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Poster: Air Quality Friendly Route Recommendation System, Savina Singla, Divya Bansal, Archan Misra
Poster: Air Quality Friendly Route Recommendation System, Savina Singla, Divya Bansal, Archan Misra
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
To model the overall personal inhalation of hazardous gases through the air (both indoor and outdoor) by an individual, provide air quality friendly route recommendations, thus raising the overall quality of urban movement and living healthy life.
Demo: Smartwatch Based Shopping Gesture Recognition, Meeralakshmi Radhakrishnan, Sharanya Eswaran, Sougata Sen, Vigneshwaran Subbaraju, Archan Misra, Rajesh Krishna Balan
Demo: Smartwatch Based Shopping Gesture Recognition, Meeralakshmi Radhakrishnan, Sharanya Eswaran, Sougata Sen, Vigneshwaran Subbaraju, Archan Misra, Rajesh Krishna Balan
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
In the current retail segment, the retail store owners are keen to understand the browsing behavior and purchase pattern of the shoppers inside the physical stores. Profiling the behavior of the shopper is key to success for any marketing strategies that can optimize or personalize shopping-related services in real-time. We envision that exploiting the knowledge of real-time behavior of shopper’s in-store activities enables novel applications such as: (a) targeted advertising or recommendations: based on longer term shopper profiles, (b) proactive retail help to assist the shoppers who are confused in choosing between two items, (c) smart reminders that can remind …
Adaptable Key-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption With Time Interval, Siqi Ma, Junzuo Lai, Deng, Robert H., Xuhua Ding
Adaptable Key-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption With Time Interval, Siqi Ma, Junzuo Lai, Deng, Robert H., Xuhua Ding
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
In this paper, we introduce a new cryptographic primitive: adaptable KP-ABE with time interval (KP-TIABE), which is an extension of key-policy attribute-based encryption (KP-ABE). Adaptable KP-TIABE specifies a decryption time interval for every ciphertext such that the ciphertext can only be decrypted within this time interval. To be more flexible, the decryption time interval associated with a ciphertext can be adjusted on demand by a semi-trusted server. We propose a formal model for adaptable KP-TIABE, present a concrete adaptable KP-TIABE scheme and prove its security under the security model.
Value-Inspired Elderly Care Service Design For Aging-In-Place, Na Liu, Sandeep Purao, Hwee-Pink Tan
Value-Inspired Elderly Care Service Design For Aging-In-Place, Na Liu, Sandeep Purao, Hwee-Pink Tan
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Most current projects aimed at in-home monitoring for the elderly appear to focus on demonstrating technical feasibility and ensuring safety. In doing so, they often overlook the complexity of the interactions between the elderly and the caregivers. This study explores this complexity by adopting a value-inspired design perspective. Following an action design method, we describe the (re)design of the system and service protocol for an elderly-home monitoring effort. The work requires that we leverage the capabilities (of the technological infrastructure system as well as the service providers) to reconcile the values held by the participants (the elderly and their caregivers). …
Collective Rumor Correction On The Death Hoax Of A Political Figure In Social Media, Alton Y. K. Chua, Sin-Mei Cheah, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh, Ee-Peng Lim
Collective Rumor Correction On The Death Hoax Of A Political Figure In Social Media, Alton Y. K. Chua, Sin-Mei Cheah, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh, Ee-Peng Lim
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Conversations on social media networks that discuss a crisis incident as it unfolds have become a norm in recent years. Left to its own devices, such conversations could quickly degenerate into rumor mills. Little research has thus far examined the correction of rumors on social media. Using the third person effect as a theoretical underpinning, we developed a model of collective rumor correction on social media based on an incident surrounding the death hoax of a political figure. Tweets from Twitter were collected and analyzed for the period when a spike of circulating rumors speculating the demise of Singapore's first …
Fusing Wifi And Video Sensing For Accurate Group Detection In Indoor Spaces, Kasthuri Jayarajah, Zaman Lantra, Archan Misra
Fusing Wifi And Video Sensing For Accurate Group Detection In Indoor Spaces, Kasthuri Jayarajah, Zaman Lantra, Archan Misra
