Open-source hardware is hardware whose design is made publicly available so anyone can
study, modify, distribute, make and sell the design or the hardware based on that design …

Technology is changing at a rapid rate, opening up new possibilities within the health care
domain. Advances such as open source hardware, personal medical devices, and mobile …

Gesture recognition as ubiquitous input for mobile phones Page 25 Gesture recognition as
ubiquitous input for mobile phones Gerrit Niezen Gerhard P. Hancke University of Pretoria …

The objective of this study was to evaluate the various gesture recognition algorithms
currently in use, after which the most suitable algorithm was optimized in order to implement …

The choice of consumer healthcare and wellbeing technologies has never been greater,
and the introduction of consumer wearable technologies and inexpensive sensor kits means …

We present two designs in the area of the Internet of Things, utilizing the ontology-driven
Smart Objects For Intelligent Applications (SOFIA) Interoperability Platform (IOP). The IOP …

When we connect smart devices to one another we open up many new possibilities. One
interesting possibility is to support high-level semantic interaction without requiring multiple …

In envisioned smart environments, enabled by ubiquitous computing technologies,
electronic objects will be able to interconnect and interoperate. How will users of such smart …

As the environments in which we live become more intelligent—through more computational
power, embedded sensors and network connections between the devices that reside in the …

Objective: The present study investigates the acceptability of a novel ubiquitous social goal-
sharing intervention aimed at promoting physical activity (PA) in schoolchildren. Methods …