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Sign-A-Mander: A Mobile App That Enhances Asl Learning With Computer Vision, Sandrine Adap
Sign-A-Mander: A Mobile App That Enhances Asl Learning With Computer Vision, Sandrine Adap
Honors Theses
Several machine learning researchers have developed algorithms recognizing American Sign Language (ASL), but few have applied the algorithms to real-world situations, such as with portable ASL learning applications. This project develops a beta version of a mobile application designed to allow beginner ASL learners to practice basic ASL vocabulary and receive feedback about their signing accuracy. Building on Dongxu Li et al.’s I3D sign language recognition algorithm and 2000-word dataset, the app seeks to determine whether the I3D algorithm can sufficiently recognize a user’s motions when recorded from a mobile device and accurately classify whether or not the user signed …
Domain Specific Analysis Of Privacy Practices And Concerns In The Mobile Application Market, Fahimeh Ebrahimi Meymand
Domain Specific Analysis Of Privacy Practices And Concerns In The Mobile Application Market, Fahimeh Ebrahimi Meymand
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Mobile applications (apps) constantly demand access to sensitive user information in exchange for more personalized services. These-mostly unjustified-data collection tactics have raised major privacy concerns among mobile app users. Existing research on mobile app privacy aims to identify these concerns, expose apps with malicious data collection practices, assess the quality of apps' privacy policies, and propose automated solutions for privacy leak detection and prevention. However, existing solutions are generic, frequently missing the contextual characteristics of different application domains. To address these limitations, in this dissertation, we study privacy in the app store at a domain level. Our objective is to …
The (Digital) Medium Of Mobility Is The Message: Examining The Influence Of E-Scooter Mobile App Perceptions On E-Scooter Use Intent, Rabindra Ratan, Kelsey Earle, Sonny Rosenthal, Vivian Hsueh Hua Chen, Andrew Gambiro, Gerard Goggin, Hallam Stevens, Benjamin Li, Kwan Min Lee
The (Digital) Medium Of Mobility Is The Message: Examining The Influence Of E-Scooter Mobile App Perceptions On E-Scooter Use Intent, Rabindra Ratan, Kelsey Earle, Sonny Rosenthal, Vivian Hsueh Hua Chen, Andrew Gambiro, Gerard Goggin, Hallam Stevens, Benjamin Li, Kwan Min Lee
Research Collection College of Integrative Studies
The present research examines how perceptions of e-scooter mobile apps (i.e., a communication technology) influence intent to use e-scooters (i.e., a transportation technology) while considering other perceptions specific to e-scooters (ease of use, usefulness, safety, environmental impact, and enjoyment), context of use (geographic landscape), and demographic factors (age and sex). Results suggest mobile app perceived ease of use is associated with e-scooter use intent and this effect is mediated by e-scooter perceived usefulness, even when controlling for e-scooter perceived ease of use as well as other influential elements of e-scooter use. In addition to illustrating the importance of user experiences …
Real-Time Privacy Preserving Framework For Covid-19 Contact Tracing, Akashdeep Bhardwaj, Ahmed A. Mohamed, Manoj Kumar, Mohammed Alshehri, Ahed Abugabah
Real-Time Privacy Preserving Framework For Covid-19 Contact Tracing, Akashdeep Bhardwaj, Ahmed A. Mohamed, Manoj Kumar, Mohammed Alshehri, Ahed Abugabah
All Works
The recent unprecedented threat from COVID-19 and past epidemics, such as SARS, AIDS, and Ebola, has affected millions of people in multiple countries. Countries have shut their borders, and their nationals have been advised to self-quarantine. The variety of responses to the pandemic has given rise to data privacy concerns. Infection prevention and control strategies as well as disease control measures, especially real-time contact tracing for COVID-19, require the identification of people exposed to COVID-19. Such tracing frameworks use mobile apps and geolocations to trace individuals. However, while the motive may be well intended, the limitations and security issues associated …
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Automated Deprecated-Api Usage Update For Android Apps: How Far Are We?, Ferdian Thung, Stefanus Agus Haryono, Lucas Serrano, Gilles Muller, Julia Lawall, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang
