Dietary assessment, while traditionally based on pen-and-paper, is rapidly moving towards automatic approaches. This study describes an Australian automatic food record method and its prototype for dietary assessment via the use of a mobile phone and techniques of image processing and pattern recognition. Common visual features including scale invariant feature transformation (SIFT), local bina...

This study explored the extent to which schoolchildren purchased precut and bagged fruits and vegetables from a mobile fruit vendor (frutero). During 14 days in fall 2008, a frutero sold fruits and vegetables at the entrance of an elementary school; 59% of the frutero's 233 consumers of 248 items were elementary-school students. With each successive day, an average of 1 additional bag of fruits...

The present paper has reported a case study of the “Electronic Doctor’s Bag” which is a telemedical tool for home-visit medical services using the mobile communications environment in an isolated island and a disaster area hit by the tsunami. Clinical trials performed for 20 patients around a clinic in Miyako Island indicated that the communication functions of the proposed system were highly e...

This paper presents three efforts to support children engaged in mobile and nomadic learning both in and out of the classroom. The HyConExplorer is a mobile, context-aware hypermedia system developed to help pupils access and produce digital content during project work in the field. The eBag is the equivalent of an electronic school bag and provides pupils access to their digital materials thro...

Solar energy, the use and importance of which is increasing day by day, stands out among renewable energy sources with many applications. In this study, application solar powered orthopedic back support backpack presented a unique photovoltaic module structure. The 2x12W panel system mounted on rail arrangement optional provided according to user's preference. Since there will be additional equ...

The BOA system is a mobile pipe-external robotic crawler used to remotely strip and bag asbestos-containing lagging and insulation materials (ACLIM) from various diameter pipes in (primarily) industrial installations. Steam and process lines within the DOE weapons complex warrant the use of a remote device due to the high labor costs and high level of radioactive contamination, making manual re...

A mobile phone is getting smarter by employing a sensor and awareness of various contexts about a user and the terminal itself. In this paper, we deal with 9 storing positions of a smartphone on the body as a context of a device itself and a user: 1) around the neck (hanging), 2) chest pocket, 3) jacket pocket (side), 4) front pocket of trousers, 5) back pocket of trousers, 6) backpack, 7) hand...