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Kim, Sungwoo. "Exploring factors influencing Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) adoption." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0000976.
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Keltner, Jason R. Miller Paul C. "Integration of Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) devices into the Military Healthcare Clinic Environment." Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2001. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA397190.
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Thesis (M.S. in Information Technology Management) Naval Postgraduate School, Sept. 2001.<br>Thesis advisors, Jones, Carl ; Brutzman, Don. "September 2001." Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-175). Also Available in print.
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Wallace, Rick L., Nakia J. Cook, and Travis Clamon. "Reflections on the Impact of a Library-based Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) Service." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4870.
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Objective: The purpose of this study is to determine if a librarybased personal digital assistant (PDA) service is a significant factor in the clinical use of PDAs at an academic medical center. Methods: Health sciences students, faculty, staff, and residents at an academic medical center were the participants. The library has serviced several thousand PDAs. This population was used as the basis for the study group. The study design is a cross-sectional study using survey methodology. The analysis was done based on age, college affiliation, and gender, and answered questions such as frequency of PDA use, usefulness of library’s PDA service, and usefulness of programs the library installed on users’ PDAs. Results: One hundred and eight people responded. Seventy-five percent of the respondents would still be PDA users, even if the library did not assist or promote the service. Almost 90% were daily PDA users. Seventy-five percent stated that they would not feel confident that they could install the software without the library’s help. Conclusions: The survey results reenforced the library’s feeling that the service fills a crucial need in the community it serves. The survey also provided information on the databases it buys, which gives the library information for future collection development.
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Wei, Chen. "A novel interface for first person shooter games on personal digital assistant devices." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6368.
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Includes abstract.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 71-73).<br>The main aim of this study is to enhance the playability of games on current standard PDA devices. The newly designed interface more effectively leverages current well-established devices, which solves the problem of rapidly and accurately executing a large number of gaming commands. The outcomes of this research are beneficial for interface design of mobile applications.
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Miller, Paul C. "Integration of Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) devices into the Military Healthcare Clinic Environment." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/2114.
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The business drivers within managed care are mandating that physicians have point-of-care access to medical reference data, patient specific data, formularies, treatment protocols, and billing/coding information. One emerging technology that has the potential to provide this access with little economic investment is the mobile Personal Digital Assistant. The authors address a variety of wireless technologies and security concerns regarding real-time access to patient data. The family practice staff at the Naval Hospital Lemoore explored and contrasted the capabilities of commercially available PDAs, wireless interfaces, and medical software applications to ascertain their value within the Military Health System. A production-ready interface between the Composite Health Care System and the Nutrition Management Information Server demonstrates the potential for eliminating the difficulties associated with documenting patient encounters and capturing charges. Survey tools generate a requirements standard for deployment of this technology within the Military Health System on an enterprise-wide scale with a hybrid approach to packaging based on functionality. The authors recommend the Military Health System embrace this technology as a means to realize its vision of best value health services.<br>US Navy (USN) author
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Dill, Byron. "Human robot interaction using a personal digital assistant interface : a study of feedback modes /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p1418012.
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Ophoff, Madri. "Distributing intelligence in the wireless control of a mobile robot using a personal digital assistant." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1355.
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Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) have recently become a popular component in mobile robots. This compact processing device with its touch screen, variety of built-in features, wireless technologies and affordability can perform various roles within a robotic system. Applications include low-cost prototype development, rapid prototyping, low-cost humanoid robots, robot control, robot vision systems, algorithm development, human-robot interaction, mobile user interfaces as well as wireless robot communication schemes. Limits on processing power, memory, battery life and screen size impact the usefulness of a PDA in some applications. In addition various implementation strategies exist, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. No comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of the different strategies and resulting architectures exist. This makes it difficult for designers to decide on the best use of a PDA within their mobile robot system. This dissertation examines and compares the available mobile robot architectures. A thorough literature study identifies robot projects using a PDA and examines how the designs incorporate a PDA and what purpose it fulfils within the system it forms part of. The dissertation categorises the architectures according to the role of the PDA within the robot system. The hypothesis is made that using a distributed control system architecture makes optimal use of the rich feature set gained from including a PDA in a robot system’s design and simultaneously overcomes the device’s inherent shortcomings. This architecture is developed into a novel distributed intelligence framework that is supported by a hybrid communications architecture, using two wireless connection schemes. A prototype implementation illustrates the framework and communications architecture in action. Various performance measurements are taken in a test scenario for an office robot. The results indicate that the proposed framework does deliver performance gains and is a viable alternative for future projects in this area.
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Okada, Osamu. "Electronic clinical path system based on semistructured data model using personal digital assistant for onsite access." Kyoto University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/144727.
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Lee, Young Seok. "A Study of Reading with A Handheld Computer." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34630.
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As handheld computers are becoming powerful, portable and wireless, they have recently received considerable attention in education because their multi-functionality and mobility can be used for supporting learning activities in various manner. In spite of the potential in education, handheld computers have several limitations. One of the critical limitations is the small screen size. In an attempt to find factors affecting text readability on the small screen of handheld computers, this study, first, reviewed basic reading process and reading model, previous studies examining potential factors affecting text readability on a small handheld screen.
This study investigated the effect of screen orientation and margin on reading performance (reading speed and comprehension) and subjective impressions (ease of reading, mental workload and satisfaction) with a handheld computer. A 2x2 within-subject factorial design was conducted with 16 participants reading texts from a PDA (Compaq iPAQ 3850).
