Tim Coughlan, R. Comber, R. Mortier, T. Plötz, V. Mitchell
{"title":"HomeSys 2014","authors":"Tim Coughlan, R. Comber, R. Mortier, T. Plötz, V. Mitchell","doi":"10.1145/2638728.2641546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2638728.2641546","url":null,"abstract":"HomeSys 2014 will provide an insightful and constructive setting for the growing community of researchers studying ubiquitous technology in domestic spaces. Homes have been a consistent setting for ubiquitous computing research and development. This continues to evolve, reflecting the spread of computing into ever more of the fabric of our everyday lives. Inspired by the success of HomeSys at previous UbiComp conferences, a new organising team will arrange a balance of presentations, panel and whole room discussions, and an interactive session to explore the challenges currently facing ubiquitous computing in the home. Through this, HomeSys can continue to support reflection and development in home-based ubiquitous computing research across disciplines, act as a companion to the main UbiComp conference, strengthen existing networks, and produce new collaborations and outcomes","PeriodicalId":20496,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication","volume":"355 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76920295","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}
J. Bourgeois, J. Linden, Gerd Kortuem, B. Price, Christopher Rimmer
{"title":"Conversations with my washing machine: an in-the-wild study of demand shifting with self-generated energy","authors":"J. Bourgeois, J. Linden, Gerd Kortuem, B. Price, Christopher Rimmer","doi":"10.1145/2632048.2632106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2632048.2632106","url":null,"abstract":"Domestic microgeneration is the onsite generation of low- and zero-carbon heat and electricity by private households to meet their own needs. In this paper we explore how an everyday household routine -- that of doing laundry -- can be augmented by digital technologies to help households with photovoltaic solar energy generation to make better use of self-generated energy. This paper presents an 8-month in-the-wild study that involved 18 UK households in longitudinal energy data collection, prototype deployment and participatory data analysis. Through a series of technology interventions mixing energy feedback, proactive suggestions and direct control the study uncovered opportunities, potential rewards and barriers for families to shift energy consuming household activities and highlights how digital technology can act as mediator between household laundry routines and energy demand-shifting behaviors. Finally, the study provides insights into how a \"smart\" energy-aware washing machine shapes organization of domestic life and how people \"communicate\" with their washing machine.","PeriodicalId":20496,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82358313","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}
{"title":"Crowdsensing traces using bluetooth low energy (BLE) proximity tags","authors":"S. Sheikh, A. Lbath, Anas Basalamah","doi":"10.1145/2638728.2638760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2638728.2638760","url":null,"abstract":"Designing massive scale crowdsensing experiments using smartphones can be very challenging. In this work, we define a new approach for designing massive crowdsensing applications where we offload the burden of sensing from smartphones to low cost off-the-shelf Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) proximity tags. We discuss the usage of advertisements in BLE tags as a new energy-efficient sensing resource for massive scale crowd mobility trace collection. We performed a large experimental deployment with 600 tags and 10 smartphones conducted during the 5 days of the world largest annual gathering (The Hajj). We were able to achieve ~90% detectability rate while effectively reconstructing the routes of the participants.","PeriodicalId":20496,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82499518","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}
Luís A. Castro, J. Favela, Jessica Beltrán-Márquez, Edgar Chávez, Moisés Pérez, M. Rodríguez, Eduardo Quintana, René F. Navarro
{"title":"Collaborative opportunistic sensing with mobile phones","authors":"Luís A. Castro, J. Favela, Jessica Beltrán-Márquez, Edgar Chávez, Moisés Pérez, M. Rodríguez, Eduardo Quintana, René F. Navarro","doi":"10.1145/2638728.2638814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2638728.2638814","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile phones include a variety of sensors that can be used to develop context-aware applications and gather data about the user's behavior, including the places he visits, his level of activity and how frequently and with whom he socializes. The collection and analysis of these data has been the focus of recent attention in ubiquitous computing, giving rise to the field known as mobile sensing. In this work, we present a collaborative extension to InCense, a toolkit to facilitate behavioral data gathering from populations of mobile phone users. InCense aims at providing people with little or no technical background with a tool that assists in the rapid design and implementation of mobile phone sensing campaigns. By extending the architecture of InCense to support distributed sensing campaigns we are able to incorporate several strategies aimed at optimizing battery, storage, and bandwidth. These issues represent significant challenges in sensing campaigns that generate considerable amounts of data (i.e., collecting audio) or quickly drain the battery in the device (i.e., GPS), given the limitations of mobile devices. In this work, collaborative sensing is used to decide which mobile phone should capture audio when two or more devices are potentially recording a similar audio signal.","PeriodicalId":20496,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82545313","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}
Christa Simon, Ramyar Saeedi, Chris Cain, M. Schmitter-Edgecombe, Shervin Hajiamini, D. Cook
{"title":"Digital memory notebook: experimental evaluation of motivational reward strategies","authors":"Christa Simon, Ramyar Saeedi, Chris Cain, M. Schmitter-Edgecombe, Shervin Hajiamini, D. Cook","doi":"10.1145/2638728.2638808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2638728.2638808","url":null,"abstract":"Prompting technology can help individuals with cognitive impairments complete independent activities of daily living (IADL). Although the prompt delivery is an effective way to remind an adult to record a completed activity, this potential benefit may not be sufficient to motivate the adult to comply with the prompt on a consistent basis. In this work we extend activity-aware prompting techniques to utilize alternative reward structures. Our reward mechanism will allow adults to observe game progress as a result of their decisions to comply with the prompts. In our study with volunteer participants, the activity-aware reward-based prompting method increased the compliance rate compared to activity-aware prompting without rewarding the adults.","PeriodicalId":20496,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88869983","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}
