{"title":"Cross-layer data collection in wireless sensor networks","authors":"M. Hefeida","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867576","url":null,"abstract":"Energy efficiency is a fundamental requirement in many Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications due to the limited battery power of sensor nodes and the difficulty associated with replenishing such source. As a result, significant research efforts have been pursued over the last decade to realize energy efficient distributed data collection techniques aimed at prolonging network lifetime. Within data collection applications, there is a class of applications that do not reconstruct the entire sensing field but mainly focus on monitoring and event/anomaly detection scenarios. In such applications, only representative data values (or distinct within a given threshold) are desired from different geographical (spatial) regions. Utilizing existing data collection techniques in this type of applications yields communication-inefficient solutions, and therefore expensive in terms of energy cost. In this talk, we study cross-layer data collection/monitoring and highlight a cross-layer framework to reduce the number of communication operations in such applications. We propose the use of overhearing at the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer in modifying the behavior of the application layer in each node to realize efficient data collection. Data redundancy is reduced by dynamically distributing cluster head responsibilities over cluster members, thus balancing the load and prolonging the network lifetime. Despite the cost of overhearing, it can be overcome by the potential reduction of the number of communication operations by a factor of up to N-1 where N is the number of nodes in a neighborhood.","PeriodicalId":409799,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"1136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121714495","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":"Useful views of student artifacts and activities: Supporting student use of an open-ended exploratory construction tool in the classroom","authors":"K. K. Lamberty","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867589","url":null,"abstract":"Constructionism suggests that people learn particularly well when they are creating personally meaningful artifacts for an audience. Design-oriented construction kits can provide affordances for creative, open-ended exploration and creation, but their use can be difficult to incorporate in a classroom setting where many learners are working at different rates or may find certain aspects of the activities more or less compelling. During the shared time in the classroom, what can be done to help students and instructors maintain awareness of opportunities for reflection, collaboration, or sharing? Once the shared time has passed, how can teachers and students review the work that was accomplished for reflection, assessment, or further exploration? What kinds of guidance might be useful for helping align student activities with the goals of the instructor? DigiQuilt is a constructionist toolkit for exploring math concepts through the creation of patchwork quilt blocks that solve mathematical challenges. In this presentation, we describe previous and ongoing work that aims to improve DigiQuilt in ways that support its reflective, meaningful use by teachers and learners in a classroom setting.","PeriodicalId":409799,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125665952","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":"Adopting pedestrian navigation techniques for multi-robot coordination","authors":"S. Guy","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867580","url":null,"abstract":"Even when walking in complex environments, human beings are able to easily share space and navigate comfortably past each other without explicit communication. Our recent work has sought to build models of this human navigation for the purposes of producing high-quality, cooperative, collision-free motion in multi-agent navigation tasks. We will first describe some recent approaches to modeling pedestrian interaction. Next, we discuss how these models can be adapted to automate mutual collision avoidance in multi-agent environments. Lastly, we briefly discuss some recent applications of these techniques to collaborative analysis of evacuation route planning.","PeriodicalId":409799,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117240950","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":"Understanding data through collaboration: Developing collaboration support tools for expert artists and scientists","authors":"Daniel F. Keefe","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867624","url":null,"abstract":"In science, engineering, business, and even art, innovation and discovery today seem to be predicated by peoples' ability to understand complex data. Visualization is one way to achieve data understanding, and much of my research is focused on learning how to use computer graphics to present complex data to users in such a way that the human visual and cognitive systems can find meaning where automated data mining techniques cannot. One lesson my colleagues and I have learned from the users of our tools is that the interactive visualizations systems we create foster collaboration. This collaboration is repeatedly cited as one of the main benefits of the tools we create, even, to our surprise, when we have not intended for the tools to be used in a collaborative setting. This insight about the way people use data visualizations has inspired us to rethink the role of collaboration in data understanding. It also points to an exciting opportunity to combine research in data visualization with research in collaborative technologies.","PeriodicalId":409799,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123868951","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}
Markus Zimmermann, Stefan Bauer, Niklas Lutteken, Iris M. Rothkirch, K. Bengler
{"title":"Acting together by mutual control: Evaluation of a multimodal interaction concept for cooperative driving","authors":"Markus Zimmermann, Stefan Bauer, Niklas Lutteken, Iris M. Rothkirch, K. Bengler","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867569","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a study on the evaluation of a proposed interaction concept for cooperative driving in a lane-change scenario. First, cooperative driving is set into the context of human-machine cooperation. Second, for designing the system, the interaction between driver and car is established (based on mutual control), and the cooperation among different vehicles is elaborated. A timing sequence is presented for both. The corresponding multimodal user interface is introduced. The interface focuses on augmented reality via the contact analogue head-up display. During its design phase, certain mode aspects and design patterns are considered in order to improve the cooperation. Third, the implementation is outlined. Fourth, the evaluation is presented discussing the within-subjects experiment with 25 participants by means of three aspects: user interface quality, interaction timing and workload measurement, as a basis for user state inference. We