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User behavior analytics is playing a growing role in security decisions that grant or deny access to online services. Smartphone sensors can enhance PIN and pattern based mobile authentication by continuously monitoring user behavior. However, these ...

Our data is now more valuable than ever. The uncontrolled growth of internet-centered services has led us to accept many compromises about how we share it. In the era of Internet of Things, smart devices are collecting personal data continuously. Now, ...

We are witnessing a rapid proliferation of location-based services, due to the useful context-aware services they provide their users. However, sharing sensitive location traces with untrusted service-providers has many privacy implications. Although, ...

Cardiopulmonary disease prognosis can achieve therapeutic edge if the disorders can be detected and attended to at an early stage. This work proposes 'Cardiopulmonary Care Platform (C2P)' which in its current initial phase, targets at subjects in the ...

Heart disease and stroke are becoming the leading cause of death worldwide. Electrocardiography monitoring devices (ECG) are the only tool that helps physicians diagnose cardiac abnormalities. Although the design of ECGs has followed closely the ...

Blood pressure (BP) is considered to be an important biomarker for cardiac risk estimation. This paper deals with a non-conventional way of estimating BP using smartphone captured Photoplethysmogram (PPG) that enables unobtrusive health monitoring at ...

Preventive medicine is heading towards a more personalized future; adjusting care based on the individual needs of the patient. This future is enabled by wearable devices: not just smartwatches, but devices embedded in clothing, necklaces, and other ...

We present a speech crowdsourcing-based navigation system, Spee-Navi, which is able to guide users to the target in ambiguous indoor environments. The proposed approach leverages the microphones in the commercial off-the-shelf devices to extract the ...

With the evolution of nuclear families and diverse career options, families as social groups are spending lesser time together than in the past decades. In this work, we study both quantitative as well as qualitative aspects of time spent with family ...

Mobile phones have become an indispensable part of our daily life. For the sake of portability and energy conservation, battery-powered mobile phones have inherent features: small screens, short sessions, single window visible at one time, and variant ...