Smartphone Era Research Articles

Improving Internal Medicine Residentsʼ Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Screening Knowledge via Smart Phone Application: A Novel Approach

Introduction: Colo-Rectal cancer is the third most common type of cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. The incidence and mortality of CRC have declined in the last decade, but still there is a room for improvement. About one in three adults in US is not getting the CRC screening as recommended. Internal medicine residents are deficient in CRC screening knowledge as shown by previous studies. we conducted this IRB approved study [UT IRB# 201713] to improve the residents CRC screening knowledge via smart phone application. Methods: A questionnaire was designed based on CRC screening guidelines of ACS, ACG and USPSTF. The questionnaire was emailed via SurveyMonkey link to all the residents of internal medicine department. The responses were analyzed after 4 weeks. Then a smart phone application was designed and was published on Play Store and App Store for android users and I phone users respectively. All the residents were introduced to the application. The survey was repeated and the responses were compared with the previous one. Pearson Chi square test and the fisher exact test was applied to look for statistical significance.Table: Number of Responders Correctly Identifying Appropriate Exams for CRC Screening.Table: Number of Responders Correctly Identifying Appropriate Exams for CRC Screening.Table: Number of Responders Correctly Identifying Appropriate Exams for CRC Screening.Results: 50 residents completed the first survey and 41 completed the second survey after publication of the application. There was no significant difference in knowledge by the residency years at baseline and knowledge improved equally across all the residency years. Survey was divided into seven domains to test various aspects of CRC screening knowledge. Some of the areas which showed statistically significant improvement (P value <0.05) included age to start CRC screening in African Americans, ordering preventive tests first, identification of CRC screening tests, identification of preventive and detection methods, positive tests to be followed by colonoscopy, follow up after colonoscopy findings and CRC surveillance in diseases. Conclusion: In this modern era of smart phones and gadgets, developing a smartphone based application or educational tool is a novel idea and can help in improving the knowledge of residents about colorectal cancer screening as shown by our study. Such smart phone based educational tool can be a part of residents' orientation before the start of residency to emphasize further on CRC screening.

Robust Indoor Localization across Smartphone Models with Ellipsoid Features from Multiple RSSIs

Localization for mobile devices has become important as the basis technology for various ubiquitous computing applications. While GPS is leveraged as the de-facto standard technology in outdoor localization, its accuracy is poor indoors. For twenty years, researchers have tried to investigate indoor localization technology using fingerprinting from received signal strength indicators (RSSIs). With the widespread use of smartphones in the last decade, device dependency (e.g. antenna characteristics) must be considered to avoid performance degradation, while most of the recent localization approaches assume that all the smartphone models have the same device characteristics. In this paper, we propose a novel feature representation based on multiple RSSIs for compensating performance degradation against smartphone models changes. In contrast to the previous feature representation based on a single RSSI, our new feature representation, which we call Ellipsoid features, employs tuples of pair of RSSIs to eliminate device dependence in the path loss model for wave propagation. In contrast to recent advances in machine learning methods such as domain adaptation, multi-task learning, and semi-supervised learning, our approach requires no additional dataset nor retraining for the new target models. This simplicity would promote ubiquity of indoor localization in the era of smartphones. Moreover, our feature representation works well compared to the state-of-the-arts in feature representations based on multiple RSSIs even when only a small number of access points (APs) are available. Experimental result using smartphone devices including Android Nexus5, Nexus5X, Nexus6P, and Xperia X Performance shows that our approach achieves superior performance over the state-of-the-art indoor localization models as well as robust performance against device changes.

Development of Android Based Powered Intelligent Wheelchair for Quadriplegic Persons

Several surveys give us the view that both children and adults benefit substantially from access towards independent mobility. With the inventions of technology, no individuals are satisfied with traditional manual operated machines. To accommodate population, researchers are using technology, originally developed for mobile robots to create ‘intelligent wheelchairs’. It’s a major challenge for quadriplegic persons as they really find it difficult to manipulate powered wheelchair during the activities of their daily living. As the Smartphone era has evolved with innovative android based applications, engineers are improving and trying to make such machines simple and cheap to the next level. In this paper, we present a development of android based powered intelligent wheelchair to assist the quadriplegic person by making them self sufficient in controlling the wheelchair. The wheels of the chair can be controlled by the voice or gesture movement or by touching the screen of the android app by the challenged persons. The system uses the Bluetooth communication to interface the microcontroller and the inbuilt sensors in the android Smartphone. According to the commands received from android phone, the kinematics of the wheels are controlled.

