Comparative image analysis of Apple and Samsung devices: a technical perspective

The search for the most outstanding smartphone camera has been a frequent topic of conversation in the ever-changing world of technology. Through a thorough analysis, this study seeks to recommend the best smartphone camera. Pictures from rival phones were captured in various categories and thoroughly compared. From an engineering standpoint, our approach clarifies why specific images are better than others. Success in one area does not always translate to success in another. Furthermore, our study adds to the current conversation about Apple and Samsung's rivalry in the mobile device industry. Even though this competition has received much attention, previous studies have noticeably lacked a critical technical viewpoint on picture analysis. Our study paper examines the image processing capabilities of Samsung and Apple devices using sophisticated techniques such as marker-controlled watershed segmentation, texture segmentation, and color-based Segmentation in the Lab color space. Our research reveals notable differences in these industry leaders' image analysis performance. This realization provides consumers with helpful knowledge and acts as a guide for upcoming advancements in the industry. Through the investigation of this study, users, developers, and manufacturers may now compare Apple and Samsung smartphones in a more unbiased and knowledgeable manner, obtaining a better comprehension of each device's capabilities.</p

Canterbury, revisited:Reflections on a collaborative photography course for sighted and visually impaired participants

This chapter discusses the design, development, and implementation of a photography course that encouraged visually impaired and sighted students to work collaboratively. The teaching and collaborative tasks on the course were designed to encourage soft skills through the development of photographic skills, an understanding of students’ experience of objects and environments, and to test the use of mainstream inclusive technologies in educational and real-life settings. The course was designed using the principles of inclusive technical capital and inclusive capital, and it was hypothesized that all participants would find working collaboratively with ubiquitous, mainstream photographic technologies accessible. During the evaluation, it was found that collaboration stretched the students’ learning, motivated future creative work and that smartphone and tablet computers had useable introductory photographic technologies, but experienced students with visual impairments and with sight preferred specialized cameras

Canterbury, revisited:Reflections on a collaborative photography course for sighted and visually impaired participants

This chapter discusses the design, development, and implementation of a photography course that encouraged visually impaired and sighted students to work collaboratively. The teaching and collaborative tasks on the course were designed to encourage soft skills through the development of photographic skills, an understanding of students’ experience of objects and environments, and to test the use of mainstream inclusive technologies in educational and real-life settings. The course was designed using the principles of inclusive technical capital and inclusive capital, and it was hypothesized that all participants would find working collaboratively with ubiquitous, mainstream photographic technologies accessible. During the evaluation, it was found that collaboration stretched the students’ learning, motivated future creative work and that smartphone and tablet computers had useable introductory photographic technologies, but experienced students with visual impairments and with sight preferred specialized cameras

Evaluation of a collaborative photography workshop using the iPad 2 as an accessible technology for participants who are blind, visually impaired and sighted working collaboratively

A workshop using iPads to train photographers who are blind, visually impaired and sighted is evaluated using a model of inclusive technical capital. It was hypothesized that all participants would find iPad apps accessible. It was found that iPads were good introductory devices, but experienced participants who are blind and sighted still preferred specialized cameras

Facebook's Mobile Career

At the end of its first decade, Facebook’s identity, popularity, and characteristics are shaped in important ways by its becoming a form of mobile media, as much as it as platform associated with Internet and social media. This paper seeks to explore and understand Facebook as the important force in mobile media and communication it now is. It draws upon and combines perspectives from technology production, design, and economy, as well as user adoption, consumption, practices, affect, emotion, and resistance. The paper discusses the beginnings of mobile Facebook, and the early adoption of mobile Facebook associated with the rise of smartphones. The second part of the paper explores Facebook’s integration with photography (with Instagram) and social games (such as Zynga’s Farmville). The paper argues that Facebook’s mobile career is an accomplishment that has distinctively melded evolving affordances, everyday use across a wide range of settings, as well as political economies, corporate strategy, and design.Australian Research Counci

The Portable Eye Examination Kit : mobile phones can screen for eye disease in low-resource settings

