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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Security bugs in large software ecosystems
Dimitris MitropoulosThe XRDS blog highlights a range of topics from security and privacy to neuroscience. Selected blog posts, edited for print, will be featured...
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The many stages of writing a paper, and how to close the deal
Suresh VenkatasubramanianOriginally posted on The Geomblog
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Quantified performance: assessing runners with sensors
Christina Strohrmann, Gerhard TrösterA look at how athletic performance can be measured outside of the laboratory.
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Fitness trackers
Andrew MillerDigital activity sensors are no longer confined to research labs; they're in the wild and they come in lime green. They offer the promise to improve...
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Tracking how we read: activity recognition for cognitive tasks
Kai KunzeUsing activity recognition for cognitive tasks can provide new insights about reading and learning habits.
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Toward smartphone assisted personal rehabilitation training
Gabriele Spina, Oliver AmftWhen utilizing internal sensors, modern smartphones are inexpensive and powerful wearable devices for sensor data acquisition, processing...
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Capturing human motion one step at a time
Rolf AdelsbergerThe design, construction, and deployment of a pressure-enhanced IMU system that fits in the bottom of your shoe.
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mHealth @ UAH: computing infrastructure for mobile health and wellness monitoring
Mladen Milosevic, Aleksandar Milenkovic, Emil JovanovNew health care systems that integrate wearable sensors, personal devices, and servers promise to fundamentally...
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Airwriting: bringing text entry to wearable computers
Christoph Amma, Tanja SchultzIt may be possible to enable text entry by writing freely in the air, using only the hand as a stylus.
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