E. D'Hondt, Jesse Zaman, Eline Philips, E. G. Boix, W. Meuter
{"title":"Orchestration support for participatory sensing campaigns","authors":"E. D'Hondt, Jesse Zaman, Eline Philips, E. G. Boix, W. Meuter","doi":"10.1145/2632048.2632105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2632048.2632105","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we argue the need for orchestration support for participatory campaigns to achieve campaign quality, and automatisation of said support to achieve scalability, both issues contributing to stakeholder usability. This goes further than providing support for defining campaigns, an issue tackled in prior work. We provide a formal definition for a campaign by extracting commonalities from the state of the art and expertise in organising noise mapping campaigns. Next, we formalise how to ensure campaigns end successfully, and translate this formal notion into an operational recipe for dynamic orchestration. We then present a framework for automatising campaign definition, monitoring and orchestration which relies on workflow technology. The framework is validated by re-enacting several campaigns previously run through manual orchestration and quantifying the increased efficiency.","PeriodicalId":20496,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication","volume":"78 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89424802","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}
{"title":"User interaction-based profiling system for Android application tuning","authors":"Seokjun Lee, Chanmin Yoon, H. Cha","doi":"10.1145/2632048.2636091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2632048.2636091","url":null,"abstract":"Quality improvement in mobile applications should be based on the consideration of several factors, such as users' diversity in spatio-temporal usage, as well as the device's resource usage, including battery life. Although application tuning should consider this practical issue, it is difficult to ensure the success of this process during the development stage due to the lack of information about application usage. This paper proposes a user interaction-based profiling system to overcome the limitations of development-level application debugging. In our system, the analysis of both device behavior and energy consumption is possible with fine-grained process-level application monitoring. By providing fine-grained information, including user interaction, system behavior, and power consumption, our system provides meaningful analysis for application tuning. The proposed method does not require the source code of the application and uses a web-based framework so that users can easily provide their usage data. Our case study with a few popular applications demonstrates that the proposed system is practical and useful for application tuning.","PeriodicalId":20496,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87999127","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}
{"title":"Designing a mobile system for public safety using open crime data and crowdsourcing","authors":"Yun Huang, Yang Wang, Corey White","doi":"10.1145/2638728.2638762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2638728.2638762","url":null,"abstract":"With more cities opening up crime data and the proliferation of participatory sensing, we explore ways to improve public safety of a local community by using open crime data and crowdsourcing. We first conducted an online survey to better understand the public safety needs of the Syracuse University (SU) community. Inspired by the survey results, we developed and deployed an Android mobile app in collaboration with the Department of Public Safety (DPS) at SU; the app integrates published safety incidents on a Google Map and SU campus alerts. We present our experience of co-designing this system with the DPS, challenges and experience of our initial app release. To design effective crowdsourcing of public safety information, we conducted a lab experiment to investigate what factors affect people's sharing decisions. The results suggest that both time of day and type of location significantly affect people's sharing decisions. These insights inform a re-design of our system to \"nudge\" people to report safety related information timely.","PeriodicalId":20496,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89992290","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}
K. Tei, Kazuya Aizawa, S. Suenaga, R. Takahashi, Shun Lee, Y. Fukazawa
{"title":"HoppingDuster: self-adaptive cleaning robot based on aerial vehicle","authors":"K. Tei, Kazuya Aizawa, S. Suenaga, R. Takahashi, Shun Lee, Y. Fukazawa","doi":"10.1145/2638728.2638767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2638728.2638767","url":null,"abstract":"Home cleaning robots have become popular. Most of the home cleaning robots are based on ground vehicles. While the cleaning robots based on ground vehicles can vacuum or wash floors robustly and efficiently, but they only clean on floors, not on stairs or furnitures. In this demo, we show a new concept of cleaning robot, called HoppingDuster. HoppingDuster is based on an aerial vehicle, which can y to stairs or furnitures to be cleaned, and hop or hover to wipe or blow down dust on them toward the floor so that the ground cleaning robot can vacuum the dust. HoppingDuster adapts its behavior to finish it cleaning within designated time and battery capacity.","PeriodicalId":20496,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86678180","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}
Md Tanvir Islam Aumi, Sidhant Gupta, Cameron Pickett, M. Reynolds, Shwetak N. Patel
{"title":"A self-calibrating approach to whole-home contactless power consumption sensing","authors":"Md Tanvir Islam Aumi, Sidhant Gupta, Cameron Pickett, M. Reynolds, Shwetak N. Patel","doi":"10.1145/2632048.2636087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2632048.2636087","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a significant improvement over past work on non-contact end-user deployable sensor for real time whole home power consumption. The technique allows users to place a single device consisting of magnetic pickups on the outside of a power or breaker panel to infer whole home power consumption without the need for professional installation of current transformers (CTs). The new approach does not require precise placement on the breaker panel, a key requirement in previous approaches. This is enabled through a self-calibration technique using a neural network that dynamically learns the transfer function despite the placement of the sensor and the construction of the breaker panel itself. We also demonstrate the ability to actually infer true power using this technique, unlike past solutions that have only been able to capture apparent power. We have evaluated our technique in six homes and one industrial building, including one seven-day deployment. Our results show we can estimate true power consumption with an average accuracy of 95.0% during naturalistic energy use in the home.","PeriodicalId":20496,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81022879","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}