@conference {346, title = {Cyber Handyman and Nursing for Humanitarian Services and Disaster Relief}, booktitle = {2018 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST)}, year = {2018}, month = {Oct}, abstract = {

Calamities cause immense damage to the lives and properties; emergency management and humanitarian support have always been a challenge in the disaster-hit areas due to deficiency of skilled workforce and increase in demand for available experts. Not all the volunteers have the required technical expertise to handle those situations, utilizing the services of the remotely located experts to enhance the skills of the volunteers can help them to handle the situations efficiently. The existing communication mechanisms do not have the capabilities required for collaborating people over physical tasks, which is crucial during the emergency situations. In this paper, we present two novel remote collaboration systems, Cyber-Handyman and Cyber-Nurse using which the less-trained and inexperienced aid workers can enhance their capabilities with the help from remote experts. These units will be deployed in the disaster sites, and the remote experts access and control the sensors on it to guide the aid workers or the victims. The efficiency of the collaboration over physical tasks, which is vital during emergency situations, depends on the complexity of the protocols utilized and the efficiency of the collaboration system. We also propose a methodology to evaluate the protocol complexity and efficiency of the system. Our experiments and results show that with our collaboration system a remote helper can successfully guide the workers in performing a physical task with minimum difficulty.

}, keywords = {Collaboration, collaboration system, common grounding, Complexity theory, Entropy, Grounding, helper-worker collaboration, human-human collaboration, human-machine collaboration, protocol complexity theory, Protocols, remote collaboration, Senior citizens, Task analysis, voice over IP}, doi = {10.1109/THS.2018.8574176}, author = {Jonnada, Srikanth and Ram Dantu and Ranasinghe, Ishan} } @conference {88, title = {A framework for secured collaboration in mHealth}, booktitle = {Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS), 2015 International Conference on}, year = {2015}, month = {06/2015}, abstract = {

We have designed a novel framework of services, protocols and technologies to ensure the secure collaboration in M2M networks, specifically in mobile health. The promise of mobile health to reform preventive self-care opens new doors for remote monitoring to improve health care communication. With cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) as an example, we classify our M2M elements into services, roles, human-computer protocols and technologies through which we require trust, anonymity, scalability, and active detachment. We simulate a scenario in which a patient needs CPR and through the use of widely available technologies (such as a smartphone and secure web sockets) we demonstrate a technological collaboration that facilitates secure emergency mobile health services.

}, keywords = {cardiology, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Cardiopulmonary resuscitation(CPR), Collaboration, Computers, CPR, health care, health care communication, human computer interaction, human-computer protocol, M2M network, machine to machine(M2M), Medical services, mHealth, Mobile communication, mobile computing, mobile health, Protocols, remote monitoring, Scalability, secure collaboration, secure emergency mobile health services, secured collaboration, security of data, servers, smart phones, smartphone}, doi = {10.1109/CTS.2015.7210450}, author = {Widick, Logan and Talkington, Josh and Bajwa, Garima and Ram Dantu} } @conference {90, title = {Experiences in building a multi-university testbed for research in multimedia communications}, booktitle = {Parallel and Distributed Processing, 2008. IPDPS 2008. IEEE International Symposium on}, year = {2008}, month = {April}, abstract = {

The next generation Internet needs to support multimedia services such as voice/video over IP (VoIP) and IP-based television (IPTV) and media distribution. The goal of the project is to develop a testbed for understanding and analysis of vulnerabilities of IP-based multimedia networks. This is a collaborative project between University of North Texas, Columbia University, Purdue University, and University of California at Davis. This project was awarded in 2006 and in one year, we have developed a multi-university testbed with variety of PBX solutions including Asterisk, a multitude of voice and video IP phones, and multiple universities were connected through a secure VPN and Internet!. As with any endeavor, experiences and we have many unique issues, which sometimes cause setbacks. We have dealt with issues concerning interoperability between phones and servers, network address translation (NAT) connectivity issues, and many other collaboration issues concerning people and technology. An interworking of students from multiple universities, faculty, system administrators and support personnel has brought the testbed resources together for a working environment. In this paper we described our progress and experiences in more detail and how to fulfill our mission statement while supporting the various collaborative efforts involved with this project. In addition, we described the current research activities based on the testbed. Finally we described the next steps in the testbed development.

}, keywords = {Asterisk, Collaboration, Collaborative work, digital television, Internet telephony, IP-based television, IPTV, media distribution, Multimedia communication, Multimedia communications, multiuniversity testbed, Network address translation, network address translation connectivity issues, Network servers, next generation Internet, open systems, PBX solutions, phones-servers interoperability, private telephone exchanges, Testing, TV, video IP phones, video over IP, virtual private network, virtual private networks, voice over IP, Web and internet services}, doi = {10.1109/IPDPS.2008.4536392}, author = {Ram Dantu and Schulzrinne, Henning and Sroufe, Paul} }