The Portable Eye Examination Kit (Peek) is being tested in field trials in Kenya, Mali, Malawi, Tanzania, Botswana, Madagascar, India, and the United Kingdom, and testing in more countries is planned in the future. Peek is a comprehensive and integrated smartphone-based tool kit that comprises the full set of core tests needed for eye screening, designed to be used by operators with minimal to no training. It is composed of a smartphone app and a low-cost adapter for retinal imaging, both optimized for ease of use, and it allows operators to test for the core vision problems-testing for visual acuity, color, and contrast sensitivity, image grading cataracts-and for photos of the back of the eye to be taken, saved, and sent to experts for diagnosis, follow-up, and arranging treatment. Peek's primary aim is not to enhance or replace existing diagnostics tools. Rather, Peek aims to link patients with eye care providers. Peek is specifically oriented and optimized toward eye screening in the community. With this, it helps to identify, directly in the community, by nonspecialist community workers, the people who need to be seen by an ophthalmologist, increasing access to high-quality eye care

Evaluation of a collaborative photography workshop using the iPad 2 as an accessible technology for participants who are blind, visually impaired and sighted working collaboratively

A workshop using iPads to train photographers who are blind, visually impaired and sighted is evaluated using grounded theory / methodology and a model of inclusive technical capital. It is hypothesized that all participants find iPad apps accessible. It is found that iPads and apps are generally good introductory tools, but experienced participants who are blind and visually impaired prefer specialized cameras

Interdependence as a Frame for Assistive Technology Research and Design

In this paper, we describe interdependence for assistive technology design, a frame developed to complement the traditional focus on independence in the Assistive Technology field. Interdependence emphasizes collaborative access and people with disabilities' important and often understated contribution in these efforts. We lay the foundation of this frame with literature from the academic discipline of Disability Studies and popular media contributed by contemporary disability justice activists. Then, drawing on cases from our own work, we show how the interdependence frame (1) synthesizes findings from a growing body of research in the Assistive Technology field and (2) helps us orient to additional technology design opportunities. We position interdependence as one possible orientation to, not a prescription for, research and design practice--one that opens new design possibilities and affirms our commitment to equal access for people with disabilities

Smartphone as a Personal, Pervasive Health Informatics Services Platform: Literature Review

Objectives: The article provides an overview of current trends in personal sensor, signal and imaging informatics, that are based on emerging mobile computing and communications technologies enclosed in a smartphone and enabling the provision of personal, pervasive health informatics services. Methods: The article reviews examples of these trends from the PubMed and Google scholar literature search engines, which, by no means claim to be complete, as the field is evolving and some recent advances may not be documented yet. Results: There exist critical technological advances in the surveyed smartphone technologies, employed in provision and improvement of diagnosis, acute and chronic treatment and rehabilitation health services, as well as in education and training of healthcare practitioners. However, the most emerging trend relates to a routine application of these technologies in a prevention/wellness sector, helping its users in self-care to stay healthy. Conclusions: Smartphone-based personal health informatics services exist, but still have a long way to go to become an everyday, personalized healthcare-provisioning tool in the medical field and in a clinical practice. Key main challenge for their widespread adoption involve lack of user acceptance striving from variable credibility and reliability of applications and solutions as they a) lack evidence-based approach; b) have low levels of medical professional involvement in their design and content; c) are provided in an unreliable way, influencing negatively its usability; and, in some cases, d) being industry-driven, hence exposing bias in information provided, for example towards particular types of treatment or intervention procedures

The Global Smartphone

The smartphone is often literally right in front of our nose, so you would think we would know what it is. But do we? To find out, 11 anthropologists each spent 16 months living in communities in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America, focusing on the take up of smartphones by older people. Their research reveals that smartphones are technology for everyone, not just for the young. The Global Smartphone presents a series of original perspectives deriving from this global and comparative research project. Smartphones have become as much a place within which we live as a device we use to provide ‘perpetual opportunism’, as they are always with us. The authors show how the smartphone is more than an ‘app device’ and explore differences between what people say about smartphones and how they use them. The smartphone is unprecedented in the degree to which we can transform it. As a result, it quickly assimilates personal values. In order to comprehend it, we must take into consideration a range of national and cultural nuances, such as visual communication in China and Japan, mobile money in Cameroon and Uganda, and access to health information in Chile and Ireland – all alongside diverse trajectories of ageing in Al Quds, Brazil and Italy. Only then can we know what a smartphone is and understand its consequences for people’s lives around the world