Browsing by Subject "Personal digital assistants"

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PocketDrive: A system for mobile control of desktop PC and its applications using PDAs
(IEEE, 2007-11) Yıldırım, Yenel; Körpeoğlu, İbrahim
Today, consumer electronic devices and PCs are inevitable parts of our daily life. Controlling those devices remotely is an important aspect of the technology. We have already universal remote control devices for controlling consumer electronic devices. Similarly, we may control our desktop and laptop PCs and their applications remotely via portable and smaller computers like PDAs and Pocket PCs. This paper presents a system and its architecture that enable a wireless-enabled PDA to control a PC and its applications remotely over a 802.11 or Bluetooth link. With such a system running on a PDA, a user can start, run and control PC applications from any location that is reachable via 802.11 link. This enables flexibility, ease of use, and freedom for the user of PC applications. ©2007 IEEE.
Open Access
Vision-based single-stroke character recognition for wearable computing
(IEEE, 2001) Özer, Ö. F.; Özün, O.; Tüzel, C. Ö.; Atalay, V.; Çetin, A. Enis
Particularly when compared to traditional tools such as a keyboard or mouse, wearable computing data entry tools offer increased mobility and flexibility. Such tools include touch screens, hand gesture and facial expression recognition, speech recognition, and key systems. We describe a new approach for recognizing characters drawn by hand gestures or by a pointer on a user's forearm captured by a digital camera. We draw each character as a single, isolated stroke using a Graffiti-like alphabet. Our algorithm enables effective and quick character recognition. The resulting character recognition system has potential for application in mobile communication and computing devices such as phones, laptop computers, handheld computers and personal data assistants.