With the development of IT technologies, event data recorder (EDR) devices are now installed in modern vehicles to record and analyze vehicle-related events. As recorded EDRs began be used as conclusive proof courts, many researchers turned their focus on developing methodologies that can prote...

Designing a state-of-the-art large vocabulary speech recognition systems is a highly complex problem. A wide range of techniques are available that affect the performance and number of free parameters. Selecting the appropriate complexity of system is both time-consuming and only a limited number of possible systems can be examined. This paper presents initial results on automatic system select...

This study used existing digital technologies as probes to explore teenager’s use of exerciserelated technology, their usage contexts, and their ideas for the design of ubiquitous technology that would persuade their peers to be more active in their daily lives. The teenagers formed two groups using two different types of step counters as their data collection device. Both groups used the same ...

The primary role of antifouling precautions on ship hulls is to avoid the tremendous increase in drag resistance caused by the settlement of fouling species. In this chapter, basic hydrodynamic concepts needed to fully understand the effect of fouling species on the propulsion requirements of a ship will be introduced. Subsequently, studies on the drag resistance associated with various coating...

Knowledge of temperature-time curve for a certain time interval is needed in many scientific, medical and industrial applications. In some applications, however, the recorded temperature values in monitored time should be read wirelessly. Both requirements are defined especially for the transport of biological active substances. This set was applied in case study for continuous temperature data...

The present paper discusses the characterisation of toothbrushing activity, using acceleration data collected for 50 subjects in free-living conditions. The data logging is triggered by super-threshold values of acceleration, which can give rise to false activations by non-brushing activities. Due to large intra and inter individual variations, it is not possible to obtain an exhaustive trainin...