The boredom detector: Journal watch

Journal Watch (Spring 2017)

Journal Watch Non-HLA antibodies

The clinical impact of non-HLA specific antibodies either alone or in concert with donor HLA specific antibodies (DSA) has been an intense area of research in kidney transplantation and more recently in thoracic transplantation as well. These non-HLA antigens include receptors expressed by the vascular endothelium such as the G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), Major Histocompatibility Complex...

SPEEDY: A Fall Detector in a Wrist Watch

We present a wrist worn fall detector for elderly people. The detector is easy to wear and offers the full functionality of a small transportable wireless alarm system. It implements a fall detection algorithm which will alert a call center after a heavy fall. This occurs even if the wearer is unconscious or too agitated to press the alarm button himself. The algorithm is designed to work with ...

The phenomenon of boredom

Boredom remains a poorly understood phenomenon despite its evident association with dysfunctional behavior and mental health problems. However, little research has been devoted to the topic, and the bulk of studies have almost exclusively been quantitative in design. For this reason, a qualitative, interpretive phenomenological study was carried out, during which ten participants were asked for...

Watch What I Watch

This paper presents a high-level overview of Yahoo Research Berkeley’s approach to multimedia research and the ideas motivating it. This approach is characterized primarily by a shift away from building subsystems that attempt to discover or understand the “meaning” of media content toward systems and algorithms that can usefully utilize information about how media content is being used in spec...