This contribution introduces an emergency management system design based on platform-independent multi-touch technology as an interactive, ubiquitous front-end technology for pervasive sensor and communication components. This combination aims at supporting decision making and analyses during all phases of the emergency management process. From stakeholders providing planning information before...

Results of experimental investigations of using a coil-shaped injector for reducing NOx emissions from a diesel engine are presented. The study involved the effects of coil length and its mixing effectiveness and the development of the injector system for after treatment of diesel exhausts. Results indicate that the coil-shaped injector system with the ratios of length, pitch and wire diameter ...

Introduction: The rapid development of wireless telecommunication technologies over the past decades, has led to significant changes in the exposure of the general public to electromagnetic fields. Nowadays, people are continuously exposed to different sources of electromagnetic fields such as mobile phones, mobile base stations, cordless phones, Wi-Fi routers, and power lines. Therefore, th...

Mobile phone location data is a newly emerging data source of great potential to support human mobility research. However, recent studies have indicated that many users can be easily re-identified based on their unique activity patterns. Privacy protection procedures will usually change the original data and cause a loss of data utility for analysis purposes. Therefore, the need for detailed da...

Quantitatively mapping the spatial distributions of infectious diseases is key to both investigating their epidemiology and identifying populations at risk of infection. Important advances in data quality and methodologies have allowed for better investigation of disease risk and its association with environmental factors. However, incorporating dynamic human behavioural processes in disease ma...

As sensor networks become increasingly ubiquitous, we envision an instrumented environment that can provide varying amounts of information to mobile applications immersed within the network. Such a scenario deviates from existing deployments of sensor networks which are often highly application-specific and generally funnel information to a central collection service for a single purpose. Inste...

We analyze 330,000 hours of continuous behavioral data logged by the mobile phones of 94 subjects, and compare these observations with selfreport relational data. The information from these two data sources is overlapping but distinct, and the accuracy of self-report data is considerably affected by such factors as the recency and salience of particular interactions. We present a new method for...

The quality of mobile apps is becoming an increasingly important issue. These apps are generally delivered through app stores that allow users to post reviews about apps. These user-reviews provide a rich data source that can be leveraged to understand user reported issues. In this study, we qualitatively study 6,390 low star-rating user-reviews for 20 free iOS apps. Our study uncovers 12 types...