Mobile+Computing+II

=**Mobile Computing II**= Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Topic overview:
The incredible proliferation of mobile phones, concurrent with the rapid move to more and more computationally powerful and sensor-enabled mobile phones, creates many very interesting business and social development opportunities. In today's class we will use the simple emerging IT analytic framework for evaluating emerging information technologies that was introduced last week to explore emerging applications of ubiquitous mobile computing devices. Specifically, we will consider ways in which mobile phones can be used as sensors to gather data, and data warehousing, business intelligence, and cloud computing infrastructure can be used to analyze and act on that data.

By the end of today's class you should:
 * Be able to identify numerous business and social development opportunities that the ubiquitous spread of mobile phones introduce.
 * Have improved your understanding of the emerging IT framework, and improved your ability to apply it.
 * Be able to use the analysis framework to look at a specific emerging technology (and/or application of that technology) in detail.

**Preparation for class:** Prior to class you need to read the following article from The Economist to help you begin thinking about ways in which mobile devices can be used as large-scale data collection and aggregation devices:
 * [Econ6_6_09] "Sensors and Sensitivity", The Economist, June 6, 2009, page 21
 * [[file:Mobile phones - Sensors and sensitivity - The Economist June 6 2009.pdf]]

Once you have read the article from the Economist, you need to find one or more other innovative ways that people and organizations are using data collected from mobile phones to solve real-world problems, both in business and in society at large. You may use the web, newspapers, magazines, news reports, discussions with experts who are doing this type of work, etc. Instead of posting a question prior to class today, you should identify a use of this sort and post a brief description to the wiki identifying what the use is, who is doing so in this way (or who is advocating doing so in the future), and a reference to follow for further information. We will select some of the most interesting projects to discuss in class and evaluate with the framework.

To help get you going, four specific applications in which there is significant research work being conducted in this area are: health and disease tracking, environmental monitoring, traffic and congestion management, and ICT for developing economies.

As a reference, we will be using the Emerging IT Analysis Framework from last week: >
 * [Monroe06] Robert Monroe, Emerging Information Technologies Analysis Framework, 2006.
 * [[image:http://c1.wikicdn.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png height="32" link="https://cmuq-mis.wikispaces.com/file/view/EIT+Fall+%2706+Analysis+Model+v1.0.pdf"]] [|EIT Fall '06 Analysis Model v1.0.pdf]

**Reference materials:**
Slides:

**Examples of intriguing uses of mobile phone data analysis:** [Bob Monroe] Intel labs and their university partners (including the University of California at Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon) have a research project underway called Common Sense ([] ). The purpose of this project is to demonstrate the value that would be derived in terms of understanding pollution patterns and air quality dynamics if mobile phones were equipped with simple environmental sensors. This work is referenced briefly in the article from The Economist, but there is significantly more information available on the identified website.

[Asma Al-Kuwari] Cell-Life, a non-governmental organization based in Cape Town, South Africa, created its “Aftercare” program to work with the public health system and its health workers to provide home-based care for HIV/AIDS patients receiving ART treatments.The mobile technology-based Aftercare program supports the effective treatment of HIV/AIDS patients, and covers other aspects such as voluntary counseling. The goals of the program include reduction of treatment errors, increased volume of patient data, and increased comfort for the patients as they receive HIV/AIDS care. []

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[Zeyad Al-Mudhaf] The Northern Way is a British company involved in congestion management using "Intelligent Transport Systems". One way it does this is by using the pre-trip traffic information for a certain driver and sending that information to him or her via their mobile device. Thus, on a wide scale, the objective is to reduce congestion on the roads. **PDF Source:** []=====

[Abdulla Ali Al-Kuwari] MIT had an experiment called "WikiCity" in which it used mobile sensors to gather real-time information about the location data of the mobile phones and GPS systems and then integrated these data. The data were collected from Rome and it directly mapped trends out of these data. The data of such trends were collected from movement patterns of the people and the transportation systems. The data also included "social and spatial usage" of the neighborhoods and streets in Rome. The goal of this project was to "enables people to become distributed intelligent actuators". This will help people increase the efficiency of their movement and become "prime actors".
 * Source: []**

