A J2ME Mobile Application for Normal and Abnormal ECG Rhythm Analysis

2010 ◽  
pp. 86-108
Author(s):  
Qiang Fang ◽  
Xiaoyun Huang ◽  
Shuenn-Yuh Lee
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Premature Deaths ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Analysis System ◽  
Rescue Procedures

Cardiovascular disease has become the world’s number one killer. The prevalence of cardiovascular disease has caused many unnecessary premature deaths and imposed substantial burden to healthcare systems. Many continuous heart monitoring systems have been proposed with the aim to issue early stage warning for a possible forthcoming heart attack by utilising advanced information and communication technologies. Nevertheless, there is still a significant gap between the usability and reliability of those systems and the requirements from medical practitioners. This chapter presents our recent development of a mobile phone based ECG real-time intelligent analysis system. By fully employing the computational power of a mobile phone, the system provides local intelligence for ECG R wave detection, PQRS signature identification and segmentation, and arrhythmia classification. Because those processing can be performed on realtime, an early status warning can be issued promptly to initiate further rescue procedures. As an application of e-commerce in healthcare, a telecaridiology system like this is of great significance to support chronic cardiovascular disease patients.

Understanding women’s mobile phone use in rural Kenya: An affordance-based approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Wyche ◽  
Nightingale Simiyu ◽  
Martha E. Othieno
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Rural Kenya ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Definition Of

Increases in mobile phone ownership and Internet access throughout Africa continue to motivate initiatives to use information and communication technologies (ICTs)—in particular, mobile phones—to address long-standing socioeconomic problems in the “developing world.” While it is generally recognized that mobile phones may help to address these problems by providing pertinent information, less widely known is exactly how (and if) a handset’s human–computer interface—that is, its software and hardware design—supports this form of communication. The concept of “affordances” has long been used to answer such questions. In this paper, we use Hartson’s definition of affordances to qualitatively investigate rural Kenyan women’s interactions with their mobile phones. Our detailed analysis provides empirically grounded answers to questions about the cognitive, physical, and sensory affordances of handsets used in our field sites and how they support and/or constrain mobile communication. We then discuss the implications of our findings: in particular, how this affordance-based approach draws attention to mobile phones’ design features and to the context in which they and their users are embedded—a focus which suggests new design and research opportunities in mobile communication.

Participatory Design and Creativity in Development of Information and Communication Technologies

2011 ◽  
pp. 75-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nette Schultz ◽  
Lene Sørensen ◽  
Dan Saugstrup
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ict Development ◽  
Mobile Ict

This chapter presents and discusses a new design framework for involving users at an early stage in a mobile ICT development project. A user-centered design process, in which participatory design principles are combined with creativity techniques, is used in order to create scenarios as a communication tool between users and system designers. The theoretical basis for the framework is described, leading to a new participatory design and creativity framework. Empirical insight into how the framework has been developed and used in practice is presented based on the experiences and results from a large ICT development project within the ?eld of mobile communication. Finally, the value of applying creativity as part of a participatory design process is discussed.

scholarly journals Usage of Information and Communication Technologies among Agrarian Youths of Manipur, India

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Mayanglambam Victoria Devi ◽  
Loukham Devarani ◽  
R. J. Singh ◽  
L. Hemochandra
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Significant Dependence ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
Level Of Significance

The present study aimed at analysing the usage of ICTs by the agrarian youths of state Manipur, India. The locale of study was Imphal-West district of Manipur, from where 120 respondents have been randomly selected from six villages of the two sub-divisions viz., Patsoi and Wangoi. The study delved into examining whether the socio-economic profiles of youths have any significant dependence with the utilization of different ICT tools viz., Radio, T.V., Mobile Phone, PC/Laptop, Internet and Information Kiosk. The major findings of the analysis reveal that ‘Attitude towards ICTs’ has significant dependence at 5% level of significance with the utilization of Radio. The variable ‘Education’ has significant dependence with the utilization of television at 10% level of significance. The utilization of PC/laptop by respondents had significant dependence with ‘Education’, ‘Attitude towards ICTs’, ‘Cosmopoliteness’ and ‘Social participation’ at 1% level of significance. With respect to utilization of Internet by agrarian youths, the variables, namely ‘Education’, ‘Attitude towards ICTs’, ‘Cosmopoliteness’ and ‘Social Participation’ have significant dependence at 1% level of significance. Pertaining the utilization of information kiosks by respondents, the variable ‘Age’ has significant dependence at 1% level of significance. Lack of infrastructural facilities to access ICTs was the most profound constraints faced by agrarian youths of Manipur.

scholarly journals Information and Communication Technologies Usage among Agricultural Students of Tertiary Institutions in Southwest of Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Oyedeji.T. Yekinni ◽  
Temitope. A. Ladigbolu ◽  
Rhoda. T. Adeniyi ◽  
Sola. J. Oluwasusi
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Sampling Procedure ◽  
Tertiary Institution ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Agricultural Students

The study examined information and communication technologies usage among agricultural students of tertiary institution in Southwest of Nigeria. Multistage sampling procedure was used to select 300 agricultural students from tertiary institutions. Structured questionnaire was employed to elicit information on students’ socioeconomic characteristics, availability of ICTs, accessibility and purposes of ICTs usage. Data were subjected to percentage, chi-square, the Pearson Product Moment Correlation and the Analysis of variance at p=0.05. Findings revealed that the most available ICTs among students were internet and mobile phone (95.0%) respectivelywhile they had access to mobile phone (Weighted Mean (WM)=0.58) and radio (WM=0.51), they used ICTs for information (WM=0.77), academics (WM=0.70) and entertainment (WM=0.70) purposes; with high level of availability (71.0%), access (56.7%) and ICTs usage purpose (51.3%) respectively. There were significant relationships between respondents’ monthly stipend (r=0.200), state of institution (χ2=8.000), religion (χ2=222.660), marital status (χ2=211.680), category of students’ programme (χ2= 320.4608), type of institution (χ2=56.000) and their purposes for using ICTs but with a significant difference across the states (F=23.821; p=0.00). Students used ICTs for information, academic and entertainment purposes based on their age and type of their institutions. Since ICTs are used for beneficial purposes, it is recommended that ICTs should be adapted, applied and incorporated into tertiary institutions’ curricula across the nation. Keywords: ICTs usage, undergraduate students, entertainment purposes, mobile phone, tertiary institutions.

