COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES AND RESOURCES IN A RESIDENTIAL SETTING: LOCATION MATTERS

Anonymization in Proactive Location Based Community Services

Location information of mobile users is very sensitive with regard to privacy. This is especially true for proactive location based services (LBSs) where users are continuously tracked. Effective privacy enhancing technologies for these services are still an open field of research. In this paper, we focus on proactive location based community services (PLBCSs), such as mobile gaming or buddy tr...

Youth crisis services: short-term community-based residential treatment.

task-based language teaching in iran: a mixed study through constructing and validating a new questionnaire based on theoretical, sociocultural, and educational frameworks

جنبه های گوناگونی از زندگی در ایران را از جمله سبک زندگی، علم و امکانات فنی و تکنولوژیکی می توان کم یا بیش وارداتی در نظر گرفت. زبان انگلیسی و روش تدریس آن نیز از این قاعده مثتسنی نیست. با این حال گاهی سوال پیش می آید که آیا یک روش خاص با زیر ساخت های نظری، فرهنگی اجتماعی و آموزشی جامعه ایرانی سازگاری دارد یا خیر. این تحقیق بر اساس روش های ترکیبی انجام شده است.پرسش نامه ای نیز برای زبان آموزان ...

When Geography Matters - Location Awareness and Community Care

This paper presents some of the early design work of the 'Care in the Digital Community' research project-begun under the EPSRC IRC Network project EQUATOR. We outline some initial findings and designs from this interdisciplinary research project focusing on developing enabling technologies to assist care in the community for user groups with different support needs. While location-awareness ma...

Anonymous User Tracking for Location-Based Community Services

In location-based community services (LBCSs), the positions of several targets are interrelated. Users can be notified when targets approach or separate from each other. Typical application areas are instant messaging, mobile gaming, dating, fleet management and logistics, as well as child tracking. Finding appropriate anonymization techniques for LBCSs is a hard problem since (i) the targets a...