Abstract In the recent years, wearable devices like smartwatches and fitness trackers have enhanced our daily lifes in manifold aspects. However, one of the biggest hassles of our modern digitized world they have not been able to eliminate yet: today almost everyone has to deal with passwords or login credentials that are either too short…
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In her thesis, Lisa Kranz analyzed current automotive apps from different vendors on functionality and design. Using the User Centered Design approach, she developed a new Android App for a large car manufacturer near Stuttgart that implies the most relevant functions from all analyzed apps. The thesis documents the whole development process including the process…
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This thesis introduces a mesh implementation for purely battery-powered nodes that works on top of the Bluetooth 4.1 specification and proposes the FruityMesh algorithm to solve the complicated task of autonomous meshing and maintenance. Current state-of-the-art scientific, BLE and other mesh networks are presented before discussing possibilities and limitations of Bluetooth Low Energy. A simulation…
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The purpose of this study is to develop a framework for background location monitor- ing using smartphones in an enterprise setting to demonstrate the benefits that indoor Location Based Services (iLBS) provide to businesses. A use case consisting of two components has been defined to demonstrate this: In an office setting, the employee’s loaction with…
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In the development of complex automotive HMI systems, car manufacturers don’t make use of their full potential. Although efficient reference processes and innovative development approaches exist companies prefer the application of established methods and tools. The shift towards new development approaches takes place slowly and step by step to avoid a negative impact on running…
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Analyzing textual information using semantic methods has become a necessity in order to control the increasing amount of information and its condensed presentation on the small displays of mobile devices. A large knowledge base is a prerequisite for such algorithms. In this work, we present a new algorithm which uses the structured database Freebase and…
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Given the growing importance of smartphones, infotainment in vehicles is one of the major challenges automotive manufacturers are currently facing. Since smartphones have revolutionized the telecommunication industry, people have been storing almost all of their personal information on these devices. Conse- quently, synchronizing this data with the vehicle becomes inevitable. Contact de- tails and media…
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The subject of this masterthesis is the design of a web-based runtime environment for in-car infotainment systems. It develops an architecture to speed up the deve- lopment of prospective systems without jeopardizing the security. The approach is based upon a central interface for communication. Different approaches will be evaluated in order to elaborate a specification…
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The-M-Project is an OpenSource JavaScript and HTML5 framework and toolkit for developing mobile web applications. It can be seen as a competitor of Sencha Touch. In order to keep the already quite successful project competitive an easier way to develop applications is required. Thus a GUI editor was needed.
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The present work deals with the analysis and benchmarking of frameworks for cross- platform mobile application development. Mobile devices have shaped our society. In 2011, more than 11.8 million smartphones were sold in Germany. This means that 43 percent of mobile phones sold in Germany were smartphones. Besides the innovative devices themselves, the available applications…
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