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Understanding one's group context in indoor spaces is useful for many reasons - e.g., at a shopping mall, knowing a customer's group context can help in offering context-specific incentives, or estimating taxi demand for customers exiting the mall. Group detection and monitoring using WiFi-based indoor location traces fails when users are invisible (either because they don't carry smartphones, or because their WiFi is turned OFF) or when location tracking is inaccurate. In this paper, we propose a multi-modal group detection system that fuses two independent modes: video and WiFi, for detecting groups with low latency and high accuracy. We present …
Indoor Location Error-Detection Via Crowdsourced Multi-Dimensional Mobile Data, Savina Singla, Archan Misra
Indoor Location Error-Detection Via Crowdsourced Multi-Dimensional Mobile Data, Savina Singla, Archan Misra
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
We explore the use of multi-dimensional mobile sensing data as a means of identifying errors in one or more of those data streams. More specifically, we look at the possibility of identifying indoor locations with likely incorrect/stale Wi-Fi fingerprints, by using concurrent readings from Wi-Fi and barometer sensors from a collection of mobile devices. Our key contribution is a novel two-step process: (i) using longitudinal, crowd-sourced readings of (possibly incorrect) Wi-Fi location estimates to statistically estimate the barometer calibration offset of individual mobile devices, and (ii) then, using such offset-corrected barometer readings from devices (that are supposedly collocated) to identify …
Cdrep: Automatic Repair Of Cryptographic-Misuses In Android Applications, Siqi Ma, David Lo, Teng Li, Robert H. Deng
Cdrep: Automatic Repair Of Cryptographic-Misuses In Android Applications, Siqi Ma, David Lo, Teng Li, Robert H. Deng
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Cryptography is increasingly being used in mobile applications to provide various security services; from user authentication, data privacy, to secure communications. However, there are plenty of mistakes that developers could accidentally make when using cryptography in their mobile apps and such mistakes can lead to a false sense of security. Recent research efforts indeed show that a significant portion of mobile apps in both Android and iOS platforms misused cryptographic APIs. In this paper, we present CDRep, a tool for automatically repairing cryptographic misuse defects in Android apps. We classify such defects into seven types and manually assemble the corresponding …
Deepsense: A Gpu-Based Deep Convolutional Neural Network Framework On Commodity Mobile Devices, Huynh Nguyen Loc, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Youngki Lee
Deepsense: A Gpu-Based Deep Convolutional Neural Network Framework On Commodity Mobile Devices, Huynh Nguyen Loc, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Youngki Lee
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Recently, a branch of machine learning algorithms called deep learning gained huge attention to boost up accuracy of a variety of sensing applications. However, execution of deep learning algorithm such as convolutional neural network on mobile processor is non-trivial due to intensive computational requirements. In this paper, we present our early design of DeepSense - a mobile GPU-based deep convolutional neural network (CNN) framework. For its design, we first explored the differences between server-class and mobile-class GPUs, and studied effectiveness of various optimization strategies such as branch divergence elimination and memory vectorization. Our results show that DeepSense is able to …
Demo: Drumming Application Using Commodity Wearable Devices, Bharat Dwivedi, Archan Misra, Youngki Lee
Demo: Drumming Application Using Commodity Wearable Devices, Bharat Dwivedi, Archan Misra, Youngki Lee
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
We aim to develop a drumming application in which individual can play drums using multiple wearable and mobile devices. Our vision is to tap out different rythms in the air using smart watches as a virtual drum stick and smart phone would act as a drum kit. Same user interface can be visualized in smart glasses. Here, our prime target is to use multiple commodity wearable devices (non-commodity i.e. Myo arm band) and smart phones for recognizing new (or same type of here) types of multi limb gestural context and building an adaptive application interface and allow such gesture recognition …
Demo: Gpu-Based Image Recognition And Object Detection On Commodity Mobile Devices, Loc Nguyen Huynh, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Youngki Lee
Demo: Gpu-Based Image Recognition And Object Detection On Commodity Mobile Devices, Loc Nguyen Huynh, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Youngki Lee
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
In this demo, we show that it is feasible to execute CNN for vision sensing tasks directly on mobile devices by leveraging integrated GPU. We propose our design of DeepSense framework based on OpenCL to execute deep learning algorithms in energy-efficient and fast manner.