The results of this study indicated that neither screen orientation nor margin had a significant influence on objective reading performance and subjective impression. It was found that there were no prevailing preference of screen orientation and margin in reading texts from a handheld computer screen. It was also found that participants had a favorable reading experience with the handheld computers. Based on results of experiments and post-experiment questionnaire, a set of recommendations was developed to improve reading from small screens of handheld computers.<br>Master of Science
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Tripathi, Sanjay Kumar [Verfasser]. "Interface complexity of personal digital assistant : an empirical study of linear and non-linear menu / Sanjay Kumar Tripathi." Flensburg : Zentrale Hochschulbibliothek Flensburg, 2006. http://d-nb.info/1018304185/34.
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Barra, Daniela Couto Carvalho. "Processo de enfermagem informatizado em terapia intensiva em ambiente PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) a partir da CIPE versão 1.0." Florianópolis, SC, 2008. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/91774.
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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciencias da Saúde. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem<br>Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-24T02:23:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
254896.pdf: 1625551 bytes, checksum: c86708119c38c5888f93d5adf01ae22a (MD5)<br>O Processo de Enfermagem é fundamental em um setor como a Unidade de Terapia Intensiva, pois integra e organiza o trabalho da equipe de Enfermagem diminuindo a fragmentação dos cuidados, garante a continuidade dos mesmos, permite avaliar a sua eficácia ou modificá-los
de acordo com os resultados na recuperação do cliente e serve de fundamentação permanente para a educação, pesquisa e gerenciamento em Enfermagem. Este estudo é uma pesquisa metodológica e de produção tecnológica, de natureza quantitativa, que objetivou avaliar com os enfermeiros de duas Unidades de Terapia Intensiva gerais os critérios de Ergonomia, Conteúdo e Usabilidade do Processo de Enfermagem informatizado em um dispositivo móvel tipo PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) desenvolvido de acordo com a Classificação Internacional para a Prática de Enfermagem - CIPE® - Versão 1.0. O estudo foi conduzido no período de maio a junho de 2008, com uma população de 13 avaliadores constituída por enfermeiros, professores e programadores de sistemas. Foi aprovado pelos Comitês de Ética em Pesquisa da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (protocolo nº 0264/07) e do Hospital Regional Homero de Miranda Gomes (protocolo nº 010/08). A metodologia para construção do sistema informatizado contemplou os passos de desenvolvimento de sistemas de informação abrangendo: o levantamento de requisitos, a análise da tecnologia informatizada, a estrutura e modelagem dos dados e a implementação. Para o desenvolvimento do sistema no dispositivo móvel (Palm Treo 650) utilizou-se o Servidor APACHE, a linguagem WxHTML
e o Banco de Dados MySQL. Os resultados evidenciaram que o sistema possui os critérios de Ergonomia e Usabilidade sendo considerados #excelentes# pelos avaliadores. Na avaliação Ergonômica, o critério #Conteúdo# recebeu a melhor avaliação sendo considerado excelente
pelos enfermeiros e professores. Os critérios #Organização#, #Interface# e #Técnico# foram considerados #Muito Bons#. Dos 19 itens avaliados no critério de Usabilidade, somente 2 foram considerados #Muito Bons#, sendo que os outros 17 itens foram avaliados como #Excelentes#. Conclui-se que o Processo de Enfermagem no ambiente PDA associado à CIPE® versão 1.0 mostrou ser uma estrutura adequada e eficiente, pois possibilitou aos enfermeiros a organização e o desenvolvimento do raciocínio lógico no processo de assistir/cuidar dos clientes internados em Terapia Intensiva, permitindo estabelecer uma relação concreta entre as avaliações clínicas, os diagnósticos, as intervenções e os resultados de Enfermagem através das ferramentas informatizadas.
The Nursing Process is basic in a departament as the Intensive Care Unit, because it integrates and organizes the work of the Nursing team reducing the fragmentation of the cares ensuring the continuity of them, as much to evaluate its effectiveness or to modify them according to the results in the patient#s recovery and it serves as permanent basis for education, researches and in Nursing management. This study it is a methodological research and of technological production, of quantitative nature, that aimed to evaluate with the nurses of two general Intensive Care Units the criteria of Ergonomics, Content and Usability of the computerized Process of Nursing in a mobile device type PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) developed in accordance with the International Classification for the Nursing Practice - ICNP® - Version 1.0. The study was conducted in the period of May and June of 2008, with a population of 13 appraisers constituted by nurses, teachers and Computer programmers. It was approved by the Committees of Ethics in Research of the Federal University of Santa Catarina (protocol nº
0264/07) and of the Regional Hospital Homero de Miranda (protocol nº 010/08). The methodology for construction of the computerized system considered the steps of development of information systems including: the survey of requirements, the analysis of the computerized technology, the structure and modeling of the data and its implementation. For the development of the system in the mobile device (Palm Treo 650), THE RESEARCHERS USED the APACHE Server, the WxHTML language and the Data base MySQL. The results evidenced that the system has the criteria of Ergonomics and Usability being considered as #excellent# for the appraisers. In the Ergonomic evaluation, the criterion #Content# received the best evaluation being considered excellent by the nurses and professors. The criteria #Organization#, #Interface# and #Technician# were considered as #Very good#. In the 19 items evaluated in the criterion of Usability, only 2 of them were considered as #Very Good#, and the others 17 items were evaluated as #Excellent#. It is concluded that the Nursing Process in the PDA environment associated with the ICNP® version 1.0 showed to be an adequate and efficient structure, therefore it was possible to the nurses to organize and develop the logical reasoning in the process to attend/to take care of the patients interned in Intensive Therapy, allowing to establish a concrete relation between the clinical evaluations, the diagnostics, the interventions and the results of Nursing through the computerized tools.
