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This paper discusses the design and development efforts made to collect data using an opportunistic crowdsensing mobile application. Relevant issues are underlined, and solutions proposed within the CHIST-ERA Macaco project for the specifics of collecting fine-grained content and context data are highlighted. Global statistics on the data gathered for over a year of collection show its quality: Macaco...
Mobile data offloading through WiFi is an essential requirement to reduce cellular network traffic. While extensive attempts have been made at mobile data offloading, previous studies have rarely addressed practical issues, such as dealing with diverse user contexts. In this paper, we propose a personalized data offloading scheme to provide maximum throughput within the cellular budget in daily life...
We study the consumer selection of mobile platforms through switching costs and network effects. We operationalize switching costs using five dimensions (search cost, learning cost, contractual cost, complementary investments, brand relationship cost) and network effects using two dimensions (same and cross side network effects). We draw on four focus groups to empirically address the selection problem...
In the last years, research about context-aware systems has been particularly intense. Nevertheless, most of the proposed approaches and systems failed to flow from research to industry. In this paper we propose ANARC, a library that eases the development of network-aware applications for smartphones. ANARC does not try to cope with all the possible meanings and variations of context, it instead focuses...
Today smart phones integrate many sensors and provide large computing capacities. They enable the shift towards massive quantities of real-time information becoming access push rather than demand pull on a global case. In this we describe CAPIM, a platform to support such a paradigm. It integrates services to monitor and a context for adapt with the user's context using sensors and capabilities of...
Today smart phones integrate many sensors and provide large computing capacities. They enable the shift towards massive quantities of real-time information becoming access push rather than demand pull on a global case. In this we describe CAPIM, a platform to support such a paradigm. It integrates services to monitor and a context for adapt with the user's context using sensors and capabilities of...
As smartphones integrate more sensors and provide larger computing capacities, they enable a shift towards massive quantities of real-time information becoming access push rather than demand pull on a global case. We present a platform for supporting generic context-aware mobile applications. It is composed of a monitoring layer, capable of collecting and aggregating data from various sensors related...
With the recent popularization of smart phones, context sharing systems in mobile environment attract attention of people. Mobile context sharing systems can share more information than web-based social network services because they have various sensors. For sharing high-level contexts such as activity and emotion, a user had to manually annotate them in previous works. This paper proposes a mobile...
We envision a sensor-enabled mobile system to assist organizers and participants of public events in emergencies and evacuation situations using human computing principles. By autonomously detecting elements of emergent collective behavior (e.g. clogging, queuing, herding), efficient interaction and information sharing with specific groups in the crowd is enabled. We have previously shown the technological...
The recent impressive diffusion of smartphones in the mobile industry offers new opportunities to mobile services vendors. One of the most influenced service categories are location-based services. In the present study we investigate the use of location-based services. Based on insights from behavioural decision making a theoretical framework is developed to analyse the individual decision to use...
Available doorbell interphone systems are designed under the assumption that residents would be at home to enable the communication between them and their visitors. However, people spend a large fraction of their time away from home, thus undermining the basic assumptions of existing doorbell solutions. Recent developments in 3GPP Home Node B (HNB or Femtocell) and home gateway technologies, along...
In recent years, we witness the rise of communicative and contextualized approaches in language learning theories concomitant with developments in the paradigm of Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL). In this paper, we present two novel case studies in MALL that emphasize "creative learner outputs". In learning English prepositions and Chinese idioms respectively, students in the two...
Two significant but independent trends in recent years are the popularity of social networking applications and the adoption of mobile devices, notably smart phones. The current generation of smart phones are pocket computers that, compared to their predecessors, are relatively well resourced. Existing support for social networking tends to take the form of Web-based applications that are accessed...
Modern Smartphones are the fastest growing computing platforms capable of consuming Web services. However, due to their form factor these mobile computing devices face many challenges and constrains when engaging service providers. How to overcome these challenges and how to link smartphones to the service cloud is one of the key issues that will have a major impact on the further growth of the software-as-a-service...
Mobile learning is transforming the way of tradition education. But most of e-learning system and contents are not suitable for mobile device. In order to provide suitable mobile learning services, the approach for self-adaptation is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the formal definitions of context and its influence on learning service, including NCxt, side S, weighing Q and adaptation coefficient...
With appearance of mobile devices such as cell phones, PDAs and smart phones, context-aware applications are becoming increasingly popular. Therefore, developers are always seeking for new and powerful developing tools for context-aware programming. Developers prefer to use fast and convenient development tools that can support all required possibilities for implementing a complete and user-friendly...
Emerging rich wireless networking modalities facilitate the development of new intelligent, innovative services on smart phones. The authors propose a ubiquitous phone (UbiPhone) system that demonstrates innovative context-aware human-centric phone services, which could become available on smart phones. UbiPhone's features include UbiCall, AnyCall, and an emergency contact service.
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