Automated Deprecated-Api Usage Update For Android Apps: How Far Are We?, Ferdian Thung, Stefanus Agus Haryono, Lucas Serrano, Gilles Muller, Julia Lawall, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
As the Android API evolves, some API methods may be deprecated, to be eventually removed. App developers face the challenge of keeping their apps up-to-date, to ensure that the apps work in both older and newer Android versions. Currently, AppEvolve is the state-of-the-art approach to automate such updates, and it has been shown to be quite effective. Still, the number of experiments reported is moderate, involving only API usage updates in 41 usage locations. In this work, we replicate the evaluation of AppEvolve and assess whether its effectiveness is generalizable. Given the set of APIs on which AppEvolve has been …
Emerging App Issue Identification From User Feedback: Experience On Wechat, Cuiyun Gao, Wujie Zheng, Yuetang Deng, David Lo, Jichuan Zeng, Michael R. Lyu, Irwin King
Emerging App Issue Identification From User Feedback: Experience On Wechat, Cuiyun Gao, Wujie Zheng, Yuetang Deng, David Lo, Jichuan Zeng, Michael R. Lyu, Irwin King
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
It is vital for popular mobile apps with large numbers of users to release updates with rich features while keeping stable user experience. Timely and accurately locating emerging app issues can greatly help developers to maintain and update apps. User feedback (i.e., user reviews) is a crucial channel between app developers and users, delivering a stream of information about bugs and features that concern users. Methods to identify emerging issues based on user feedback have been proposed in the literature, however, their applicability in industry has not been explored. We apply the recent method IDEA to WeChat, a popular messenger …
Impacts Of Java Language Features On The Memory Performances Of Android Apps, Yoonsik Cheon, Adriana Escobar De La Torre
Impacts Of Java Language Features On The Memory Performances Of Android Apps, Yoonsik Cheon, Adriana Escobar De La Torre
Departmental Technical Reports (CS)
Android apps are written in Java, but unlike Java applications they are resource-constrained in storage capacity and battery lifetime. In this document, we perform an experiment to measure quantitatively the impact of Java language and standard API features on the memory efficiency of Android apps. We focus on garbage collection because it is a critical process for performance affecting user experience. We learned that even Java language constructs and standard application programming interfaces (APIs) may be a source of a performance problem causing a significant memory overhead for Android apps. Any critical section of code needs to be scrutinized on …
Quote Hub, Maheshbabu Chellu, Pranav Gopal Reddy Gundra, Rohit Satpute, Mohammed Ateeq Uddin
Quote Hub, Maheshbabu Chellu, Pranav Gopal Reddy Gundra, Rohit Satpute, Mohammed Ateeq Uddin
All Capstone Projects
Today Mobile application has made a drastic change in present world. As every individual can complete the work by just working with the application without going anywhere. It’s hard to imagine the world without Mobile Application which made easy for individuals in both professional and social means. In mobile applications there are two types. They are
- Native Applications
- Hybrid Applications
Native Applications: These are applications which are not compatible in other Operating Systems.
Hybrid Applications: These are applications which are compatible in other Operating Systems.
Quotehub is a native application and works only on Android. In this application a user …
Nature Quotes, Vivek Reddy Gayam, Swathi Janagam, Ashok Kumar Mamidi
Nature Quotes, Vivek Reddy Gayam, Swathi Janagam, Ashok Kumar Mamidi
All Capstone Projects
Recent days an increasing number of mobile applications and its uploading of photos/images shows that normal in every mobile application, so here is the latest idea we come up with an image/photo uploading with some quotation display on top of the image/photo from the selection of predefined feature quote data bank, and also we can add some user defined inspirational quotes to data bank for further usage and this will be like displaying of photos in slide show manner based on user setup.
