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The latest technology craze on mobile devices, augmented reality (AR) has been around for many years, predating the era of the smartphone. AR aims to supplement information in layers on top of an actual image, as seen through a mobile device's camera. The resultant image can then be displayed on screen. All of this has been made possible thanks to a number of technologies that are now found on smartphones...
With the growing number of smartphone users, peer-to-peer ad hoc content sharing is expected to occur more often. Thus, new content sharing mechanisms should be developed as traditional data delivery schemes are not efficient for content sharing due to the sporadic connectivity between smartphones. To accomplish data delivery in such challenging environments, researchers have proposed the use of store-carry-forward...
Mobile social applications that allow users to share presence, opinions and recommendations about places are spreading rapidly. Among these, check-in applications are becoming increasingly popular, but present some issues. In this paper we illustrate a system to exploit user's context to perform automatic check-in validation and suggestion. A description of the system architecture and its technical...
The paper introduces an approach to automatically recognize people's activity patterns within an “intelligent” building. We envisage a model of interactions with a smart phone and building. Various sensors in smart phone enable to recognize daily routine of people's activities automatically in building. The smart phone application; `Activity Pattern Recognition in Mobile Environment (APRiME)' recognized...
Recognizing the transportation modes of people's daily living is an important research issue in the pervasive computing. Prior research in this field mainly uses Global Positioning System (GPS), Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) or their combination with accelerometer to recognize transportation modes, such as walking, driving, etc. In this paper, we will introduce transportation mode...
Obesity prevention requires individuals to have healthy eating and physical activity awareness in their daily lives. New technological products have been explored to help monitoring individual health behaviors. Smart phones are ubiq-uitous hand-held tools with rich embedded sensors and limited computing power. A smart phone is a prospective candidate to integrate physical exercise analysis and food...
An important tool for evaluating the health of patients who suffer from mobility-affecting chronic diseases such as MS, Parkinson's, and muscular dystrophy is assessment of how much they walk. Ambulation is a mobility monitoring system that uses Android and Nokia N95 mobile phones to automatically detect the user's mobility mode. The user's only required interaction with the phone is turning it on...
As the world continues to enhance and strengthen its emergency services, mobile phones may be used to aid in safe driving practices and detection of emergencies. To our knowledge, no work has been reported in understanding vehicle motion using accelerometers/compass in cell phones. In this paper, we used the multiple sensors in a Google phone to classify safe versus unsafe driving. In particular,...
Applications of 3 dimensional (3-D) virtual reality are now possible on current mobile phones due to the advances in mobile 3-D graphics technologies. However, the user-interface to these applications is generally still limited to the basic phone keypad which detracts from the sophisticated experience 3-D worlds can provide. In this paper we present a solution to this problem which utilizes the accelerometers...
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