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Child tracking system using smartphone
The number of missing children and kidnapping is on the rise in recent years. Every parent wills definitely going through an agonizing experience to have their children missing. Therefore, there are many safety measurements to prevent this incident from happening. The help of modern technologies is one of the ways to reduce children missing and kidnapping. A child can be tracked by using the global positioning system (GPS) and global system for mobile communication (GSM) technology. Advanced child monitoring systems are expensive. Not all families have the same living standards. For this purpose, a low-cost child tracking system is proposed in this study. The implementation of the proposed approach is reported in real-time
The impact of using location-based services with a behaviour-disordered child
In this paper we explore technologies that help parents locate their children. Parents regularly use mobile phones to stay in touch with their children, but recent developments in location-based tracking allow parents to assess the location of their child directly. Such location-based services offer new assurances, but also bring new privacy challenges. In order to explore these, we conducted a case study focussing on the way in which a family has used location-based technologies to keep track of a child with Aspergers Syndrome and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. This novel research shows that Location-Based Services, although usually applied to lone-worker situations, can be effectively applied to other user groups. The parents of the child were interviewed at length, and the interview was analysed using qualitative methods. The findings are discussed and considered against a current predictive model of LBS use
Overcoming barriers and increasing independence: service robots for elderly and disabled people
This paper discusses the potential for service robots to overcome barriers and increase independence of
elderly and disabled people. It includes a brief overview of the existing uses of service robots by disabled and elderly
people and advances in technology which will make new uses possible and provides suggestions for some of these new
applications. The paper also considers the design and other conditions to be met for user acceptance. It also discusses
the complementarity of assistive service robots and personal assistance and considers the types of applications and
users for which service robots are and are not suitable
Good practice guidance for the providers of chat services, instant messaging (im) and internet connectivity content and hosting
Device-Centric Monitoring for Mobile Device Management
The ubiquity of computing devices has led to an increased need to ensure not
only that the applications deployed on them are correct with respect to their
specifications, but also that the devices are used in an appropriate manner,
especially in situations where the device is provided by a party other than the
actual user. Much work which has been done on runtime verification for mobile
devices and operating systems is mostly application-centric, resulting in
global, device-centric properties (e.g. the user may not send more than 100
messages per day across all applications) being difficult or impossible to
verify. In this paper we present a device-centric approach to runtime verify
the device behaviour against a device policy with the different applications
acting as independent components contributing to the overall behaviour of the
device. We also present an implementation for Android devices, and evaluate it
on a number of device-centric policies, reporting the empirical results
obtained.Comment: In Proceedings FESCA 2016, arXiv:1603.0837
E-safety and Web 2.0: Web 2.0 technologies for learning at Key Stages 3 and 4
Becta commissioned the University of Nottingham in conjunction with London Knowledge Lab and Manchester Metropolitan University to research Web 2.0 technologies for learning at Key Stages 3 and 4. This is the fourth report from that research and concentrates on the e-safety aspects of Web 2.0 in education
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