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Bluder, Steven. "The Usage of Smartphone and PDA Based Electronic Drug Databases Among Pharmacists." The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623587.
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Class of 2012 Abstract<br>Specific Aims: To assess the use of PDA/smartphone based electronic drug databases among pharmacists as it has changed over time. The working hypothesis is that the use of PDA/Smartphone based electronic drug databases has increased over time.
Methods: A systematic review of the literature regarding the usage of PDA/smartphone based electronic drug databases among pharmacists using data that was obtained through literature searches.
Main Results: Since 2006, the percentage of pharmacists that are using PDA/smartphone based electronic drug databases has increased. Conclusions: The usage of smartphones and PDA based electronic drug databases has increased among pharmacists since 2006 (p<0.05). Easier and cheaper access to the technology has likely led to the products being available to more pharmacists.
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Pettersson, Marcus. "CAN bus diagnostic tool for PocketPC." Thesis, University West, Department of Technology, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-340.
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Wallace, Rick L. "PDAs." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8787.
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Wallace, Rick L. "PDAs." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2006. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8777.
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Wallace, Rick L. "PDAs." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8768.
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Wallace, Rick L. "PDAs." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2004. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8794.
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Unal, Halim Unsem. "Implementation Of A Wireless Streaming System For Universal Multimedia Access." Master's thesis, METU, 2003. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/4/1057652/index.pdf.
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This thesis describes a universal multimedia access system and its implementation
details. In the context of this thesis, universal multimedia access means accessing
multimedia content over ubiquitous computer networks, using different
computing platforms. The computer networks involve both wired and wireless
networks, and computing platforms involve wired PC&rsquo<br>s, mobile PC&rsquo<br>s and personal
digital assistants (PDA). The system is built on client/server architecture. Video
data is H.263 coded and carried over RTP. Java Media Framework is utilized and
its capabilities are extended with special plug-ins when necessary.
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Wallace, Rick L., and Nakia J. Woodward. "Reflections on the Impact of a Library-Based PDA Service." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2010. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8739.
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Trapl, Erika Shaun. "UNDERSTANDING ADOLESCENT SURVEY RESPONSES: IMPACT OF MODE AND OTHER CHARACTERISTICS ON DATA OUTCOMES AND QUALITY." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1175893391.
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Wallace, Rick L., and Nakia J. Woodward. "Ain't Nothin' But a PDA: Measuring the Effectiveness of PDAs in Rural Practice." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2009. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8746.
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Rangnekar, Rohit Dilip. "Remote Access and Service Discovery for a Vehicular Public Safety Cognitive Radio." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34065.
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The Virginia Tech Center for Wireless Telecommunicationsâ (CWT) Public Safety Cognitive Radio (PSCR) addresses the radio interoperability issues that plague many of the existing public safety radios â disparate frequency bands, incompatible modulation schemes and lack of active channel detection features. The PSCR allows the operator to scan for active channels, classify the detected channels, connect to any of the recognized waveforms and begin analog audio communication as well as bridge two incompatible waveforms together.
The PSCR, although very useful, unfortunately is not portable enough to be used by public safety officials. The power requirement, processing requirement and equipment is respectively large, hungry and bulky. In this thesis, a possible solution to the portability problem is addressed by installing the PSCR in a public safety vehicle and using a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) for remote access. The PDA allows the user to remotely scan, classify, talk, and bridge waveforms similar in operation to the PSCR. An ergonomically designed interface masks the channel and modulation selection procedure. This architecture can be extended to offer service to any remotely connected device.
In the second part of this thesis, the concept of remote access is extended to a wide-area wireless public safety network. A public safety network consisting of heterogeneous devices is proposed utilizing a small number of backbone nodes. The major research focus of this section is the algorithm for distributing services across the network. Service discovery is optimized to reduce the overhead of service messages and multiple service distribution techniques are utilized depending on the location of the services. Simulation is performed to evaluate the performance of the service discovery protocol in terms of overhead, dissemination time and scalability. The proposed protocol is determined to be superior to the competition in the overhead and scalability tests.<br>Master of Science
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Salloum, Roy S. "Use of personal digital assistants in the construction industry." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0012143.
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Tseng, Albert. "Design and evaluation of personal digital assistants in diabetes management." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0016/MQ45884.pdf.
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Song, Yanjie, and 宋燕捷. "Educational uses of PDAs (personal digital assistants): undergraduate student experiences." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42841410.
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Song, Yanjie. "Educational uses of PDAs (personal digital assistants) undergraduate student experiences /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42841410.
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Kirunda, Kakaire Ayub. "Using Personal Digital Assistants to Improve Healthcare Delivery in Uganda." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23073.