[Hala Khashabi] NoiseTube is a research project, led by Nicolas Maisonneuve from the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris, France. The purpose of this project is monitoring noise pollution involving the general public through measuring your own noise exposure in your everyday environment using a sensor installed in your mobile phone. To do so, you can download a free application on your GPS equipped phone and you will be able to measure the level of noise. You can also create a collective map of noise pollution and send it automatically to the NoiseTube server. Source: [|http://www.noisetube.net/?locale=en]

[Rifki Bahri] California Centre for Innovative Transportation is trying to develop a system of potentially using the GPS in cell phones in order to collect traffic data and send it back to the drivers. The software is currently only available to residents living in Bay Area and Sacramento, California. Source: []

[Fatima Hilal] Take a low-cost ultrasound probe, a Windows mobile phone, and the skills of two scientists at Washington University in St Louis in the United States, and you get the world's first mobile-phone ultrasound instrument. USB-based ultrasound probes have been around since 2005, offering a much cheaper and more portable alternative to larger ultrasound machines. The small probes are connected to a phone with a USB cord that has been, typically, connected to a laptop for displaying the images. But carrying around laptops for transmitting images is not an option in many clinics in developing countries for lack of consistent electricity, heat, and lack of Internet access. Mobile phones, on the other hand, are ubiquitous, easy to use, and they have the mobile network built in to transmit and retrieve images. William Richard, Associate Professor, and David Zar Research Associate, both at Washington University in St. Louis have now developed the first, fully integrated USB ultrasound probe.
 * Source: ** []

[Noora Al-Mannai] ClaimMobile was inspired by Berkley Ph.D. student, [|Ben Bellows], who was researching the HealthyLife voucher program , which provides for low-cost treatment and testing of sexually transmitted infections. This is because he believes that a mobile phone can make the process more efficient and accurate, saving money and resources for local clinics. ClaimMobile has two main components: A web application used by management agencies, and a mobile phone used in the clinics. The mobile phone form is dynamic with each question changing depending on the answer to the previous question. The form will also tell the user if one answer is inconsistent with another answer on the form. Clinics submit the forms from the phone to the web application, and then get feedback on their phones. The ClaimMobile application works on Palm smartphones.
 * Source: ** []

[Jummana Kahlout] Researchers from Nokia and University of Claifornia, Berkely, have been working on a project that basically uses mobile phones ( with GPS systems on them) to track the traffic congestion. This tracking system on phones could help them understand the routes people take and the difficulties with traffic in almost real time!

Source: http://www.physorg.com/news121845452.html

[Nada Al-Mahmeed] **The Argonne-developed technology (** Applications for homeland security, emergency planning **) **: this technology can be used “to detect chemical and biological agents and also to determine if a country is using its nuclear reactors to produce material for nuclear weapons or to track the direction of a chemical or radioactive plume to evacuate an area”. Source for further details: []

[Shuaa] Mobile pollution sensors: Led by Imperial College London, the project will trial three types of mobile, wireless pollution sensor. These will measure traffic pollutants throughout the UK, and transmit their data via the mobile phone network.Four UK universities are collaborating on the project, which will deploy 100 sensors in London, Leicester, Gateshead and Cambridge.Each one will measure up to five different traffic pollutants simultaneously, including carbon monoxide and sulphur dioxide. for further details []  [Hatem Salem] We know that weather satellites are used to track the changes in the earth's atmosphere. As a result of this tracking ability various environmental changes have been discovered before they wreak havoc with our lives and the places where we live. These weather satellites are also used to inform us about the seasonal weather patterns and if there is any changes detected. The new apple iphone 3 Gs detetects these diverse whether conditions anywhere you go and even detects the location you are at. []

[Maryam Al-Kuwari] The Telstra Foundation, (an Australian foundation that supports community organizations who try to make a positive difference in the lives of Australia’s children and young people ) has worked on a project to track teenagers emotional feelings such as person's mood, stress levels, coping strategies, alcohol and cannabis use, exercise, eating patterns and general lifestyle factors by letting the participants answer questions on a programmed mobile asking them about how they were feeling. The responses were sent to a website interface which evaluated each patient's mental well-being and construct an individual report for the doctor to help them determine what treatment was required. Source : [].

