INTRODUCTION With the continuous growth of mobile network coverage and unprecedented penetration of mobile devices in the developing world, several mHealth initiatives are being implemented in developing countries. This paper aims to describe requirements for designing and implementing a mobile phone-based communication system aiming at monitoring pregnancy and reducing bottlenecks in communica...

In this paper, we study a new multicast paradigm for large scale mobile ad hoc networks, namely team multicast. In team multicast the multicast group does not consist of individuals, rather, of member teams. For example a team may be a special task force that is part of a search and rescue operation. The message must be broadcast to each member of each team in the multicast group. Team multicas...

team reflexivity as a conscious reflection on team functioning, is a key factor of team effectiveness. because reflexivity (including some of the behaviors that) is caused of learning from past mistakes and errors (team learning) improve the performance of the team. the present study attempts to demonstrate the key role of the team reflexivity on team performance (especially in a project team w...

This paper presents the use of a hybrid collaborative stereo vision system (3D-distributed visual sensing using different kind of vision cameras) for the autonomous navigation of a wheeled robot team. It is proposed a triangulation-based method for the 3D-posture computation of an unknown object by considering the collaborative hybrid stereo vision system, and this way to steer the robots team ...

This work investigates how wireless signal attenuation affects a team of mobile robots performing exploration. Many coverage tasks, such as search and rescue or exploration, can be performed more effectively when robots communicate with one other. However, in real world environments, maintaining communication can be difficult due to unpredictable wireless signal propagation. In this paper, we i...

In this paper, we investigate whether we can qualitatively recover the appropriate group sizes for a team of predators by varying environmental and operational conditions. The result is a combination of biologically inspired analytical and algorithmic tools that not only establish guaranteed capture conditions, but also identify the number of predators needed for a successful capture. We implem...

In this paper the hardware and software design of the CMU Hammerhead middle-size robot team are presented. The team consists of 4 fully autonomous robots with wireless communication and color vision. TeamBots, a Java-based software package, forms the robots' software architecture, while Clay, a TeamBots package for creating motor-schema based control systems, is used for developing behaviors. T...

In this workshop paper, we examined how non-equivalent communication technologies impact on trust in partially distributed conceptual design teams. To incorporate the uniqueness of partially distributed team setting, we distinguished trust into two categories, which were trust towards distant partners (distant trust) and trust towards colocated partners (co-located trust). Findings revealed tha...

today, teams are a key resource for learning and work in organizations and this has increased the importance of designing team-based structures. diversity management teams is something that managers should consider when team building. the effect of team diversity on team outcomes and its moderating variable,hasn’t completely identified yet in iran. therefore, given the importance of, this study...

In the last 10 years Open Source products have been widely used in industry. New methodologies and best practices to develop Open Source software appeared. In this work, we present an application that runs on Android-based mobile phones and collects proximity data with other devices via Bluetooth. The application gives new insights into measuring proximity inside a team of software developers. ...