Demo: Multi-Device Gestural Interfaces, Tran Huy Vu, Youngki Lee, Archan Misra
Demo: Multi-Device Gestural Interfaces, Tran Huy Vu, Youngki Lee, Archan Misra
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Varieties of wearable devices such as smart watches, Virtual/Augmented Reality devices (AR/VR) are much more affordable with interesting capabilities. In our vision, a person may use more than one devices at a time, and they form an eco-system of wearable devices. Therefore, we aim to build a system where an application expands its input and output among different devices, and adapts its input/output stream for different contexts.
Iccdetector: Icc-Based Malware Detection On Android, Xu Ke, Yingjiu Li, Robert H. Deng
Iccdetector: Icc-Based Malware Detection On Android, Xu Ke, Yingjiu Li, Robert H. Deng
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Most existing mobile malware detection methods (e.g., Kirin and DroidMat) are designed based on the resources required by malwares (e.g., permissions, application programming interface (API) calls, and system calls). These methods capture the interactions between mobile apps and Android system, but ignore the communications among components within or cross application boundaries. As a consequence, the majority of the existing methods are less effective in identifying many typical malwares, which require a few or no suspicious resources, but leverage on inter-component communication (ICC) mechanism when launching stealthy attacks. To address this challenge, we propose a new malware detection method, named ICCDetector. …
Livelabs: Building In-Situ Mobile Sensing And Behavioural Experimentation Testbeds, Kasthuri Jayarajah, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Meera Radhakrishnan, Archan Misra, Youngki Lee
Livelabs: Building In-Situ Mobile Sensing And Behavioural Experimentation Testbeds, Kasthuri Jayarajah, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Meera Radhakrishnan, Archan Misra, Youngki Lee
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
In this paper, we present LiveLabs, a first-of-its-kind testbed that isdeployed across a university campus, convention centre, and resortisland and collects real-time attributes such as location, group contextetc., from hundreds of opt-in participants. These venues, data,and participants are then made available for running rich humancentricbehavioural experiments that could test new mobile sensinginfrastructure, applications, analytics, or more social-sciencetype hypotheses that influence and then observe actual user behaviour.We share case studies of how researchers from aroundthe world have and are using LiveLabs, and our experiences andlessons learned from building, maintaining, and expanding LiveLabsover the last three years.
