu��g��ngers vor. In dieser Arbeit wird ein Verfahren zum Fu��g��ngerschutz betrachtet, welches per Funk ausgetauschte Informationen zur Risikobewertung eines Szenarios nutzt. Hierbei werden neben den vom Auto bekannten Informationen und Parameter, die vom Smartphone des Fu��g��ngers zur Verf��gung gestellten Kontextinformationen verwendet. Es werden zum einen die Parameter, Bedingungen und Anforderungen analysiert und die Architektur des Systems betrachtet. Ferner wird das Ergbnis einer Untersuchung zur generellen Umsetzbarkeit mit bereits heute in Smartphone verf��gbaren Funktechnolgien vorgestellt. Final werden die bereits vielversprechenden Ergebnisse eines ersten Experiments zur Nutzbarkeit von Sensorinformationen des Smartphones im Bereich der Kollisionsvermeidung vorgestellt und diskutiert.

Extracting Urban Food Potential: design-based methods for digital and bodily cartography

Sweden���s recent report on Urban Sustainable Development calls out a missing link between the urban design process and citizens. This paper investigates if engaging citizens as design agents by providing a platform for alternate participation can bridge this gap, through the transfer of spatial agency and new modes of critical cartography. To assess whether this is the case, the approaches are applied to Stockholm���s urban agriculture movement in a staged intervention. The aim of the intervention was to engage citizens in locating existing and potential places for growing food and in gathering information from these sites to inform design in urban agriculture. The design-based methodologies incorporated digital and bodily interfaces for this cartography to take place. The Urban CoMapper, a smartphone digital app, captured real-time perspectives through crowd-sourced mapping. In the bodily cartography, participant���s used their bodies to trace the site and reveal their sensorial perceptions. The data gathered from these approaches gave way to a mode of artistic research for exploring urban agriculture, along with inviting artists to be engaged in the dialogues. In sum, results showed that a combination of digital and bodily approaches was necessary for a critical cartography if we want to engage citizens holistically into the urban design process as spatial agents informing urban policy. Such methodologies formed a reflective interrogation and encouraged a new intimacy with nature, in this instance, one that can transform our urban conduct by questioning our eating habits: where we get our food from and how we eat it seasonally.

Probabilistic Independence Networks for Hidden Markov Probability Models

Graphical techniques for modeling the dependencies of randomvariables have been explored in a variety of different areas includingstatistics, statistical physics, artificial intelligence, speech recognition, image processing, and genetics.Formalisms for manipulating these models have been developedrelatively independently in these research communities. In this paper weexplore hidden Markov models (HMMs) and related structures within the general framework of probabilistic independencenetworks (PINs). The paper contains a self-contained review of the basic principles of PINs.It is shown that the well-known forward-backward (F-B) and Viterbialgorithms for HMMs are special cases of more general inference algorithms forarbitrary PINs. Furthermore, the existence of inference and estimationalgorithms for more general graphical models provides a set of analysistools for HMM practitioners who wish to explore a richer class of HMMstructures.Examples of relatively complex models to handle sensorfusion and coarticulationin speech recognitionare introduced and treated within the graphical model framework toillustrate the advantages of the general approach.

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Cuando el r��o suena nuestro dinero se lleva: Un reportaje sobre los planes para la recuperaci��n del r��o Bogot��

Este reportaje transmedia es una propuesta novedosa en Internet que cuenta con diferentes contenidos period��sticos para medios digitales presentados en distintos formatos como: texto, v��deo, imagen, audio, infograf��a y animaci��n. D��nde el navegador puede acceder a ��l a trav��s de equipos m��viles tales como: Smartphone, IPod, IPad, Tablet, port��tiles, entre otros. En este reportaje se muestra los diferentes planes para la recuperaci��n del r��o Bogot�� en los ��ltimos 12 a��os. La mala gesti��n y costos de las obras. Tambi��n evidencia las distintas posiciones de las entidades encargadas para la ejecuci��n de las obras y las historias de vida que muestran diferentes problem��ticas del r��o.