SkinScan©: A portable library for melanoma detection on handheld devices

Handhelds for Digital Libraries

The present chapter introduces digital library services’ utilization through handheld devices, such as personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smartphones. It argues that handheld devices proliferation justifies the term digital library in terms of anywhere-anytime access, and retrieval and management of information. Furthermore, these devices constitute powerful information harvesting tools tha...

The use of handheld mobile devices: their impact and implications for library services

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to carry out a survey in order to better understand the nature of handheld mobile computing use by academic library users and to determine whether there is a significant demand for using the library services with these small screen devices. Design/methodology/approach – A survey is created to measure whether people want to access an OPAC with a small scree...

Handheld Haptics: A USB Media Controller with Force Sensing

We discuss design principles for a handheld haptic device, scenarios for their use, and our implementation of a portable handheld haptic device following these principles. Handheld devices offer unique challenges and opportunities for haptics: they are compact, simple and consequently low cost, while promising comfort, low fatigue, and affordances for many useful tasks such as controlling digit...

Portable ultrasound: the next generation arrives

PURPOSE: A new category of handheld devices has recently emerged that are even smaller than current portable models, with their main advantages being increased portability and affordability relative to their counterparts. However, these new devices have not yet been thoroughly evaluated in the clinical setting. METHODS: A prospective, non-blinded, three-phase study was designed to evaluate a ha...

Ubiquitous Access to Information Through Portable, Mobile, and Handheld Devices