Jasper: Sensing Gamers' Emotions Using Physiological Sensors, Sinh Huynh, Youngki Lee, Taiwoo Park, Rajesh Krishna Balan
Jasper: Sensing Gamers' Emotions Using Physiological Sensors, Sinh Huynh, Youngki Lee, Taiwoo Park, Rajesh Krishna Balan
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
This paper aims to develop a system that evaluates the emotional experience of gamers based on physiological changes. A within-subject experiment with 22 participants has been designed to investigate the effects of difficulty level and social playing mode on player emotions and to examine the correlation between each emotion and the physiological changes. We demonstrate the feasibility of using commodity wearable physiological sensing devices to recognize mobile gamer's emotion. Specifically, our system performs 3-level excitement classification at an accuracy of 77.38% and binary classification of happiness state at an accuracy of 73.21%. These classification results show the potential of using …
Small Scale Deployment Of Seat Occupancy Detectors, Nguyen Huy Hoang Huy, Gihan Hettiarachchi, Youngki Lee, Rajesh Krishna Balan
Small Scale Deployment Of Seat Occupancy Detectors, Nguyen Huy Hoang Huy, Gihan Hettiarachchi, Youngki Lee, Rajesh Krishna Balan
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
In this paper, we present the results of a small-scale field deployment of our capacitance-based seat occupancy detector. We deployed our sensors to 36 seats in our university library and measured the performance of our system over a period of 8 weeks. As part of this deployment, we had to tackle numerous real-world deployment issues such as hardware failure, variations in signal quality, and interference caused by multiple objects in near proximity. We present our overall system design, along with the modifications we made to tackle various real-world problems. Finally, we present the results of our deployment which showed that …
Designing And Comparing Multiple Portfolios Of Parameter Configurations For Online Algorithm Selection, Aldy Gunawan, Hoong Chuin Lau, Mustafa Misir
Designing And Comparing Multiple Portfolios Of Parameter Configurations For Online Algorithm Selection, Aldy Gunawan, Hoong Chuin Lau, Mustafa Misir
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Algorithm portfolios seek to determine an effective set of algorithms that can be used within an algorithm selection framework to solve problems. A limited number of these portfolio studies focus on generating different versions of a target algorithm using different parameter configurations. In this paper, we employ a Design of Experiments (DOE) approach to determine a promising range of values for each parameter of an algorithm. These ranges are further processed to determine a portfolio of parameter configurations, which would be used within two online Algorithm Selection approaches for solving different instances of a given combinatorial optimization problem effectively. We …
Strategic Planning For Setting Up Base Stations In Emergency Medical Systems, Supriyo Ghosh, Pradeep Varakantham
Strategic Planning For Setting Up Base Stations In Emergency Medical Systems, Supriyo Ghosh, Pradeep Varakantham
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Emergency Medical Systems (EMSs) are an important component of public health-care services. Improving infrastructure for EMS and specifically the construction of base stations at the ”right” locations to reduce response times is the main focus of this paper. This is a computationally challenging task because of the: (a) exponentially large action space arising from having to consider combinations of potential base locations, which themselves can be significant; and (b) direct impact on the performance of the ambulance allocation problem, where we decide allocation of ambulances to bases. We present an incremental greedy approach to discover the placement of bases that …
Robust Partial Order Schedules For Rcpsp/Max With Durational Uncertainty, Na Fu, Pradeep Varakantham, Hoong Chuin Lau
Robust Partial Order Schedules For Rcpsp/Max With Durational Uncertainty, Na Fu, Pradeep Varakantham, Hoong Chuin Lau
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
In this work, we consider RCPSP/max with durational uncertainty. We focus on computing robust Partial Order Schedules (or, in short POS) which can be executed with risk controlled feasibility and optimality, i.e., there is stochastic posteriori quality guarantee that the derived POS can be executed with all constraints honored and completion before robust makespan. To address this problem, we propose BACCHUS: a solution method on Benders Accelerated Cut Creation for Handling Uncertainty in Scheduling. In our proposed approach, we first give an MILP formulation for the deterministic RCPSP/max and partition the model into POS generation process and start time schedule …