[Samira Islam] Traffic Gauge - Mobile traffic maps is a company who provide various methods by which customers can track taffice. They provide their famous wireless device called TrafficGauge which they claim is the easiest way to track traffic wherever they need it. More importantly, they use cell phones through which they provide color traffic maps. This feature can be activated in any web enabled phones such as ( Iphone, Blackberry etc). Source: http://www.trafficgauge.com/

[Hadi Murtada] A new technology which allows you to drive your car with a smart phone. This iphone application makes your phone into a remote control for your car. The driver can operate the steering, brakes and accelerator pedal with just a few touches on his screen. This allows people to stay on their couches and drive their car which decreases the stress of waiting in the car through traffic. Source: http://www.kokeytechnology.com/gadgets/iphone-3g-gadgets/6103-idriver-drive-your-car-remotely-using-your-iphone-3g-and-3gs/

[Mohammed Al-Thani] Trapster is a free program that could be downloaded on mobile phones which allows individuals to detect speed radars using their mobile phones. Using GPS navigation, users could report locations of police traps, speed cameras and red light cameras. In addition, users could comment on the radar locations. Many people use this technology to avoid expensive police tickets. Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-9904663-2.html

[Alhanoof Al-Emadi] Wireless credit card terminal works with Mobile Transaction Terminal (MTT), you get mobile technologies and the ability to make a POS (point of sale) transaction. The transaction interface refers to the link between the customer payment and business function areas. Source: [|http://www.cardservicevc.com/tips/credit-card-processing-equipment.htm#think-out-of-the-box-in-fact-take-your-box-with-you]

[Muhanna Al - Rumaihi] Nokia Mobiles barcode reader - the barcode reader can be used for a variety of ways, for example it can simply read bar codes and decipher them and can also scan website urls and directly connect to them. Also it can scan phone numbers and automatatically dial that scanned phone number. Source: http://mobilecodes.nokia.com/scan.htm

[Brian Manalastas] Grameenphone, inspired by Muhammed Yunus' micro-finance Grameen Bank was developed by Iqbal Quadir from MIT who envisioned a business model where a cell phone can be used as a source of income for natives in Bangladesh. Grameenphone offers a wide range of nontraditional telecommunications services that range from, //Grameen Healthline//, //Pay for Me// to the //Village phone program// geared to alleviate a underserved communities (http**:**//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grameenphone). It is considered one of the most cost-effective and scalable ICT4D.

[Marwan ElGhamrawy] Some shipping companies like DHL, if you deliver a package you can know where is your package via a tracker device on it, so you can know which road it is on and on what truck, estimated amount of time until arrival, is known through the vast amount of IT and IS capabilities DHL, has with maybe millions of shipping requests. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhl

[Ramsey Massouh] There used to be chips put inside people to locate their places, usually put on prisoners, i heard they are RFID tags, used to trakc people.

[Mathew James] The **Artificial Passenger** is a [|telematic] device developed by [|IBM] that interacts verbally to reduce the likelihood of a vehicle operator falling asleep at the controls.The Artificial Passenger is equipped to engage a vehicle operator by carrying on conversations, playing verbal games, controlling the vehicle's stereo system, and so on. It also monitors the driver's speech patterns to detect fatigue, and in response can suggest that the driver take a break or get some sleep. The Artificial Passenger may also be integrated with wireless services to provide weather and road information, driving directions, and so on. **____**

[Maryam Alsemaitt] **Voice Control** in the iphone. Voice Control recognizes the names in your Contacts and knows the music on your iPod. So if you want to place a call or play a song, all you have to do is ask. This technology is making the mobile device even more user friendly, where the user feels like he/she is asking the phone what to do, who to call and which song to play. ****