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An assistive smart technology that helps seniors cope with degenerative changes and independent living by simply pointing a device or smartphone camera at an object to send a text message or activate a phone call.
A haze analytics tool that provides users with the latest health advisories during haze episodes, and that can be integrated with wearable devices such as smart watches and smart bands to objectively measure a user's heart rate and other health parameters.
These are some of the innovative information and communications technologies (ICTs) being developed by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) professors that will potentially enhance communication and productivity, improve healthcare and give people more options for managing their daily lives.
These innovations are just some of the many new ICT ideas being presented at ICTD 2015, the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development from 15-18 May 2015. A key thrust of the conference is “Open Development”, which emphasises how promising ICT innovations may transform societies and fuel global economic growth.
The conference is hosted by NTU’s Singapore Internet Research Centre (SiRC), a centre under the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (WKWSCI). NTU is at the forefront of this increasingly significant research area, combining its strengths in engineering and technology with communication and information, and other disciplines.
The international conference will see the latest research advances in ICTs in education, health, e-government and politics, disability and infrastructure, mobile communication and agriculture. About 250 researchers, practitioners and policy-makers from over 30 countries are attending the event.
Associate Professor Arul Chib, Director of the Singapore Internet Research Centre and Chairman of this year’s ICTD conference organising committee said, “The conference will bring together an extremely diverse community of experts, practitioners and academics, to discuss new ideas in ICT and ICT-based systems that may lead to a whole chain of innovations that can spur socio-economic development around the world. The emphasis is on how ICT can empower people to advance social change in participatory and socially just ways.
“Singapore is a good example for many developing countries because of its effective use of ICTs and quality research in this field. Many of the critical issues discussed at the conference are also connected to Singapore’s aspirations to become a ‘Smart Nation’ and a global data and information hub. Many of the faculty and students from NTU’s WKWSCI will be participating in the conference to put Singapore research in the global spotlight.”
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