User Behavior Mining In Microblogging, Tuan Anh Hoang
User Behavior Mining In Microblogging, Tuan Anh Hoang
Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)
This dissertation addresses the modeling of factors concerning microblogging users' content and behavior. We focus on two sets of factors. The first set includes behavioral factors of users and content items driving content propagation in microblogging. The second set consists of latent topics and communities of users as the users are engaged in content generation and behavior adoptions. These two sets of factors are extremely important in many applications, e.g., network monitoring and recommender systems. In the first part of this dissertation, we identify user virality, user susceptibility, and content virality as three behavioral factors that affect users' behaviors in …
Hci Testing In Laboratory Or Field Settings, Chuan-Hoo Tan, Austin Silva, Rich Lee, Kanliang Wang, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah
Hci Testing In Laboratory Or Field Settings, Chuan-Hoo Tan, Austin Silva, Rich Lee, Kanliang Wang, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
This paper presents perspectives from both academia and practice on how an HCI testing is to be conducted and the deliberations that go into the testing. HCI testing can be conducted in closed-door laboratory or in a field setting. While there is an increased interest in field testing of an HCI artifact, there is always an enduring concern over how to administer a field testing given that the testers will have less control over the course of testing. In this paper, we cover HCI testing deliberation as well as the operational issues of field testing, and conclude the paper with …
Patient Engagement In The Medical Facility Waiting Room Using Gamified Healthcare Information Delivery, Raheel Hassan, Nathan W. Twyman, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Keng Siau
Patient Engagement In The Medical Facility Waiting Room Using Gamified Healthcare Information Delivery, Raheel Hassan, Nathan W. Twyman, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Keng Siau
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
This study explores the proposition that medical facility waiting rooms are an opportune setting to engage with and educate patients while they are waiting for care. In collaboration with emergency department (ED) personnel, we developed ER Hero, a tablet-based application for waiting rooms that introduces patients to ED professionals and operations through mini-games and story-like interaction. We evaluated this prototype with human participants to determine how well it performed when compared to paper-based information disclosure presenting the same information. Participants using the application exhibited increased ED knowledge, decreased nervousness, and increased interest. The gamified application outperformed a paper-based approach on …
Smart Living For Elderly: Design And Human-Computer Interaction Considerations, Ranjana Sharma, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Kavya Sharma, Teja S. Katta, Natalie Pang, Alvin Yong
Smart Living For Elderly: Design And Human-Computer Interaction Considerations, Ranjana Sharma, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Kavya Sharma, Teja S. Katta, Natalie Pang, Alvin Yong
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
To address aging challenges, we examine the concept of smart living and its applications for the elderly. Smart living refers to improving quality of life by transforming environments to become more intelligent and adaptable to users. In this paper, we discuss how smart living applications can help to address the needs of the elderly, as well as the design and human-computer interaction considerations for such applications.
Professor Pang Hwee Hwa Appointed Dean Of Smu School Of Information Systems, Singapore Management University
Professor Pang Hwee Hwa Appointed Dean Of Smu School Of Information Systems, Singapore Management University
SMU Press Releases and News
The Singapore Management University (SMU) has announced today the appointment of Professor Pang Hwee Hwa as the next Dean of the SMU School of Information Systems (SIS) with effect from 1 July 2016 for a term of five years. Selected from a global pool of candidates after an extensive and rigorous global search which started in October 2015, Prof Pang’s strong commitment to research in information systems and a passion for excellence in education, make him the ideal candidate to lead the School of Information Systems.
