In this paper, we describe an automated technique for estimating power consumption by computers in buildings by processing visual imagery collected during a walkthrough of the building. This is an important problem since desktop and laptops are the largest contributors to electricity consumption in most large commercial buildings. The images used for estimation are obtained by a backpack equipp...

Handheld devices such as mobile phones and tablet computers have become widespread with thousands of available software applications. Recently, handhelds are being proposed as part of medical imaging solutions, especially in emergency medicine, where immediate consultation is required. However, handheld devices differ significantly from medical workstation displays in terms of display character...

Mobile technology is changing so fast, with new products being introduced daily, that any review of specific devices will rapidly be so out of date as to be unhelpful. Thus, this review focuses on general classes of device, with examples of manufacturers and machines for illustration only. There is a major convergence of technology in progress, which some view as leading towards single devices ...

Communicators are small handheld devices that combine the features of PDAs and palmtop computers with those of telephones. They are widely believed to be the next big wave of devices to gain market popularity with projected market penetration exceeding that of conventional desktop computers by more than an order of magnitude. Communicators pose special challenges to the design of user interface...

This paper reports on the Transterpreter: a virtual machine for executing the Transputer instruction set. This interpreter is a small, portable, efficient and extensible run-time. It is intended to be easily ported to handheld computers, mobile phones, and other embedded contexts. In striving for this level of portability, occam programs compiled to Transputer byte-code can currently be run on ...

We have developed a portable library for automated detection of melanoma termed SkinScan© that can be used on smartphones and other handheld devices. Compared to desktop computers, embedded processors have limited processing speed, memory, and power, but they have the advantage of portability and low cost. In this study we explored the feasibility of running a sophisticated application for auto...

With the increasing adoption of handheld computers and their integration in our daily life, mobile computing is becoming an important component of existing computing environments. The new forms of interaction made possible by mobile computing pose new challenges for the design of pervasive computing environments aimed at seamlessly integrating heterogeneous devices. Among these devices, handhel...

On-line access to patient clinical records from pocket and hand-held or tablet computers, will be an useful tool for health care professionals and a valuable complement to other medical applications if information delivery and access information systems are designed with handheld computers in mind. In this paper we present and discuss some partial results of two different research projects: SIN...

Handheld computers are increasingly being used by hospital workers. With the integration of wireless networks into hospital information systems, handheld computers can provide the basis for a pervasive computing hospital environment; to develop this designers need empirical information to understand how hospital workers interact with information while moving around. To characterise the medical ...

BACKGROUND Handheld computers for data collection (HCDC) and management have become increasingly common in health research. However, current knowledge about the use of HCDC in health research in China is very limited. In this study, we administered a survey to a hard-to-reach population in China using HCDC and assessed the acceptability and adoption of HCDC in China. METHODS Handheld computer...