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Effective Health Systems make service provision easy for health workers, especially if they have access to the latest guidelines in a dynamic profession where new technologies are ever emerging. However, available data indicates that the health system in Uganda is constrained and still using old technologies despite the availability of newer technologies. As a result, this study sought to investigate the adoptability, cost effectiveness, and sustainability with regard to Personal Digital Assistants. The study, which was cross sectional in nature, was carried out in Mbale District in Eastern Uganda between 2008 and 2010. In depth interviews were conducted with health workers and key informants. Also, published and unpublished literature about theUganda Health Information Network was reviewed.The findings revealed that the use of Personal Digital Assistants also known as handheld computers can go a long way towards improving healthcare delivery in countryside health facilities. To health workers in remote places, the PDAs are a source of the latest clinical care guidelines for several diseases including HIV and AIDS as well as malaria. Health information systems have been improved and data collection and reporting have been eased by this technology. However, while evidence of viability of this technology exists, it still has challenges like power and delays in software updates among others.
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Brosovich, Tracy. "The use of personal digital assistants in the K-8 classrooms /." Full text available online, 2006. http://www.lib.rowan.edu/find/theses.
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Smith, Wesley Alan. "A comparison of traditional versus computerized anxiety assessment using personal digital assistants." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2003. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=234.
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Clement, Jeffrey S. "The Spillable Environment: Expanding a Handheld Device's Screen Real Estate and Interactive Capabilities." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2007. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1166.
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Handheld devices have a limited amount of screen real estate. If a handheld device could take advantage of larger screens, it would create a more powerful user interface and environment. As time progresses, Moore's law predicts that the computational power of handheld devices will increase dramatically in the future, promoting the interaction with a larger screen. Users can then use their peripheral vision to recognize spatial relationships between objects and solve problems more easily with this integrated system. In the spillable environment, the handheld device uses a DiamondTouch Table, a large, touch-sensitive horizontal table, to enhance the viewing environment. When the user moves the handheld device on the DiamondTouch, the orientation of the application changes accordingly. A user can let another person see the application by rotating the handheld device in that person's direction. A user could conveniently use this system in a public area. In a business meeting, a user can easily show documents and presentations to other users around the DiamondTouch table. In an academic setting, a tutor could easily explain a concept to a student. A user could effortlessly do all of this while having all of his/her information on the handheld device. A wide range of applications could be used in these types of settings.
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Fox, Brent Irby Berger Bruce A. Felkey Bill G. "Explaining pharmacists' intentions to use personal digital assistants as clinical resources during patient care interventions." Auburn, Ala., 2005. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/EtdRoot/2005/SPRING/Pharmacy_Care_Systems/Dissertation/FOX_BRENT_19.pdf.
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SCHUCKMAN, CHRISTY M. "The Use of Personal Digital Assistants Across Four Medical Center Colleges at the University of Cincinnati." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1141091676.
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Lanzolla, Vincent Rocco. "The usability of personal digital assistants as prospective memory aids for medication adherence in young and older adults." NCSU, 2004. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07272004-232139/.
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Medication adherence is essential to retaining functional independence into older adulthood. In the experiment reported here, 25 older and 26 young adults were asked to learn to use medication adherence software supported by a personal digital assistant (PDA). In addition to completing a battery of cognitive tests, each participant?s PDA skill acquisition was assessed over time (i.e., during training, immediately following training, and after a delay). Consistent with previous research, older adults required longer to learn to use the PDA and committed more errors compared to younger adults. Cognitive predictors of PDA performance included spatial ability, perceptual speed, and particularly reading comprehension. Over time, age differences in PDA performance were reduced suggesting that older adults might benefit from the use of PDAs as prospective memory aids.
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Wallace, Rick L. "PDA Training of Faculty Physicians." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8683.
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The PDA is an important technology in clinical medicine. Although PDAs are widely utilized by medical students and residents, older teaching faculty have not readily adopted them. The medical library can position itself as a leader in training patrons to use these devices. The East Tennessee State University (ETSU) Quillen College of Medicine Library (QCOML) staff trained older, experienced teaching faculty to use PDAs loaded with ePocrates and InfoRetriever databases. The training was rated highly and several faculty members became PDA users. The library is now considered the place to go on campus for PDA help.
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Saraiva, Paula Cristina Sousa. "Implementação de Serviços de Referência para Assistentes Digitais Pessoais (PDA's) nas Bibliotecas de Saúde em Portugal." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/10863.
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A necessidade por parte dos utilizadores das Bibliotecas de Saúde, de possuir informação com evidência científica, concisa e móvel no decorrer da sua prática clínica e académica diária, por forma a minimizar os erros de diagnóstico, tem constituído um grave problema para estes profissionais de saúde, que necessitam de ter junto de si uma biblioteca portátil 24 horas por dia. Os PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), pela sua portabilidade e acessibilidade, poderão solucionar este problema, tendo vindo a ser introduzidos com êxito, os serviços para PDAs nas Bibliotecas de Saúde. São objectivos deste estudo, contribuir para a implementação de novos serviços de referência de apoio à decisão dos utilizadores das Bibliotecas de Saúde em Portugal, com recurso aos PDAs, por forma a garantir-lhes autonomia e mobilidade nos seus locais de trabalho, indagando as bibliotecas de saúde portuguesas e europeias, sobre esta nova oportunidade de intervir no apoio aos seus utilizadores e averiguando que tipo de serviços estão dispostas a oferecer. A metodologia utilizada foi o inquérito por questionário, às Bibliotecas de Saúde Portuguesas e Europeias, assim como, entrevistas a utilizadores de PDAs em medicina. Concluiu-se, que a utilização de PDAs em medicina é já um processo irreversível, sendo missão das Bibliotecas de Saúde Portuguesas, acompanhar a evolução destas tecnologias móveis, por forma a introduzi-las gradualmente, nos futuros serviços prestados aos seus utilizadores. BSTRACT,
Implementation of Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) reference services in portuguesa health libraries
There is an increasing need felt by the health library users for obtaining accurate, up to date, evidence-based and mobile scientific information in their daily clinica) practice. This need to reduto diagnostic errors, save time and achieve the best decision-making for their patients, has became a serious problem to this group of health professionals, claiming more often to have next to itself, a portable library open 24 hours a day.
Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) have been successfully introduced finto the health libraries environment and give the users the opportunity to have the most recent and scientific information In the palm of their hands".
The main objective is to contributo to the implementation of user reference services based in PDAs, in Portuguese Health Libraries in order to guarantee our health professional users, autonomy and mobility in their work placas near the patients.
We afim to know, if the Portugese and European Health Libraries, are fully aware of the strengths and power of these new kinds of services based on PDAs, giving them the chance to offer the adjusted help to this new user needs.
The methodology used is based on online surveys, submitted to Portuguese and European Health Libraries, and by interviews conducted with a group of selected expert health users of PDAs, in medicine.
We concluded that using PDAs, is the future in Medicine and the mission of health libraries is to offer services based on mobile technologies such as PDAs, if they want to serve their users with excelente
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Shih, Yi-Ju, and 石憶茹. "The Diffusion Model of Personal Digital Assistant." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/20335078579570385221.
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碩士<br>中國文化大學<br>國際企業管理研究所<br>89<br>Although new technology is innovated everyday and new products present con-tinuously, the failure rate of new product sales presentation is still high due to the high risk of new products sales. We could make new products more successful if we can forecast the market correctly. This study took Bass model as base and then added price and advertising expenditure to create a new and better diffusion model. This study took Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) as a sample.
This study took price, sales and advertising expenditure as analysis data, from De-cember 1999 to November 2000. The data come from Taiwan Information Industry sta-tistics Journal, Taiwan import/export statistics Journal, and Rainmarker Company.
According the study, diffuse ability and forecasting ability of this diffusion model is better than either Bass model or Robinson & Lakhani model. In diffusion model of PDA, the influence of public praise is stronger than mass media. The relationship be-tween price and sales is negative, which means sales will increase when price is de-crease. The relationship between advertising expenditure and innovative value is posi-tive, which means innovative value will increase when advertising expenditure increase. Therefore, the study suggests that PDA promotion can begin with educate opinion lead-ers to get more consumers. Besides, this diffusion model and Robinson and Lakhani model’s price sensitive value is small, which means the sales increasing effect according to price decrease is limited. The better way is establishing product difference instead of a price war.
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Tseng, chien-Chi, and 曾千綺. "Analyzing Development Trend of Personal Digital Assistant." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39551976967725636613.
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碩士<br>國立交通大學<br>科技管理所<br>89<br>With the increasing popularity of Information Appliance and the rising demand of wireless communications, PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) has become one of the most famous consumer electronic products. First announced in 1993 by Apple, PDA’s market share grew up significantly at 1996 when Palm Computing launched its main product “Pilot 100”. After Microsoft and Symbian joined the market as the PDA OS providers, the competition of PDA industry started. With the development of wireless communicating and various applications, the future of PDA is predicted optimistically.
Besides the related reference literature, there are interviews with experts and case analysis. This research explores the trend of PDA and summarizes the competition advantages of the main PDA OS: Palm OS, WinCE, EPOC, and Linux. Moreover, this thesis discusses the future opportunities in wireless communications area.
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Liu, Chun-Hung, and 劉峻宏. "Wireless Remote Monitoring Utilizing Personal Digital Assistant System." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24093902444982178894.
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碩士<br>中原大學<br>機械工程研究所<br>90<br>The purpose of this research is to develop a wireless remote monitoring system under the operation system of PDA. Through the connection of TCP/IP on the Ethernet, the codes in the system can be transferred to the PC Servers for capturing the images transmitted from a camera, adjusting the imaging focus, and driving the motors installed on the camera mount.
This system is equipped with wireless connection to set up the Server and Client, a PC and a PDA, respectively, to transmit the images. In general these images are first captured by the Server. An image detector is then used to select the targeted images. An image interpolation technique is used to minimize the image sizes. Finally, after the process of compression and division according to the format of JPEG, these images are transmitted. On the other hand, the Client (PDA) receives and assembles the targeted images and time sequences and then the real-time images can be obtained with the format of Motion JEPG. At the mean time, the control codes are sent to controller through the RS-232, to drive the step Motor and move the speed dome camera into targeted position.
Utilizing the proposed wireless system, experimental results show that one image with a size of 240ｘ320 pixels and a compression of 95%, can be transmitted within 2.7 second through the local area network.
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Sun, Yi-Chun, and 孫益君. "Speech recognition application system on Personal Digital Assistant." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/91974776527972249269.