In this paper, we present an automatic approach that first aligns the photos and displays to the …
Fast Nearest Neighbor Search With Keywords, Ramu Anthati, Santosh Aditya Kokku, Tejaswini Vodapally
Fast Nearest Neighbor Search With Keywords, Ramu Anthati, Santosh Aditya Kokku, Tejaswini Vodapally
All Capstone Projects
Conventional spatial queries, such as range search and nearest neighbor retrieval, involve only conditions on objects’ geometric properties. Today, many modern applications call for novel forms of queries that aim to find objects satisfying both a spatial predicate, and a predicate on their associated texts. For example, instead of considering all the restaurants, a nearest neighbor query would instead ask for the restaurant that is the closest among those whose menus contain “steak, spaghetti, brandy” all at the same time. Currently the best solution to such queries is based on the IR2-tree, which, as shown in this paper, has a …
Enabling Trustworthy Service Evaluation In Service-Oriented Mobile Social Network, Krishna Chaitanya Devabhakthini, Karthik Konda, Shravan Sydugari
Enabling Trustworthy Service Evaluation In Service-Oriented Mobile Social Network, Krishna Chaitanya Devabhakthini, Karthik Konda, Shravan Sydugari
All Capstone Projects
We propose a Trustworthy Service Evaluation (TSE) system to enable users to share service reviews inservice-oriented mobile social networks (S-MSNs). Each service provider independently maintains a TSE for itself, which collects andstores users’ reviews about its services without requiring any third trusted authority. The service reviews can then be made available tointerested users in making wise service selection decisions. It identify three unique service review attacks, i.e., linkability, rejection, and modification attacks, and develop sophisticated security mechanisms for the TSE to deal with these attacks. Specifically, the basicTSE (bTSE) enables users to distributedly and cooperatively submit their reviews in an …
Using Cognitive Load Theory To Select An Environment For Teaching Mobile Apps Development, Raina Mason, Graham Cooper, Simon, Barry Wilks
Using Cognitive Load Theory To Select An Environment For Teaching Mobile Apps Development, Raina Mason, Graham Cooper, Simon, Barry Wilks
Raina Mason
After considering a number of environments for the development of apps for mobile devices, we have evaluated five in terms of their suitability for students early in their programming study. For some of the evaluation we devised an evaluation scheme based on the principles of cognitive load theory to assess the relative ease or difficulty of learning and using each environment. After briefly presenting the scheme, we discuss our results, including our findings about which mobile apps development environments appear to show most promise for early-level programming students.
Ecs: Educational Communication System, Nasmah Alnaimi
Ecs: Educational Communication System, Nasmah Alnaimi
EWU Masters Thesis Collection
"The characteristics of school organizations and their reactions to change are critical to success in educational reform and necessary to the health of an organization and the well-being of its members. Organizational change, in order to be effective and sustainable, can use technology but it must also accommodate the need to simplify complexity in schools. Organizing student attendance, current grade status and school bus information, such as between the school and bus stops, on field trips or traveling to other activities outside of school, including sporting events, will ensure that parents know their kids are safe and physically accounted for …
A Farm Management Information System With Task-Specific, Collaborative Mobile Apps And Cloud Storage Services, Jonathan Tyler Welte
A Farm Management Information System With Task-Specific, Collaborative Mobile Apps And Cloud Storage Services, Jonathan Tyler Welte
Open Access Theses
Modern production agriculture is beginning to advance beyond deterministic, scheduled operations between relatively few people to larger scale, information-driven efficiency in order to respond to the challenges of field variability and meet the needs of a growing population. Since no two farms are the same with respect to information and management structure, a specialized farm management information system (FMIS) which is tailored to the realities on the ground of individual farms is likely to be more effective than generalized FMIS available today.
This thesis presents the design of a FMIS using proven user-centered design principles. This approach resulted in the …
Teaching And Assessing Programming Fundamentals For Non Majors With Visual Programming, William L. Honig
Teaching And Assessing Programming Fundamentals For Non Majors With Visual Programming, William L. Honig
William L Honig
Visual programming tools and mobile device applications are a natural tool to engage university students; but, are they effective in teaching quantitative thinking skills to non computer science majors? Answering this question can be based on careful assessment of the learning outcomes.
This paper reports the results from teaching over 100 students mobile app development with App Inventor in a university core course. Results were measured using an assessment process motivated by Bloom’s Taxonomy that included student self assessment, ratings by instructors, and comparisons of the two results. The categories in the assessment were mapped to specific levels of skills …