Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good

Name: Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good | Third International Conference, GOODTECHS 2017, Pisa, Italy, November 29-30, 2017, Proceedings
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Third International Conference, GOODTECHS 2017, Pisa, Italy, November 29-30, 2017, Proceedings

Barbara Guidi Laura Ricci Carlos Calafate Ombretta Gaggi Johann Marquez-Barja(Editor)

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Published on 2. March 2018

XII, 396 pages

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Intro
Preface
Organization
Contents
Designing a Smart Ring and a Smartphone Application to Help Monitor, Manage and Live Better with the Effects of Raynaud's Phenomenon
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Raynaud's Phenomenon
2.1 Benefits of Monitoring Raynaud's
3 Related Work
3.1 Related Projects
4 Methodology, Design and Prototyping
4.1 Methodology
4.2 Design and Prototyping
5 Evaluation and Results
6 Conclusion and Future Work
References
Following the Cuckoo Sound: A Responsive Floor to Train Blind Children to Avoid Veering
1 Introduction
1.1 Veering
1.2 An Anti-veering Training Tool for Blind Children
2 Following the Cuckoo Sound
2.1 Sound Design and Game Elements
2.2 System Architecture
3 Assessment
3.1 Subjects
3.2 Procedure
3.3 Method
3.4 Results
3.5 Qualitative Evaluation
4 Conclusion
References
Statistical Features for Objects Localization with Passive RFID in Smart Homes
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Methodology
3.1 Smart Home
3.2 Design of Qualitative Zones
3.3 Datasets
3.4 Statistical Features
4 Experiments and Results
4.1 The Impacts of Features
4.2 The Impacts of Windowing
5 Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Living with Smartwatches and Pedometers: The Intergenerational Gap in Internal and External Contexts
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Study
4 Results
5 Discussion and Conclusion
Acknowledgement
References
mHealth Platform for the Delivery of Rehabilitation and Physical Exercise at Home for Parkinson's Disease Patients
1 Introduction
2 Materials and Methods
2.1 Overall Architecture
2.2 Designing Procedure
3 Results
3.1 Sensor System
3.2 Mobile Application
3.3 Therapist Website
4 Conclusions
References
Context-Aware Recommendations for Sustainable Wardrobes
1 Introduction
2 Contextual Models
2.1 Usage-Aware
2.2 Taste-Aware
2.3 Season-Aware
3 Semantic Content-Based Recommender System
3.1 Vector Space Model
3.2 Semantic Item Representation
4 Experiments
4.1 Dataset
4.2 Evaluation Method
4.3 Results
5 Related Work
6 Discussion
7 Conclusion and Future Work
References
Games, Assessment and Rehabilitation: When Serious Games Support Cognitive Development in Children with Cerebral Visual Impairment
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Strengths and Rehabilitation Perspectives of Serious Games Assessment Tools: The Example of a 4 Years Old Child with Marked CVI
2.1 Results
3 Going Mobile for Ecological Intensive Rehabilitation/Practice
4 Conclusions
References
How Blind People Can Manage a Remote Control System: A Case Study
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 The Study
3.1 Case Study: The Fibaro System
4 Results and Suggestions
5 Conclusions
References
ALMA: An Indoor Localization and Navigation System for the Elderly
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Overview and Architecture of the System
3 Related Works
4 Localization Module
5 Personal Navigation Assistant
6 Experimental Session
7 Conclusions and Future Work
Acknowledgments
References
Exergames in Individuals with Down Syndrome: A Performance Comparison Between Children and Adolescents
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Methods
3.1 Instruments
3.2 Research Procedure
3.3 Data Collection
3.4 Data Analysis
4 Results
5 Discussion
6 Conclusions and Future Work
Acknowledgements
References
Digital Invasions Within Cultural Heritage: Social Media and Crowdsourcing
