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Welcome to virosphere

Viruses may seem alien, but they are the most abundant and, arguably, the most important organisms on Earth. They are found just about everywhere, from oceans and forests to the people around you and, of course, in and on you as well. This world of strange, quasi-living things has been dubbed the virosphere, and it is a mysterious one – we know less about viruses than any other life form. But t...

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Throw Your Smartphone

The Android app developed in this work enables the user to take aerial photographs by throwing the smartphone in the air. This involved overcoming inherent limitations of the underlying system, such as camera lag and sensor saturation. A motion detection algorithm is proposed which reliably detects the stages of a vertical throw and copes with the system’s limitation. Experiments show that the ...

Can Your Smartphone Infer Your Mood?

Our driving vision is a smartphone service, called MoodSense, that can infer its owner’s mood based on information already available in today’s smartphones. The service will fundamentally enhance context-awareness by providing clues about mobile users’ mental states. We report early results from studying 25 iPhone users in the field and the correlation between their mood and phone usage. We sho...

Addicted to methadone

By attempting to quit and seeking help from others, you've already taken a remarkable first step in the direction of change. For those who may be unfamiliar, methadone is a synthetic opioid drug that is commonly used to treat narcotic or opiate addiction (such as heroin). Regardless of whether you started taking methadone to treat a drug addiction, pain, or for recreational purposes, it can be ...