Put the Phone Down

If there ever was a key to happiness, this key would open a door that leads straight to a rich social life. And in the era of smartphones, this key to social connection is in our pockets anytime and anywhere. Or is it? Using the experience sampling method (ESM), we explore the use of computer-mediated communication (CMC) in the context of face-to-face (FtF) social interactions, testing two competing hypotheses: (1) a complementarity hypothesis stating that more channels of communication should be associated with higher well-being and (2) an interference hypothesis stating that FtF interactions could be impoverished by adding computer-mediated channels of communication. We surveyed 174 millennials (Mage = 19.28; range: 17–22) 5 times a day over a period of a week (4,508 episodes). When participants reported a mix of CMC and FtF socializing in the same episode, they felt worse and less connected than when solely interacting FtF.

A Case Study on Iteratively Assessing and Enhancing Wearable User Interface Prototypes

Wearable devices are being explored and investigated as a promising computing platform as well as a source of personal big data for the post smartphone era. To deal with a series of rapidly developed wearable prototypes, a well-structured strategy is required to assess the prototypes at various development stages. In this paper, we first design and develop variants of advanced wearable user interface prototypes, including joystick-embedded, potentiometer-embedded, motion-gesture and contactless infrared user interfaces for rapidly assessing hands-on user experience of potential futuristic user interfaces. To achieve this goal systematically, we propose a conceptual test framework and present a case study of using the proposed framework in an iterative cyclic process to prototype, test, analyze, and refine the wearable user interface prototypes. We attempt to improve the usability of the user interface prototypes by integrating initial user feedback into the leading phase of the test framework. In the following phase of the test framework, we track signs of improvements through the overall results of usability assessments, task workload assessments and user experience evaluation of the prototypes. The presented comprehensive and in-depth case study demonstrates that the iterative approach employed by the test framework was effective in assessing and enhancing the prototypes, as well as gaining insights on potential applications and establishing practical guidelines for effective and usable wearable user interface development.

スマートフォン時代の教材設計における「観察」の重要性

スマートフォン時代の教材設計における「観察」の重要性

Quality of Communication: Paging System Use in the Smartphone Era

Background: Paging-systems (PS) are important means of communication between providers. PS may provide only limited information, and quality of communication (QOC) may be suboptimal. To investigate QOC using PS at a general surgery residency program. Methods: 7 surgical services pagers records were obtained from communication department over 24 hour in 2017. In addition to frequency, pages were evaluated for 5-quality metrics: paging party, callback number, urgency, reason for page, and patient identifiers. A survey was distributed to general surgery residents evaluating their perception of QOC. Results: 126 pages were captured over 24 hours (61% am-shift, 39% pm-shift). Thirty-two% contained only a callback number, and 20% contained all 5-components. Fifty-one% were from patient wards, 28% consultants, and 21% peri-operative services. 97% did not include urgency, and 39% reason for page. Median components was 3, with consultants having an OR=6; [CI95%:1.9-18.2] (p 1 min on-hold. Majority agreed that callback only may lead to loss of time and felt that standardizing paging can improve communication. Conclusion: The PS is still relevant in a hospital setting. Many pages could be improved to facilitate efficient communication to surgery residents. Residents feel strongly that there is room to improve QOC between providers. Despite relevance of PS, updating the system is necessary to improve inter-professional communication.

IEEE Access Special Section Editorial: Emergent Topics for Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems in Smartphone, IOT, and Cloud Computing ERA

The tremendously rapid popularization of smart phones has significantly impacted our daily lives. Smartphones are used not only for voice communication but also for various purposes such as information search (e.g., Web, Location-Based Services (LBS), etc.), E-commerce (e.g., on-line shopping, trading, etc.), and establishing social relationships (i.e., Social Networking Services (SNSs)). Meanwhile, in the last decade, various new technical advances such as Internet of Things (IoT), machine-to-machine (M2M), Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), cloud computing, and crowdsourcing have become a big trend and have had significant impacts on both academic and social aspects.

