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A Probabilistic Kernel Method for Human Mobility Prediction with Smartphones

Human mobility prediction is an important problem which has a large num- ber of applications, especially in context-aware services. This paper presents a study on location prediction using smartphone data, in which we address mod- eling and application asp ...

2015

RoutineSense: A Mobile Sensing Framework for the Reconstruction of User Routines

Karl Aberer, Matteo Vasirani, Michele Catasta, Jean-Eudes Marie Ranvier

Modern smartphones are powerful platforms that have become part of the everyday life for most people. Thanks to their sensing and computing capabilities, smartphones can unobtrusively identify simple user states (e.g., location, performed activity, etc.), ...

2015

Estimation of Blood Pressure and Pulse Transit Time Using Your Smartphone

David Atienza Alonso, Francisco Javier Rincon Vallejos, Srinivasan Murali, Alair Dias Junior

It is widely recognized today that there is an alarming rise of lifestyle-induced chronic diseases (e.g., type II diabetes) in our society. Therefore, a strong need exists for cost-effective and non-invasive devices that can measure blood pressure (BP) to ...

IEEE Computer Society Press2015

Autonomous, Vision-based Flight and Live Dense 3D Mapping with a Quadrotor Micro Aerial Vehicle

Davide Scaramuzza

The use of mobile robots in search-and-rescue and disaster-response missions has increased significantly in recent years. However, they are still remotely controlled by expert professionals on an actuator set-point level, and they would benefit, therefore, ...

John Wiley & Sons2015

Resources efficient product provision - Closing the resources loop for waste mobile phones and smartphones

Scarcity of natural resources and supply chain risks represent one of today's most vital topics. This issue very much applies to the electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) sector, as its production requires a mixture of various different kinds of raw ma ...

Villigen PSI, World Resources Forum, printed by Paul Scherrer Institute2015

Online Unsupervised State Recognition in Sensor Data

Karl Aberer, Julien Eberle, Tri Kurniawan Wijaya

Smart sensors, such as smart meters or smart phones, are nowadays ubiquitous. To be "smart", however, they need to process their input data with limited storage and computational resources. In this paper, we convert the stream of sensor data into a stream ...

2015

An Interactive App for Color Deficient Viewers

Sabine Süsstrunk, Cheryl Shaulya Lau, Nicolas Perdu, Gaurav Sharma

Color deficient individuals have trouble seeing color contrasts that could be very apparent to individuals with normal color vision. For example, for some color deficient individuals, red and green apples do not have the striking contrast they have for tho ...

2015

Energy-efficient Continuous Context Sensing on Mobile Phones

Julien Eberle

With the ever increasing adoption of smartphones worldwide, researchers have found the perfect sensor platform to perform context-based research and to prepare for context-based services to be also deployed for the end-users. However, continuous context se ...

EPFL2015

Data Management in Participatory Sensing

Mehdi Riahi

In recent years there has been a proliferation of privately owned sensing devices such as GPS devices, cameras, home weather stations and, more importantly, smart-phones. Most of these devices are either intrinsically mobile, e.g., smart-phones and GPS dev ...

EPFL2015

Notch1 Pathway Activity Determines the Regulatory Role of Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts in Melanoma Growth and Invasion

Freddy Radtke

Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAF) play a crucial role in regulating cancer progression, yet the molecular determinant that governs the tumor regulatory role of CAF remains unknown. Using a mouse melanoma model in which exogenous melanoma cells were graft ...

Public Library of Science2015

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