Context-Aware Advertisement Recommendation For High-Speed Social News Feeding, Yuchen Li, Dongxiang Zhang, Ziquan Lan, Kian-Lee Tan
Context-Aware Advertisement Recommendation For High-Speed Social News Feeding, Yuchen Li, Dongxiang Zhang, Ziquan Lan, Kian-Lee Tan
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Social media advertising is a multi-billion dollar market and has become the major revenue source for Facebook and Twitter. To deliver ads to potentially interested users, these social network platforms learn a prediction model for each user based on their personal interests. However, as user interests often evolve slowly, the user may end up receiving repetitive ads. In this paper, we propose a context-aware advertising framework that takes into account the relatively static personal interests as well as the dynamic news feed from friends to drive growth in the ad click-through rate. To meet the real-time requirement, we first propose …
The Design Of Assistive Location-Based Technologies For People With Ambulatory Disabilities: A Formative Study, Kotaro Hara, Christine Chen, Jon E. Froehlich
The Design Of Assistive Location-Based Technologies For People With Ambulatory Disabilities: A Formative Study, Kotaro Hara, Christine Chen, Jon E. Froehlich
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In this paper, we investigate how people with mobility impairments assess and evaluate accessibility in the built environment and the role of current and emerging location-based technologies therein. We conducted a three-part formative study with 20 mobility impaired participants: a semi-structured interview (Part 1), a participatory design activity (Part 2), and a design probe activity (Part 3). Part 2 and 3 actively engaged our participants in exploring and designing the future of what we call assistive location-based technologies (ALTs) location-based technologies that specifically incorporate accessibility features to support navigating, searching, and exploring the physical world. Our Part 1 findings highlight …
Modeling Autobiographical Memory In Human-Like Autonomous Agents, Di Wang, Ah-Hwee Tan, Chunyan Miao
Modeling Autobiographical Memory In Human-Like Autonomous Agents, Di Wang, Ah-Hwee Tan, Chunyan Miao
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Although autobiographical memory is an important part of the human mind, there has been little effort on modeling autobiographical memory in autonomous agents. With the motivation of developing human-like intelligence, in this paper, we delineate our approach to enable an agent to maintain memories of its own and to wander in mind. Our model, named Autobiographical Memory-Adaptive Resonance Theory network (AM-ART), is designed to capture autobiographical memories, comprising pictorial snapshots of one’s life experiences together with the associated context, namely time, location, people, activity, and emotion. In terms of both network structure and dynamics, AM-ART coincides with the autobiographical memory …
#Greysanatomy Vs. #Yankees: Demographics And Hashtag Use On Twitter, Jisun An, Ingmar Weber
#Greysanatomy Vs. #Yankees: Demographics And Hashtag Use On Twitter, Jisun An, Ingmar Weber
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Demographics, in particular, gender, age, and race, are a key predictor of human behavior. Despite the significant effect that demographics plays, most scientific studies using online social media do not consider this factor, mainly due to the lack of such information. In this work, we use state-of-the-art face analysis software to infer gender, age, and race from profile images of 350K Twitter users from New York. For the period from November 1, 2014 to October 31, 2015, we study which hashtags are used by different demographic groups. Though we find considerable overlap for the most popular hashtags, there are also …
The Social Side Of Software Platform Ecosystems, Cleidson R. B. Da Souza, Fernando Figueira Filho, Müller Miranda, Renato Pina Ferreira, Christoph Treude, Leif Singer
The Social Side Of Software Platform Ecosystems, Cleidson R. B. Da Souza, Fernando Figueira Filho, Müller Miranda, Renato Pina Ferreira, Christoph Treude, Leif Singer
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Software ecosystems as a paradigm for large-scale software development encompass a complex mix of technical, business, and social aspects. While significant research has been conducted to understand both the technical and business aspects, the social aspects of software ecosystems are less well understood. To close this gap, this paper presents the results of an empirical study aimed at understanding the influence of social aspects on developers’ participation in software ecosystems. We conducted 25 interviews with mobile software developers and an online survey with 83 respondents from the mobile software development community. Our results point out a complex social system based …
Overcoming Open Source Project Entry Barriers With A Portal For Newcomers, Igor Steinmacher, Tayana U. Conte, Christoph Treude, Marco Aurélio Gerosa
Overcoming Open Source Project Entry Barriers With A Portal For Newcomers, Igor Steinmacher, Tayana U. Conte, Christoph Treude, Marco Aurélio Gerosa
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Community-based Open Source Software (OSS) projects are usually self-organized and dynamic, receiving contributions from distributed volunteers. Newcomer are important to the survival, long-term success, and continuity of these communities. However, newcomers face many barriers when making their first contribution to an OSS project, leading in many cases to dropouts. Therefore, a major challenge for OSS projects is to provide ways to support newcomers during their first contribution. In this paper, we propose and evaluate FLOSScoach, a portal created to support newcomers to OSS projects. FLOSScoach was designed based on a conceptual model of barriers created in our previous work. To …