Taking "Cellfies": Blood Morphology in the Era of Smartphones

Background: Microscopic examination of blood and marrow smears by hematologists is an essential clinical skill at risk of extinction in this high-tech era. This skill is on the decline being replaced by the reliance on flow cytometry, FISH, and molecular diagnostics. Five years ago, we observed that photographs of the oil-immersion field (OIF) in focus could be taken by positioning the smartphone camera lens close to either eyepiece. The captured image could be viewed on the smartphone, swiped to view detail, stored, and shared. We coined the term "Cellfie" for this smartphone image of the OIF. Cellfies can be taken with any smartphone at any microscope, with most learners taking a few minutes for their first Cellfie, and experts able to take Cellfies in a few seconds. Since 2012, we have taught fellows to use Cellfies at the microscope in the hospital and in clinic, and we present the experience of our hematology fellows using Cellfies.Methods: We surveyed past and current hematology fellows (Class of 2015-to Class of 2019) regarding their experience with Cellfies.Results: Nineteen of the twenty fellows invited to participate in the survey responded (95%). Two were PGY IV, 4 were PGY V, and 6 were PGY-VI. Four were fellows who graduated and in practice for one year (3 fellows did not provide level of training). Fifteen of 19 fellows (79%) had taken a Cellfie at some point during their training. Five took <10 Cellfies, 4 took 10-20 Cellfies, and one fellow had taken 50 or more Cellfies. Eight (53%) fellows rated the technique as ’easy’, and 6 as ’difficult’ (40%); one patient found the technique ’very difficult’. Cellfies were commonly used for consultation (80% of responders) and morphology teaching or use in conferences (67%). Only 2 responders had ever used Cellfies to paste in the electronic medical record (EMR). Overall, 80% of the responders thought Cellfies as a very useful tool in their everyday hematology practice.Conclusion: Cellfie use by hematology fellows has resurrected this essential clinical skill of expertise in blood morphology. We have found a way to rekindle a passion for morphology and renew enthusiasm amongst hematology fellows, residents, and students to use information from microscopy as an essential component of their clinical skills. Taking and sharing Cellfies has the potential to put microscope skills back at the bedside, enable rapid diagnosis and treatment, shorten time to intervention in emergencies (acute promyelocytic leukemia, microangiopathy syndromes for example), expedite consultation after-hours and weekends, improve the quality of documentation in EMRs, create a portfolio of stored images for review, and teaching, and enhance patient-care. DisclosuresNo relevant conflicts of interest to declare.

Choosing to stay away: Soccer fans’ purposeful avoidance of soccer events

Against conventional patterns of fandom loyalty, it is interesting to examine the behavioral patterns of enthusiastic fans who specifically choose to distance themselves from their favorite team and from reality during decisive matches. The present study explores the reasons and implications of such behavior, based on in-depth interviews with 19 soccer team fans in Israel who practice such purposeful avoidance. Findings show that such purposeful avoidance of games is generally motivated by a desire to avoid a source of stress or can be attributed to an illusion of influence, where purposeful avoidance is part of rituals whose irrationality is recognized by the fans themselves. Today, in the era of ubiquitous smartphones and social networks, purposeful avoidance becomes a true challenge.

From Mental Maps to GeoParticipation

Ever since behavioural geographers started working with place perception; and Peter Gould and Kevin Lynch used mental maps to explore city visualization and spatial preferences, participation has become an integral part of geographical research. Later, when Robert Chambers and others introduced maps into Participatory Rural Appraisal, Participatory GIS and Public Participation GIS were also recognized by quantitative geographers as research methods and visualization tools. In the era of smartphones and global Internet coverage, applications such as FixMyStreet, ArcGIS Online, CartoDB and Maptioannaire allow users to cross the technology gap and become neocartographers without the need for GIS knowledge. GeoParticipation based on using spatial tools in order to involve citizens in community participation can be the future development of Public Participation GIS as it provides an easy-to-use environment and social engagement while creating the feeling of belonging to a certain social group or community. The paper presents a historical review of participatory approaches to the creation of maps, while focusing on the changing role of citizens; from being the objects of geographical research to being the creators of the agenda as well as decision-makers within their communities. Maps were always used as tools of power, but there is a visible shift in the (map) power structures, from maps created by experts and state administration representatives towards maps created by people and their users.