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碩士<br>中原大學<br>資訊工程研究所<br>92<br>This paper presents a new approach to design a speech recognition system. The user can use speech voice to operate equipments in remote place. The first step of the procedure is to analysis the speech signal to get speech features. The second step is to establish a neural network, for the purpose of speech recognition.
The model of neural network method uses Black Propagation Network (BPN). The speech features extraction uses the methods of Linear Predictive Coefficient (LPC) and Cepstrum. The Black Propagation Network import the 280 numbers of speech feature to train the neural model until the neural model has be convergent. Then, user input a speech command to the system. The neural model will recognize the command.
The system is established on Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and connected with computer system as its remote server. When user input speech command to PDA, the PDA will recognize speech and execute the commands. Then, the remote server will take action on equipment according to the command of the speech. The remote server has a basic ability of image analysis, and can transfer the image, which take from remote field, back to the command side.
When server interface with it peripherals, the RS-232 serial data transfer standard is used, via this channel the command signals are implement to control the remote equipment. In order to enhance the ability of application an Infra-Red and a Radio wave transmitter receiver interface card are equipped.
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Huan_Da, Tseng, and 曾煥達. "Usage of personal digital assistant at the mobile telemedicine." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37386296095158627914.
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碩士<br>亞東技術學院<br>資訊與通訊工程研究所<br>94<br>Due to the administration of the National Health Insurance in an all-round way, people improve to request medical service quality day by day. Medical institutes, besides traditional medical service, should be devoted to improving and promoting medical service quality, offer medical treatment more convenient to be more effective service. Because of the heterogeneity of time that clinic doctor looks and examines in every development of medical institutes, patients who want to see a doctor and accept the medical care must base on the examining time of the doctor. Moreover, the patients that chronic illness or need tracked diagnosis for a long time would make the doctor unable to grasp their newest state effectively due to the uncertainty of physiology changes. Often when the patients go to a doctor, it was found that the severity of the condition, or unable to discover in transient seeing examining time then the patients’ condition is treated within effective time. Therefore, it would cause the low of medical service quality and the waste of medical resources.
E-Health is to make the best of the modern technology to solve the need of people for disease treatment and prevention, and it is completed by using personal computer (PC) mostly. But PC isn’t portable so that user couldn’t get prompt service. Therefore, the developing direction of long-range medical care already trends to omnipresent medical care (u-Health).
U-Health mainly provides the service that the people can enjoy e-Health no matter nowhere. In order to reach the idea of u-Health, it was proposed a medical auxiliary diagnostic and treatment information service system which made use of preventive and auxiliary operational platform as the basis in this study. Firstly, this platform could offer patients to utilize and diagnose auxiliary that diagnose and measure oneself in the action platform. Then through measuring the database, expert’s knowledge base and making policy to support the mechanism, it could also reach the function of diagnose, look after, management of self-health, and reminding going to a doctor. Secondly, by using to promote medical service quality, it could offer sufficient seeing the information of examining to patients, and estimate to and examine time effectively in advance, promote the accuracy, instant that hospital manages the performance and strengthens the disease and diagnoses and the patient one is seen and examining the quality of serving.
For the highly portable, aplenty memory, and low power consumptions of personal digital assistant (PDA), the objectives of this study were to use PDA as a platform, and to combine Bluetooth with general packet radio service (GPRS) to achieve the transmission function of communication. We also designed a retrieved circuit of physiological signal that has enabled patients to transmit one’s own physiological signal including body temperature and heart rate to the circuit. Then via the conversion of circuit from analog to digital, and to deal with digitized signals, we finally transmit these to PDA by Bluetooth technology. After data are collected by PDA, all information would transmit to doctor’s computer (the server carried far) by GPRS communication to accomplish the action of medical treatment far.
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Chen, Chung-hung, and 陳政亨. "A Digital Personal Assistant For iPhone－Photos Application Subsystem." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/vc28q8.
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碩士<br>國立臺灣科技大學<br>電機工程系<br>99<br>Because of the spread of smart phones in these years, people become more frequent to surf on the Internet and take pictures via cell phones, making people to change their behaviors on sharing and managing their photos. The rise of online communities makes people get used to the life of sharing photos with friends through the Internet. The traditional way of developing photos, replaced by digitization, is fading out. Therefore, how to adequately manage vast digital database and how to conveniently connect individuals with his or her social groups become sine qua non.
The purpose of this thesis is to successfully create an system of photos on the operating system of iOS, and the main idea of the thesis is to provide a managing system of photos, which has advantages for users to sufficiently manage a great number of photos and to easily connect with online communities and other online transmissions, achieving the goal of sharing photos. Also, this thesis combines with Contact Information Management Subsystem and Scheduling Management Subsystem, building an organized personal digital assistant.
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Huang, Cheng-Yu, and 黃正宇. "A Digital Personal Assistant for iPhone - Scheduling Management Subsystem." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/d5f9w8.
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碩士<br>國立臺灣科技大學<br>電機工程系<br>99<br>In these years, the smartphones have developed rapidly and spread widely, turning smartphones from hardware-oriented to software service-oriented. Because of the smartphones, integrated with our daily lives, smartphones connect with our daily lives tightly even with scheduling, memorandum, daily reminder, and media entertainment whatsoever, making a rise in download times of mobile apps. Albeit App Store has a greater number of apps, including schedule management and software of memorandum recording, the multi – functional software, integrating schedule with memorandum, is barely to find on App Store.
