Mobile context awareness

The importance of context in computer science has increased in recent decades as computers have become ever more pervasive in everyday life. Context awareness - the idea that computers can sense and react to a user's situation - has been a popular research topic for a number of years. Its appea...

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Other Authors: Lovett, Tom., O'Neill, Eamonn., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: London ; New York : Springer, ©2012.
London ; New York : [2012]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 186 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Series: Human/computer interaction ; 10.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction /
  • Tom Lovett and Eamonn O'Neill
  • Modeling Success, Failure, and Intent of Multi-Agent Activities Under Severe Noise /
  • Adam Sadilek and Henry Kautz
  • Energy-Accuracy Trade-offs of Sensor Sampling in Smart Phone Based Sensing Systems /
  • Kiran K. Rachuri, Cecilia Mascolo and Mirco Musolesi
  • Acceleration Noise Correction for Transfer Inference Using Accelerometers on Mobile Devices /
  • Hisao Setoguchi, Yuzo Okamoto, Naoki Iketani, Kenta Cho and Masanori Hattori, et al.
  • Mobile Sensing of User's Motion and Position Context for Automatic Check-in Suggestion and Validation /
  • Cristina Frà, Massimo Valla, Alessio Agneessens, Igor Bisio and Fabio Lavagetto
  • The Case for Context-Aware Resources Management in Mobile Operating Systems /
  • Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez and Jon Crowcroft
  • A Scalable Sensor Middleware for Social End-User Programming /
  • Salvador Faria and Vassilis Kostakos
  • Mobile Context-Aware Support for Public Transportation Users /
  • Esben von Buchwald, Jakob Eg Larsen and Roderick Murray-Smith
  • Quality Sensitive Web Service Profiling and Discovery: In Support of Mobile and Pervasive Applications /
  • Sherif G. Aly and Ahmed M. Hamza
  • A Middleware Supporting Adaptive and Context-Aware Mobile Applications /
  • Lincoln David, José Viterbo, Marcelo Malcher, Hubert Fonseca and Gustavo Baptista, et al.