Understanding Civic Engagement in the Smartphone Era: Corporate Sphere vs. Public Sphere

This paper analyzes the interplay between the government, civil groups, telecommunications corporations, and users in order to determine power negotiation among these major players, in particular between a corporate sphere and a public sphere in the process of the establishment of the Terminal Distribution Structure Improvement Act. It investigates whether Korean smartphone users have staged a collective, nationwide civic engagement against the Terminal Act or not. It discusses whether citizens equipped with the smartphone and relevant digital platforms (e.g., Twitter and KaKao Talk) are able to take part in civic movements, and its implications in conjunction with the corporate sphere. Civic movement organizations had been striving to protect the customers from powerful capital and the government; however, civic engagement has not been substantial. Our findings for mobile communication for gathering and discussing the Terminal Act proved that civic movements did not entail active participation in public engagement. Increasing corporate sphere has played a key role in curbing civic engagement.

Evaluating residential location inference of twitter users at district level: focused on Seoul city

Many people can easily write their articles using social network service (SNS), since we are living in Smart phone era. If we can infer twitter user’s residential location, it is possible to analyze sentimental analysis, movement of population, disease tracking, discourse of political and social issue for conversation related research, on-line issue monitoring and managing the risk about consumer. But because of privacy disclosure issue, it’s weakness that we can’t get a large amount of twitter user location information. In this research, we are using firehose twitter data level, spatial indicator, several clustering algorithm to overcome a small amount of location information in tweet. Also we are using district level residential location inference to improve accuracy. We selected Seoul city in South Korea, which has high twitter user and population in this research. We adopted variable clustering algorithm and compared inference accuracy by distance range. This research result analyzed that using spatial indicator for group A (point type of geotag), B (SNS), C (geocode), D (polygon type of geotag) rather than group A, C and Convex hull with onion peeling clustering algorithm has more inference probability of residential location also. As a result of this research, we hope to contribute algorithm research for twitter user location information inference, sparsity overcome and automated residential location inference.

APLIKASI GAME CAK INGKLING BERBASIS ANDROID

Game has been the one thing that is in our daily lives. Formerly only used as a means of entertainment games alone, but now the game has become wide functions, such as games can be used as a learning tool, a business area, and competed as one of the sport by professionals. Game development platform can also be viewed directly by the public, at first only games played on computer and console but has now entered the era of mobile game android and Windows Phone. A distinct advantage is the portability of mobile game play, that player can play games anywhere they want as long as they have mobile devices capable of running mobile games.Game developed a modification of the traditional game smack ingkling aimed at children aged 6-13 years , This game has 3 levels where each level the player will be given about the question. The design of this game uses the android operating system. In addition, this game was built using a programming language actionscrpit contained in Adobe Flash CS6. In the development of this game using MDLC (Multimedia Development Life Cycle) with five stages that have been made that concept, design, material colecting, assembly, and testing. Design and manufacture of this game is aimed at preserving the traditional game smack ingkling to be a trend back in the era of smartphones today.Keywords: Traditional games, hopscotch, MDLC, Android.

The Era of Smartphones: Back to Our Biological Makeup?

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Dual Layer Secured Password Manager using Blowfish and LSB

Today’s era is the era of Smart phones. Smart phones are continually becoming smaller, more powerful and can perform variety of tasks. The data generated by these devices need to be stored and accessed securely. One example of such sensitive data is password. Computer users are increasingly using password for online accounts, email servers, ecommerce sites, financial services and social media websites and it is always advisable that passwords should be complex and reuse of passwords should be avoided. Therefore this leads to a challenge of remembering several complex passwords for various applications, something an average human being is not very good at. In this paper, a Password Manager, an Android Application is proposed. This password manager takes login credentials (Email Address & Password) as input from user which is then being encrypted using Blowfish algorithm and finally the cipher is stored inside an image selected by user using LSB (least Significant Bit) Technique. A typical password manager uses database to store all login credentials but our proposed approach replaces database with image and stores all login credentials inside an image and in turn providing dual layer security of data that uses combination of both cryptography and steganography in which first layer is to scramble information using Blowfish Algorithm and second layer is insertion of scramble information inside an Image using least significant approach (LSB). Finally, performance analysis of cover-image and stego-image shows that image quality is preserved in terms of MSE and PSNR

A Review of Prospects and Challenges of Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) connects physical objects such as baby monitors, cars, tablet computers, fridges through the internet and they are equipped with capabilities to communicate with each other. They exchange information about themselves and their surroundings and provide improved efficiencies for the benefit of users. The future Internet is an emerging world of highly networked smart items that will be able to independently communicate with each other with little or no human intervention as the world moves into the era of smart phones, smart homes, smart offices, smart vehicles, smart classrooms, smart factories to smart everything. As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to grow security including new attack vectors, new vulnerabilities, and perhaps most concerning of all, a vastly increased ability to use remote access to cause physical destruction becomes a major concern. In this paper we seek to explain what the Internet of Things is, its future impact, challenges and how Digital Forensics Technology can be used to get evidence to prosecute offenders in the law court.