obtained evidence that the proposed interaction concept improves cooperative behavior and increases safety. We furthermore verified a U-shaped relation between workload and performance by using a variety of different metrics. In a fifth step, future iterations are depicted.","PeriodicalId":409799,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128157660","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":"Asynchronous understanding of creative sessions using archived collaboration artifacts","authors":"Lutz Gericke, Matthias Wenzel, C. Meinel","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867540","url":null,"abstract":"To a large extend, collaboration and communication consists of the understanding of extrinsic activity. This task is especially hard to achieve in remote settings or also locally when people cannot take part in meetings. In this paper we are addressing the question, if understanding of the essential decisions, facts, and processes can be achieved by just consuming collaboration data afterwards. Therefore, we take existing experiment recordings and make them explorable by the Tele-Board History Browser. Participants had a given time frame to answer content-related questions for a design thinking session. We found out that people are able to review those creative sessions and grasp the essential key points in the past work processes. Still, people are approaching the data differently depending on their personal preferences and their general process knowledge. It turns out that our approach can help distributed teams in working closer together beyond conference calls or shared documents. From our perspective, traceability of past interactions can substantially ease remote collaboration, especially in creative settings.","PeriodicalId":409799,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115759485","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":"Pay2you places: The mobile payment with geo-location","authors":"M. Pasquet, N. Faye, Joan Reynaud","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867566","url":null,"abstract":"Pay2you Places is a new system of payment based on Smartphones geo-location functionalities and on virtual purse. It is characterized by the lightweight of its required equipment. We just need to install an application on the cellular of the client to assure the payment from start to finish. As for the trader only a registration on the service and a configuration of the electronic payment terminal are necessary to follow the settlement of the transaction. This innovative project helps to develop the use of mobile payment with existing equipment and by anticipating the improvement of Smartphones position accuracy. This paper aims at proposing solutions of safety and privacy for this system of geo-location payment.","PeriodicalId":409799,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114569624","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":"Securing cognitive radio networks against belief manipulation attacks via trust management","authors":"O. Savas, Gahng-Seop Ahn, Julia Deng","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867559","url":null,"abstract":"Cognitive Radio (CR) provides cognitive, self-organizing, and reconfiguration features. When forming a network, namely Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs), these features can further provide network agility and spectrum sharing. On the other hand, they also make the network much more vulnerable than other traditional wireless networks, e.g., ad hoc wireless or sensor networks. In particular, the malicious nodes may exploit the cognitive engine of CRs, and conduct belief manipulation attacks to degrade the network performance. Traditional security methods using cryptography or authentication cannot adequately address these attacks. In this paper, we propose to use trust management for a more robust CRN operation against belief manipulation attacks. Specifically, we first study the effects of malicious behaviors to the network performance, define trust evaluation metrics to capture malicious behaviors, and illustrate how trust management strategy can help to enhance the robustness of network operations in various network configurations.","PeriodicalId":409799,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129552002","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}
Oliver Stecklina, Stephan Kornemann, M. Methfessel
{"title":"A secure wake-up scheme for low power wireless sensor nodes","authors":"Oliver Stecklina, Stephan Kornemann, M. Methfessel","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867577","url":null,"abstract":"All visions of wireless sensor networks share the idea of small, inexpensive devices, distributed at all scales throughout everyday life. By using their smart phones millions of users were given an ubiquitous controller with a convenient user interface and the capability to set up their own wireless personal area network (WPAN). Smart home, ambient assisted living and health care applications were boosted within the last years by these technologies and are ready to enter the mass market. Critical for these applications are smart battery-driven devices, which enable short response times without scarifying node's lifetime. In this paper, we describe an approach and the implementation of a software-based secure wake-up scheme for small devices over an unreliable wireless communication link. We will demonstrate that in contrast to common low duty cycle protocols (LDCPs) the message delay can be dramatically reduced without increasing energy consumption. We are convinced that a broad variety of application scenarios in wireless sensor networks will benefit from this technology significantly.","PeriodicalId":409799,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130078311","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":"Addressing privacy issues in location-based collaborative and distributed environments","authors":"A. Saracino, D. Sgandurra, Dayana Spagnuelo","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867560","url":null,"abstract":"In the past few years collaborative environments have been growing fast thanks to the ubiquitousness of smartphones and to their rich features. These devices are nowadays very sophisticated by being able to receive GPS signal, communicate with other devices through mobile network, and to analyze several different kinds of data received with their sensors. In some collaborative environments, users need to access the correct geo-location, for example when they collaboratively contribute to build a collection of data about specific objects, such as for traffic news. On other hand, sharing the exact location may imply violations to the user privacy. In this paper we discuss the importance of the correct location in collaborative environments and we address the problem of privacy for users and show how current solutions, which aim to preserve the user privacy, can interfere with the correct behavior of some applications. We also propose a novel approach to provide the correct location to the collaborative network only when this is needed, which preserves the user privacy.","PeriodicalId":409799,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122527952","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}