Web, Mobile and Multimedia Technologies

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Computational Photography: Going Forward from an Historical Perspective
Computational photography is a nascent field that is rapidly gaining interest in various scientific and engineering research communities. This research is occurring in a context of a...

Managing Web Services
Service computing is the next major evolution of computing that aims at transforming data into artefacts that are acted upon, i.e., services. In that respect, service computing may be viewed...

Technological Fluency through Circuit Bending
Electronic technology is pervasive in our modern world but how it actually works can be a mystery to many people. In 1999 and 2002 the National Research Council (NRC) released influential...

Improving Mindfulness and Personal Resilience through Technology
Different activities that can be potentially embraced by almost any person such as physical exercise, deep and slow breathing or relaxation training have been shown to have beneficial effects on...
Mobile Persuasion for Health and Safety Promotion
Mobile apps are a very promising tool to promote attitude and behavior change in users. However, creating effective and successful mobile apps for health and safety promotion requires a wealth of...

Systems Optimization in Mobility Management
As mobile networks continue to grow and converge with the Internet, new wireless devices and their use are outnumbering the use of fixed network. Mobility management needs to meet the requirements...

Human-Computer & Human-Food Interactions: Beyond Nutritional Data and Educational Information
Raising people’s awareness of healthy and ecological food options with nutritional data and educational information does not foster a sustained practice towards a more environmentally...

Open Linked Data and Semantic Web: Towards the Web of Knowledge
What is open linked data? How is it connected with the future of the Web? In this talk, we will discuss the concept of open linked data and the advantages of creating an ecosystem for structuring,...

Algorithms for Cooperative IoT: From Edge Computing to Social Vehicles
Current technology trends including edge cloud computing, IoT and device mesh, crowd computing, the sharing economy, and collective computing, involve pooling together human and machine resources...

Imparting New Degrees of Freedom to Next Generation Displays and Cameras
We have seen a tremendous advancement in the past decade by which we will soon find cameras and projectors everywhere in diverse sizes, form factors and resolutions. More importantly, with...

Digital Economy: Harnessing the Benefits and Tackling the Challenges for Sustainable Development in Africa
Although there are a lot of resources in Africa, the adequate, efficient and sustainable use to protect the environment is still missing. The worldwide use of technology gives a solution to...

Duking it out at the Smartphone Mobile App Mapping API Corral:Apple, Google, and the Competition
The recent introduction of the Apple iPhone 5 and the accompanying iOS6 software environment which, among other changes, replaced the use of the Google Maps API in iOS5 by Apple's own...