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Securing a wireless sensor network for human tracking: a review of solutions
(Wiley, 2014)
Currently, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are formed by devices with limited resources and limited power energy availability. Thanks to their cost effectiveness, flexibility, and ease of deployment, wireless sensor ...
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Retinomorphic Event-Based Vision Sensors: Bioinspired Cameras With Spiking Output
(IEEE Computer Society, 2014)
State-of-the-art image sensors suffer from significant limitations imposed by their very principle of operation. These sensors acquire the visual information as a series of “snapshot” images, recorded at discrete points ...
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Heuristic evaluation on mobile interfaces: a new checklist
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014)
The rapid evolution and adoption of mobile devices raise new usability challenges, given their limitations (in screen size, battery life, etc.) as well as the specific requirements of this new interaction. Traditional ...
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Comparison and Characterization of Android-Based Fall Detection Systems
(MDPI, 2014)
Falls are a foremost source of injuries and hospitalization for seniors. The adoption of automatic fall detection mechanisms can noticeably reduce the response time of the medical staff or caregivers when a fall takes ...
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A game-based approach to the teaching of object-oriented programming languages
(Elsevier, 2014)
Students often have difficulties when trying to understand the concepts of object-oriented programming (OOP). This paper presents a contribution to the teaching of OOP languages through a game-oriented approach based on ...
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On the Capability of Smartphones to Perform as Communication Gateways in Medical Wireless Personal Area Networks
(MDPI, 2014)
This paper evaluates and characterizes the technical performance of medical wireless personal area networks (WPANs) that are based on smartphones. For this purpose, a prototype of a health telemonitoring system is ...