1 Introduction
2 Background and Related Work
3 Our Approach
4 Implementation
5 Results and Discussion
6 Conclusions and Future Works
References
Smart Mobility and Sensing: Case Studies Based on a Bike Information Gathering Architecture
1 Introduction
2 Cloud Architecture
3 Personas
3.1 Wei
3.2 Sven
3.3 Elena
4 Travel Scenarios
4.1 Wei
4.2 Sven
4.3 Elena
5 Conclusions
References
3D Interaction with Mouse-Keyboard, Gamepad and Leap Motion: A Comparative Study
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Designing the 3D Experience
4 The Comparative Study
4.1 Results
5 Discussion and Conclusion
References
Discovering the City: Crowdsourcing and Personalized Urban Paths Across Cultural Heritage
1 Introduction
2 The Preferences Layer Architecture
2.1 Request Phase
2.2 Points of Interest Search
2.3 Routing Trip Elaboration
2.4 User Trip
2.5 Crowdsourcing Re-feed
3 A Prototype
3.1 Personas and Scenarios
4 Conclusions
References
Privacy Preserving Multidimensional Profiling
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Privacy Risk Assessment Framework
4 Privacy Preserving Multidimensional Profiling
4.1 Promotion Service Based on Recurrent Events
5 Experiments
5.1 Datasets Presentation
5.2 Privacy Analysis
6 Conclusion
References
Fall Detection with Kinect in Top View: Preliminary Features Analysis and Characterization
1 Introduction and Background
2 Materials and Methods
2.1 The Fall Detection Algorithm
2.2 Experimental Protocol
3 Results and Discussion
4 Conclusion
References
How to Spread Kindness: Effects of Rewarding Elements Within a Persuasive Application to Foster Prosocial Behavior
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Persuasion and Prosocial Behavior
3 A Persuasive Application to Foster Prosocial Behavior
3.1 Features of the Good Deeds-App
4 Derivation of Hypotheses
5 Method and Sample
5.1 Variables
6 Results
6.1 Descriptive Results
6.2 Hypotheses Testing
7 Discussion
8 Conclusion
References
Theorizing Gamified Virtual Reality Approach to Overcome Fear of Height
1 Introduction
1.1 VR Exposure Therapy
2 Gamification Theory
3 Virtual Reality Game
3.1 Game Levels
4 Method
4.1 Results and Analysis
5 Conclusion
References
The Fractal Dimension of Music: Geography, Popularity and Sentiment Analysis
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Datasets and Preprocessing
4 The Music Scene Fractal Structure
5 Genres, Popularity and Followers
6 Sentiment Analysis
7 Conclusion
References
Usable and Accessible Tourism Websites for Children: A Case Study of a Naturalistic Oasis
1 Introduction
2 Website Usability and Accessibility
2.1 State of Art
2.2 Related Work and Guidelines
3 Our Case Study: A Naturalistic Oasis
4 Experimental Results
5 Conclusion and Future Challenges
References
Parkinson's Disease Detection from Speech Using Convolutional Neural Networks
1 Introduction
2 Data
3 Methodology
3.1 Input Feature Maps
3.2 Convolutional Neural Network
4 Experimental Investigations
5 Conclusions
References
How to Increase Boys' Engagement in Reading Mandatory Poems in the Gymnasium: Homer's "The Odyssey" as Transmedia Storytelling with the Cyclopeia Narrative as a Computer Game
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Engaging Transmedia Storytelling
3 Methods
3.1 Formative Evaluation
3.2 Interviews with Classical Civilization Teachers
4 Design and Implementation
5 Findings
5.1 Engagement
5.2 Effectiveness
6 Conclusion
References
Analysis of Users Behaviour from a Movie Preferences Perspective
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
2.1 Current DOSNs
2.2 Homophily in OSNs
3 Homophily as a Strategy for the DOSNs' Issues
4 The Facebook Dataset
4.1 Data Preprocessing
5 Analysis of the Dataset
5.1 Movie Genres
5.2 Evaluation of the Homophily in Ego Networks
6 Conclusion and Future Works
References
Let's Cook: An Augmented Reality System Towards Developing Cooking Skills for Children with Cognitive Impairments
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 The CocinAR System
4 The Let's Cook Game
