ICTD Work, Plus mFeel

Abstract

We're currently involved in a project that aims to increase security in sensitive (medical or administrative) transactions in unfriendly environments. Such environments are typical in areas with major telecommunication infrastructure deficiencies. In particular, we hope to reduce intermittent communications, which cause breaks in the flow of communication, and identify organizational aspects that influence the design and use of deployed services. We're also researching usability issues that hinder user acceptance, as well as the loss of information in failed transactions, which reduces users' confidence in the services deployed.We've defined a model of communications in which all entities involved in communication exchange and share the same piece of information. These pieces of information, called Contract Documents (CDs), whose scheme is based on previously defined transaction to be

Emotions in context: examining pervasive affective sensing systems, applications, and analyses

“…The ''Sense of Space'' project [64] is a work in progress that investigates how people's feelings are affected by their surrounding's environmental conditions by integrating wearable sensors into smartphones to gather all the required emotional and environmental data and then visualizing the results as a mental map.…”