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Spring 2017
With the rise of smartphones and the increasing impact of mobile applications on everyday life, mobile software engineering has become a popular research topic. A desired outcome of these research efforts is efficient application development with lower cost, but with high-quality software...
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Fall 2020
Most modern smartphones are equipped with barometer sensors. Accessing barometers does not require any permission or user notification, as it is deemed to be harmless. We show, however, that by simply reading low-rate barometer's samples, any background application can detect user's finger taps...
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Fall 2017
The continuous increase in the use of mobile devices has been driving research in the improvement of the energy consumption of these devices and the applications running on them. In this thesis, we present a tool that helps Android developers understand the implications of their changes to the...
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Fall 2018
I have created a custom keyboard for Western Plains Cree syllabics based on a symmetrically square layout. It is called the Star Chart Keyboard and currently runs on Apple iOS devices. It allows for previously difficult to access syllabics characters to be typed digitally in as few steps as...