We recently submitted two papers to the ACM IMCOM (ICUIMC) 2015 conference to be held in Bali, Indonesia in January 2015. Both papers were accepted as full papers. Below is a short summary of the two accepted papers.
First paper describes the concept and design of a novel Context-Aware Nurse Assistant (CANA) system that combines various tools needed by nurses in the Finnish elderly house context. Currently, these nurses are performing much of their information processing tasks manually. According to our initial user study, there is a clear need for an advanced mobile application to support nurses’ work activities. Hence, we applied the User Centered Design method to create an application concept and a prototype together with nurses. A low-fidelity prototype was evaluated with end users so as to confirm its appropriateness. Bibliometric details of the paper are as follows:
- Authors: Mitra Dirin, Amir Dirin and Teemu H. Laine
- Title: User-Centered Design of a Context-Aware Nurse Assistant (CANA) at Finnish Elderly Houses
- Conference: International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (ACM IMCOM)
Second paper presents an accurate and power-efficient step counting algorithm for smartphones. The algorithm is based on our proposed advanced zero crossing technique that is coupled with linear regression. The algorithm was evaluated with three subject using both subject-dependent and subject-independent settings. Power consumption measurement was also performed. Details of the paper are:
- Authors: Jung Ryul Seo, Yu Tsai Chiang, Teemu H. Laine, Adil M. Khan
- Title: Step counting on smartphones using advanced zero-crossing and linear regression
- Conference: International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (ACM IMCOM)