This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services (MobiCASE 2015) held in Berlin, Germany, in November 2015. The 16 full and 4 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions, and are presented together with 4 papers from the First Workshop on Situation Recognition by Mining Temporal Information (SIRE…
The goal of this book is to crystallize the emerging mobile computing technologies and trends by focusing on the most promising solutions in services computing. The book will provide clear proof that mobile technologies are playing an increasingly important and critical role in supporting toy computing. The goal of this book is to bring together academics and practitioners to describe the use a…
The twenty-first century has seen LGBTQ+ rights emerge at the forefront of public discourse and national politics in ways that would once have been hard to imagine. Focusing on the small screens of Europe and North America, "Lesbians on Television" maps the contemporary shifts in lesbian visibility within popular media and, from this, extracts a figure of the new 'lesbian normal' that both he…
A few months into the popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in 2009/10, the promises of social media, including its ability to influence a participatory governance model, grassroots civic engagement, new social dynamics, inclusive societies and new opportunities for businesses and entrepreneurs, became more evident than ever. Simultaneously, cartography received ne…
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The twenty-first century has seen LGBTQ+ rights emerge at the forefront of public discourse and national politics in ways that would once have been hard to imagine. Focusing on the small screens of Europe and North America, "Lesbians on Television" maps the contemporary shifts in lesbian visibility within popular media and, from this, extracts a figure of the new 'lesbian normal' that both help…
This volume explores institutional change and performance in the resource-rich Andean countries during the last resource boom and in the early post-boom years. The latest global commodity boom has profoundly marked the face of the resource-rich Andean region, significantly contributing to economic growth and notable reductions of poverty and income inequality. The boom also constituted a period…
VOICECONET: A Collaborative Framework for Speech-Based Computer Accessibility with a Case Study for Brazilian Portuguese
Toward Computational Processing of Less Resourced Languages: Primarily Experiments for Moroccan Amazigh Language
Modeling Human-Computer Interaction in Smart Spaces: Existing and Emerging Techniques