5 Evaluation
6 Conclusions and Future Work
Acknowledgments
References
GHio-Ca: An Android Application for Automatic Image Classification
1 Introduction
2 Background and Related Work
3 GHio-Ca
3.1 Architectural Design
3.2 Recognition Services
4 Results
4.1 Graphical Analysis
5 Conclusion
References
The Analysis of Influential Users Evolution in Microblogging Social Networks
1 Introduction
2 DRG Temporal Graphs
3 Data Sets
4 Experimentation
5 Discussion and Conclusions
References
Dynamics of Emotions and Relations in a Facebook Group of Patients with Hidradenitis Suppurativa
1 Introduction
2 Related Works
3 Methodology
3.1 Creating the Training Set
3.2 Pre-processing and Features Selection
3.3 Classification
3.4 Optimizing Classifiers's Parameters
4 Results
4.1 Distribution of Emotions
4.2 Social Network Analysis
4.3 Friendship Relations and Expressed Emotions
4.4 Changes of Emotions During the Years
5 Conclusion
References
OOPP: Tame the Design of Simple Object-Oriented Applications with Graphical Blocks
1 Introduction
2 Related Works
3 Object Oriented Puzzle Programming
3.1 The Blockly Framework
3.2 OOPP: The Working Environment
3.3 Java-Based Projects
4 Evaluation
4.1 Future Developments
5 Conclusions
References
Blexer-med: A Medical Web Platform for Administrating Full Play Therapeutic Exergames
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 "Blexer-med": Proposed System Architecture
3 Data Exchange for Game Configuration and Observation of Results
4 Example Use Case
5 Conclusions and Future Work
Acknowledgements
References
Blexer - Full Play Therapeutic Blender Exergames for People with Physical Impairments
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 "Blexer" System Architecture
3 Full Play Therapeutic Exergame: "Phiby's Adventures"
3.1 Requirements
3.2 Gameplay, Character, Story, World and Mechanics
3.3 Technical Description of the Exercises
4 Conclusions and Future Work
Acknowledgements
References
Smart City and Images: The Use of Image Hashtags to Get Insights on Citizens
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Image Caption Analysis
4 Experimental Analysis
5 Conclusions
References
The Use of Hashtags in TV-Shows: Analysis and Guidelines
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Experimental Investigation
3.1 The Use of Official Hashtags
3.2 Conversations Around the Official Hashtags
4 Guidelines
5 Conclusions
References
A Comparison of a Smartphone App and a Wrist-Worn Fitness Tracker for Self-monitoring of Physical Activity by Older and Younger Users
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Method
2.1 Participants
2.2 Devices
2.3 Materials and Tasks
2.4 Procedure
3 Results
3.1 Step Counts
3.2 Usability Tasks and Usability Ratings
4 Discussion
References
On the Equivalence Between Community Discovery and Clustering
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Problem Definition
4 Methods
4.1 Community Discovery Methods
4.2 Transactional Clustering Methods
4.3 On the Methods Equivalence
5 Experiments
5.1 Datasets
5.2 Evaluation Measures
5.3 Results
6 Conclusion
References
Recognizing Residents and Tourists with Retail Data Using Shopping Profiles
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Residents and Tourists Recognition
4 Case Study
5 Conclusion
References
Advanced Interaction Technologies for Accessible and Engaging Cultural Heritage
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 UniBSArt4All
3.1 UniBSArt4All App
3.2 UniBSArt4All CMS
4 Preliminary Experimentation
5 Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Supporting Young High-Functioning ASD Individuals in Learning the Concept of Money
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 The Games
3 Evaluation
4 Conclusions and Future Work
References
PdUC-D: A Discretized UAV Guidance System for Air Pollution Monitoring Tasks
1 Introduction
2 PdUC-D: Discretized Pollution-Driven UAV Control Protocol
3 Validation
4 Conclusions and Future Work
References
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