Multimedia Memory Cues for Augmenting Human Memory

Technology has always had a direct impact on what humans remember. In the era of smartphones and wearable devices, people easily capture information, such as pictures and videos, on a daily basis. The so-called quantified self movement focuses on using such captured multimedia information, often in combination with additional contextual data (such as GPS traces or social media posts), with the goal of extracting and providing better insights into people's everyday actions (for example, fitness tracking, work productivity, and dieting). However, a more interesting use of such captured data might be to directly support human memory. Here, the authors describe their efforts in the EU Recall project to extract memory cues from multimedia records to augment human memory beyond simple memory prosthetics.

Abstract IA10: Financial distress in patients with cancer: Contributing factors and potential solutions

Abstract As the cost of cancer care in the United States continues to rise at an unprecedented rate, cancer patients are struggling to pay their share of the bill. Along with other measures of financial distress, cancer patients are 2.65 times more likely to file for bankruptcy than patients without cancer. Several recent reports suggest that individuals who face such financial challenges during treatment are more likely to report treatment non-adherence, poorer quality of life, and may suffer worse clinical outcomes. Despite an increasing awareness of “financial toxicity” among cancer patients, few oncology practices have processes in place to identify high out-of-pocket spending for cancer care and to provide assistance to patients struggling to pay for treatment or manage other life expenses. Given the rising cost of cancer care and its growing impact on cancer patients' financial health, the oncology community must be proactive in developing tools to steer vulnerable patients towards appropriate resources to reduce or prevent financial crisis. Such an approach may help to reduce disparities in treatment, adherence, and outcomes faced by cancer patients with limited financial reserves. Addressing the patient-level financial burden of cancer care requires a multifaceted approach, including efforts at the policy level to negotiate pharmaceutical drug prices and improve structure of existing health insurance plans (e.g. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act). At the health system and payer level, efforts to improve cost transparency may decrease waste and price variation while improving care quality. At the patient and provider level, we propose several solutions that may also help to mitigate the financial burden of cancer treatment: 1) develop tools to track patient out-of-pocket costs and level of financial distress in real time; 2) develop strategies to align patients with available financial assistance resources from the time of diagnosis; 3) improve transparency about available effective treatment options and associated out-of-pocket costs to improve shared decision-making. In the era of widespread mobile phone and smartphone use across all racial and income groups, leveraging mobile technology to accomplish some of these goals is particularly appealing. Citation Format: Veena Shankaran. Financial distress in patients with cancer: Contributing factors and potential solutions. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the Eighth AACR Conference on The Science of Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved; Nov 13-16, 2015; Atlanta, GA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2016;25(3 Suppl):Abstract nr IA10.

사진적 이미지의 뮤직비디오 연구

뮤직 비디오는 오디오 음반의 발매와 함께 그에 어울리는 영상을 추가하여 비디오 클립으로 제작되는 멀티미디어유형이다. 원래는 단순한 음반의 홍보수단으로 출발하였으나 음악전문 케이블 M-TV 방영의 주요 콘텐츠로 각광받게 되면서 대량 제작되기 시작하였다. 21세기는 스마트 폰 시대로 애니메이션, 실사 영화, 다큐멘터리를 비롯한 다방면의 영화 제작 기술을 사용하고 있다. 그 중에서 사진적 이미지의 뮤직비디오를 대표하는 사진작가 겸 뮤직비디오 감독인 안톤 코빈과 스테반 세나두이를 중심으로 그들의 작품 경향을 분석하고자 한다. The music video was produced by the multimedia type of a video clip by adding the image to match it with the release of audio recordings. mass production. Although originally it started as a means of promoting music as mere receive attention as the main content of the music cable broadcast M-TV began mass production. The 21st century has used the technology in various fields, including animated films and live action films, documentaries smart phone era. Among attempts to analyze their work tends to center the photographer and music video director Anton Corbijin and Stephen Sednaoui representing a photographic image of a music video