ИНДИКАТОРЫ ГРУЗОПЕРЕВОЗОК И ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКАЯ БЕЗОПАСНОСТЬ

2020 ◽  
pp. 63-66
Author(s):  
A.N. Bryntsev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Freight Transportation ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Crisis Situations

The article discusses the issues of economic security, taking into account the congestion of the transport and logistics infrastructure. As an example, the indicator of freight transportation by rail is shown, which allows predicting the onset of crisis situations at an early stage of their development. A brief analysis of the development of the market of information and communication technologies in the light of the formation of a new concept for the formation of business is given.

An Intelligent Machine-Driven Perspective to Archaeological Pottery Reassembly

2021 ◽  
pp. 127-137
Author(s):  
Wilson Sakpere ◽  
Valentina Gallerani
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
High Standard ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Standard Solution ◽  
High Standards ◽  
And Mathematics

Information and communication technologies (ICT) have been at the centre of most innovations. With applications in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields, it has become prevalent in business, art, and humanities disciplines, among others, as well. Among the potential applications of ICT in social sciences and digital humanities, documentation and reconstruction of archaeological artefacts have garnered interest and resulted in several studies. This is because of the potential inherent in these artefacts for archaeological and historical studies. However, regarding pottery reassembly, challenges are experienced in implementing an optimal solution entailing high standards. Although existing studies attempted to solve these challenges, a high standard solution is still elusive. This article presents an approach to a machine-driven solution that intends to use computer vision and machine learning, whose potential is yet to be felt in pottery reassembly. This investigation, still at an early stage, has profound implications for future studies in pottery studies in general.

Mobile Phone Technology for ALL: Towards Reducing the Digital Divide

2015 ◽  
pp. 1456-1470
Author(s):  
Diane Nelson Bryen ◽  
Enid Moolman
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Mobile Phone Technology ◽  
Communication Disabilities ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Adults With Intellectual Disabilities

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has been ratified by more than 137 countries. Among its 55 articles, access to information and communication technologies is highlighted. However, people with intellectual and communication disabilities continue to have limited access to mobile phone technologies. This article describes the potential of mobile phones for this population and what is known about its use by children and adults with intellectual disabilities as well as those with significant communication disabilities. Policy implications to reduce this digital divide will be proposed as well as needed research.

ICT Productivity in Agriculture

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anoj Chhetri
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Extension Services ◽  
Farm Productivity ◽  
Call Centres ◽  
Agricultural Performance ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Research Findings

This paper describes about how to apply information and communication technologies (ICTs) to solve agricultural problems. It presents research findings on Agriculture ICT (AgICT) impact on the agricultural performance. It talks about how ICT enhances extension services by applying tools such as mobile phone, SMS, call centres, etc. This papers presents some research findings on the ICT productivity stating that farmers using AgICT in farming activities have increased 5.91 % of their farm productivity compared to the immediate past year while farmers having no exposure to AgICT increased only 3.90% of farm productivity. This can apparently be assumed that the AgICT alone can contribute 2.01% increase in farm productivity.

scholarly journals Impacts of Mobile Phone Use on Poverty Reduction for Non-Commercial Farmers in Rural North Ghana

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew David Smith ◽  
Jo Hanisch
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Commercial Activity ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Traditional Area

This paper presents findings from an investigation of the poverty-reduction impacts of mobile phone use by subsistence farmers in the Kaleo Traditional Area (KTA) in rural north Ghana. The mobile phone can benefit poor people engaged in commercial activities in developing countries, yet it remains unknown whether the mobile phone affords poverty-reduction impacts on livelihoods where commercial activity is secondary to self sustenance. Our findings suggest that comparative advantages exist for phone-owning farmers in the KTA. However, phoneless farmers who ‘free-ride’ on their phone-owning neighbours also accrue gains. Hence, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can benefit not only phone-owners with poverty-reduction impacts, but encouragingly (albeit, more subtly), phoneless farmers.

scholarly journals Cybersecurity Risk Supervision

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (15) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamas Gaidosch ◽  
Frank Adelmann ◽  
Anastasiia Morozova ◽  
Christopher Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Cyber Attack ◽  
Financial Systems ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Supervisory Practices ◽  
Cyber Risk ◽  
Malicious Intent ◽  
Risk Supervision

This paper highlights the emerging supervisory practices that contribute to effective cybersecurity risk supervision, with an emphasis on how these practices can be adopted by those agencies that are at an early stage of developing a supervisory approach to strengthen cyber resilience. Financial sector supervisory authorities the world over are working to establish and implement a framework for cyber risk supervision. Cyber risk often stems from malicious intent, and a successful cyber attack—unlike most other sources of risk—can shut down a supervised firm immediately and lead to systemwide disruptions and failures. The probability of attack has increased as financial systems have become more reliant on information and communication technologies and as threats have continued to evolve.

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