Sharing emergency or disaster information in a timely manner is very important to people's life. With more and more people carrying a smart phone on daily basis, an emergency and disaster information sharing system accessible to smart phone users is necessary and could be very useful. This project is to construct a disaster and emergency information website that allows smart phone users to uplo...

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The use of smart phones is increasing in the world. This excessive use, especially in the last two decades, has created too much concern on the effects of emitted electromagnetic fields and specific absorption rate on human health. In this descriptive-analytical study of the electric field resulting from smart phones of Samsung and Nokia by portable measuring device, electromagnetic field, Mode...

Effects of “smart-phoning” (using a smart phone) while walking were investigated in a laboratory experiment. While walking with an iPhone 5s, 24 undergraduate students texted a message, watched a video, played a game, and just held the phone in one hand in addition to performing visual and auditory detection tasks at the same time. The detection tasks were to respond to designated target signal...

The proliferation of smart mobile phones with diverse features makes it possible to increase their use in criminal activities. The fast technological evolution and presence of different smart phones and their proprietary operating systems pose great difficulties for investigators and law enforcement officials to choose the best tool for forensics examination, accurate recovery and speedy analys...

This paper presents a low cost and flexible home control and monitoring system using an embedded micro-web server, with IP connectivity for accessing and controlling devices and appliances remotely using Android based Smart phone app. The proposed system does not require a dedicated server PC with respect to similar systems and offers a novel communication protocol to monitor and control the ho...

We developed Smart Furniture, which extemporaneously converts the legacy non-smart space into a Smart Hot-spot which consists of computational services. Since the Smart Furniture is equipped with networked computers, sensors and various I/O devices, it can provide various services by alone or by coordinating with other devices. In this paper, the physical structure and middlewares for the Smart...

OBJECTIVE A systematic review was conducted to identify the types of phone technology used in the adult outpatient population with a focus on Hispanic patients and psychiatric populations. METHODS A search for articles was conducted on the EMBASE, PubMed and PsycINFO databases. Articles reviewed were peer-reviewed, full-text, English language and published through mid-November 2014. RESULTS...

This paper studies the use of a Bluetooth enabled mobile phone as a controlling device in a smart environment. Main focus for the work is partitioning of the functionality and the UI handling between a mobile phone and a smart appliance. There seems to be no single right solution for the partitioning of functions. Instead, there are so many case dependent characteristics that the partitioning o...