Structural Relationships Among Parents’ Media Literacy, Smart-Media Mediation, Preschoolers’ Smart-Media Usage Time, and Social Competence

Smart Media Management

RELIABLE SHOT DETECTION. A shot is commonly defined as the uninterrupted recording of an event or locale. Any video sequence in this world consists of one or more shots concatenated by some kind of transition effects. Therefore, shots are generally considered as the elementary units constituting a video. Detecting shot boundaries thus means recovering those elementary video units, which in turn...

Media literacy for clinicians and parents.

Families and children are in the midst of a media revolution. Television, Internet access, instant messaging, cell phones, and interactive video games are delivering more information for more hours than ever in history. Exposure is occurring at younger and younger ages, often without parental oversight or interpretation. The impact on children is just beginning to be studied. Does media exposur...

Mining human mobility data and social media for smart services

Leveraging Social Media and IoT to Bootstrap Smart Environments

As we move towards an era of Smart Environments, mixed technological and social solutions must be examined to continue to allow users some control over their environment. Realisations of Smart Environments such as Smart Cities and Smart Buildings bring the promise of an intelligently managed space that maximises the requirements of the user while minimising resources. Our approach is to create ...

Social Media Text Processing and Semantic Analysis for Smart Cities

With the rise of Social Media, people obtain and share information almost instantly on a 24/7 basis. Many research areas have tried to gain valuable insights from these large volumes of freely available user generated content. The research areas of intelligent transportation systems and smart cities are no exception. However, extracting meaningful and actionable knowledge from user generated co...