This thesis is to create multi – functional scheduling management system, applying to iPhone on the platform of iOS. This system possesses eight functions of calendar, to-do, memo, idea, diary, call meeting, meeting minutes and searching, providing inserting images, audio files and information of contacts. It also combines with iPhone photo library, drawing board, Contact Information Management Subsystem and Photos Application Subsystem as source of images and contacts and enhances the contents of records. The contents of records can be shared to contacts whose were included in the records.
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Huang, Kuo-Shu, and 黃國書. "The Application of Personal Digital Assistant on Home Automation System." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/81026909581308514977.
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碩士<br>國立臺灣科技大學<br>電機工程系<br>92<br>Networked and mobile digital information fuses rapidly into our living environment in response to the progress of IT technologies and its widespread penetration with the popularity of mobile communication. It changes the limitation of time and space. Applications such as intelligent home, information appliance, and intelligent building find their wide adoption and influence in our home environment.
Though the application of information network is popular, there still exist faults of network instability, information access timing, and high monthly online charge, occurring during Internet transmission through multiple servers across different geographical locations. Notebook PC has merits of superb performance and mobility, thanks to recent Centrino technology of Intel. However its application as a SCADA GUI carrier still suffer the inconvenience of size and weight limitations. As a result, PDA, combined with wireless communication technologies, is being adopted for various real time applications of information exchange and transmission accessed by any people at anywhere and anytime. This newly adopted application of mobile technologies enables not only flexible enterprise business process operation and personal societal transactions but also profound change in home automation industry.
The purpose of this thesis starts with PDA as the design platform and adopt the point-to-point message transmission method of GSM wireless communication technology to simplify and mobilize the traditional home automation system. LonWorks technology, which finds its wide applications in home automation, is employed as control networking platform and is interfaced with Win CE OS environment to run the application software of [Home Application Management System] on PDA. We here have been setup a demonstration system and exhibit our progress. By taking advantage of GSM worldwide accessibility, we like to propose a total solution for highly mobile and convenient home automation SCADA application.
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Huang, Guo-shien, and 黃國賢. "Application Research of Personal Digital Assistant on Highway Survey Calculation." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37620933965533972096.
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碩士<br>朝陽科技大學<br>營建工程系碩士班<br>96<br>Abstract
As the civilization and industrialization advances significantly in the past several centuries, types of calculators have been used by the human-being as a very effective tool for development in many aspects. It is even more remarkable when the electronic type calculator has been introduced into the industries since 1960’s, especially for engineering calculations with tremendous improvements and advancements in precision and efficiency. The purpose of the study was to explore the feasibility of utilizing the currently commercially available Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) in the calculation of survey operations, with emphases placed on hardware and software developments, case calculation from actual construction project, and potential applications using the results of the study.
With the use of the Visual Basic.Net software development platform and traditional highway survey calculation formula, the study developed a capable and user-friendly software for the field surveyors using the PDA. The developed software can be used in lieu of some commonly used but complicated interface software in engineering calculators to help field surveyors obtain accurate results in more efficient manners, thus advance the capabilities and performances of the engineers.
In addition to the general survey calculations, the software developed in the study can also be integrated with other related computer software and hardware to expand its functions as listed below:
1) Development of converging formulas for tunnel survey calculation using the linear calculation capability of the software.
2) The software may be combined with other cutting-edge technologies to develop an automatic system which could be used to operate the survey devices using the PDA as a comprehensive overall survey station.
3) The software can be utilized by the construction supervising personnel in the field with its functions in automation and wireless data transfer.
Keywords: PDA, survey calculation, construction automation
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Hsu, Yu-Chieh, and 徐毓傑. "A Digital Personal Assistant For iPhone － Contact Information Management Subsystem." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4z9j92.
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碩士<br>國立臺灣科技大學<br>電機工程系<br>99<br>Today, the 3G(Third Generation) network is getting more and more developed, the mobile phone which has the communication ability has already been changed from function-oriented hardware (ex : communication) to service-oriented software (ex : multimedia). Because the amount of smart phone users increase fast, there are getting more and more application software of the smart phone.
The purpose of this thesis is to design and implement a multifunction phonebook based on the iPhone iOS platform to improve the original address book in iPhone and the application with only one function. With our research, data base and necessary software (photo manager system and calendar/meeting minute manage system), users not only make a phone call or send message, but define their own communication group as well as send the message or E-mail to the group member. When user selects one contact person, they can look over all of the pictures which has been tagged in the photo manager data base. And they also can read the information for calendar or meeting minute with this contact by using the calendar/meeting minute manage system. Besides, user can browse contact’s FaceBook, Plurk, Twitter and Blog which are defined by the user.
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Wu, Chih-Hao, and 吳智豪. "The Development of Windows Operational Interface for Personal Digital Assistant." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/996we8.
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碩士<br>國立成功大學<br>工業設計學系碩博士班<br>92<br>Because of the information and electronic technology becoming more prosperous, the information products have already been the important thing for users in modern life. Currently, PDA has been the popular information product in the market. The PDA can help people to deal with their personal things anytime and anywhere.
However the operation system interface of the computer or PDA, they are the design of graphic user interface. This form of interface uses the icon for people to operate every function and uses many kinds of the frameworks to let users to operate any function in the interface.
