International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications: Volume 12 Issue 1

MOONACS: a mobile on-/offline NFC-based physical access control system

Dominik Gruntz, Christof Arnosti, Marco Hauri

The purpose of this paper is to present a smartphone-based physical access control system in which the access points are not directly connected to a central authorization server…

A study on individual mobility patterns based on individuals’ familiarity to visited areas

Jungkyu Han, Hayato Yamana

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the correlations between amount of individual’s knowledge of a specific area and his/her visit pattern to point of interest (POI…

WIF4InL: Web-based integration framework for Indoor location

Long Niu, Sachio Saiki, Shinsuke Matsumoto, Masahide Nakamura

The purpose of this paper is to establish an application platform that addresses expensive development cost and effort of indoor location-aware application (InL-Apps) problems…

An experimental survey of no-reference video quality assessment methods

Maria Torres Vega, Vittorio Sguazzo, Decebal Constantin Mocanu, Antonio Liotta

The Video Quality Metric (VQM) is one of the most used objective methods to assess video quality, because of its high correlation with the human visual system (HVS). VQM is…

A method for controlling crowd flow by changing recommender information on navigation application

Ruiwei Shen, Tsutomu Terada, Masahiko Tsukamoto

This paper aims to control the crowd flow naturally by presenting appropriate information.

An in-depth analysis of strong t-consistency on secret image sharing

Anneke Soraya Hidayat, Gil-Je Lee, Eun-Jun Yoon, Kee-Young Yoo

The detection of an adversary in secret image sharing has been a problematic side in the reconstruction phase. Some of verifiable secret sharing solutions have been proposed to…

TDAS: a touch dynamics based multi-factor authentication solution for mobile devices

Pin Shen Teh, Ning Zhang, Andrew Beng Jin Teoh, Ke Chen

The use of mobile devices in handling our daily activities that involve the storage or access of sensitive data (e.g. on-line banking, paperless prescription services, etc.) is…

KULOCS: unified locating service for efficient development of location-based applications

Hiroki Takatsuka, Seiki Tokunaga, Sachio Saiki, Shinsuke Matsumoto, Masahide Nakamura

The purpose of this paper is to develop a facade for seamlessly using locating services and enabling easy development of an application with indoor and outdoor location…