This research investigates the metaphor images from users and then designs the icons with the same form for the interface. By using the objects-action interface model is to re-analyze the frameworks of the interface. Finally, this research develops a new graphic user interface for the PDA operation system and uses the usability engineering to evaluate the interface.
According to the needs of different users and different company or the trends of the information technology, the forms of the PDA operation system interface have many kinds. The design of the interface in this research is one of the many kinds of interfaces and this study hopes to propose the users a friendly and more joyful design of the interface.
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Hsiao, Yen-shen, and 蕭炎森. "An exploratory study on the Personal Digital Assistant under Mobile Computing." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/rjgg8a.
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碩士<br>中原大學<br>資訊管理研究所<br>91<br>With the improvement of information technology and common use of wireless internet, mobile computing equipments, such as wireless internet applied skills integrated with Personal Digital Assistants are more accepted by electronic enterprise and major users. Due to the stronger functioning and smaller size, products users are able to use them for recording more easily and dealing with routines and stuff related to business.
Traditionally because of the limitation of time and space, most people at work lose their good opportunities in business. This research paper is mainly focused on comparing the differences between new instant mobile computing and old non-instant Personal Digital Assistants. Besides there are some discussions about the functions and efficiency of new ideas. What’s more, by discussing the trendy mobile equipment PDA, it examines the work abilities of new Always on-line mobile computing conceptive system. Therefore this research paper offers electronic enterprise comparative references on the development of mobile computing system.
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周昇龍. "Impementation of global positioning system with integrated embedded personal digital assistant." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/83978799814117909573.
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碩士<br>國立臺灣科技大學<br>電子工程系<br>91<br>In the future, there will be a lot of job opportunities for mobile worker, therefore personal mobile device is very important. A multi-function personal mobile device will then be the future trends. Due to a mobile worker main task isn’t done at the office, therefore, information must be able to be retrieved immediately and applied efficiently.
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) is suitable for the personal mobile device, not only it can save individual’s works. By integrating with other devices, such as GPS, wireless network equipment device, mobile phone device etc. This will then become a multi-function personal mobile device.
This dissertation (thesis) focus on integration of PDA and GPS. It will enable hands-on workers to locate current location by using the GPS system. The structure of the system has been completed, via the use of RS-232, it can receive the data such as altitude, longitude from GPS. In the future, more applications can be applied, to make better PDAs.
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黃文成. "The Study on Production Strategy＆Business Model of Personal Digital Assistant." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98142368982701310890.
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碩士<br>國立臺北科技大學<br>商業自動化與管理研究所<br>90<br>After the PC and Notebook PC products in the IT（Information Technology）industry , the Personal Digital Assistant will grow into the mostly potential product on the IA （Information Appliance） industry in the future . During the IA industry business chain , the BTO（Build To Order）or CTO（Configuration To Order）has become the important strategy of supply chain , that is one precious part which relates to the existence of the PDA industry, also has a strong advantage issue in Global Logistic Management .
The purpose of this research is to construct the business model of the PDA industry, what kind of the productive strategic decision models will useful for the cooperation of up and down stream as a business philosophy, that supply channel processes includes the manufactures, suppliers, transporters, warehouses, retailers, and customers.
This research uses the System Dynamics Approach, which could able to transform complex interactive feedback loops into mathematical equation systems, to build the SCM model and analyze the success of different SCM strategies within different manufacturing model in the marketing circumstance. Scenarios Analysis methodology applies in this research is used to investigate the predicted impacts to the industry. The scenarios for system dynamics analysis include:
(1) industrial situation, (2) supply chain partnership exists inventory variation, (3) stream of products in marketing situation, and (4) time to market situation.
The statistical procedures are used to compare the efficiency between different strategies under the scenarios. By simulating all the variables and observing their dynamic behavior, the result shows that the PDA and parts exist inventory and marketing respond. The upstream inventory oscillation does affect the downstream inventory. It also shows the distorted order information will cause amplification through the supply chain.
Moreover, together with supply chain partnership collaboration, PDA industry can consolidate their competitive advantages, should be integrated into cooperation of up and down stream operation and strategic planning. This will build up the results in this research, in order to survive global competition, PDA industry OEM/ODM/OBM business plan need to can match and implement winning and own competitive strategies.
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Hsu, Ming-yuan, and 徐敏原. "Design and Implementation of a Personal Digital Assistant─Document, Personal Information and Contact Information Management." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/36483169615310001130.
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碩士<br>國立臺灣科技大學<br>電機工程系<br>100<br>In these years, the smart mobile devices have developed rapidly and spread widely, have became a part of many people’s life. The smart mobile devices can expand the functionality by downloading the applications, such as document management system, password management system and schedule management system, etc. Although there are many kinds of applications, but the application which integrated multiple functions is a handful.
This thesis integrated three different types of subsystem, document management subsystem, password management subsystem and contact management subsystem, to develop an iPad personal digital assistant based on iOS. “Document management subsystem” uses the concept of multiuser, combined with cloud services and project and schedule management subsystem. Projects and meetings can attach files from document management subsystem, and users can browse projects or meetings information through the reference files. “Password management subsystem” protects the user password information content by using virtual information and AES encryption. “Contact management subsystem” provides the user to manage personal contact information, users can watch the contact related projects, meetings and photos. This thesis implements a multi-function personal digital assistant through information sharing between each system.