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Managing the growing influx of notification data being pushed at mobile phone users is an increasing necessity in today's world of social media and ubiquitous computing. The challenge of effectively managing a diverse range of notification types, and analyzing their current context with relation to an individual user, is a difficult task. This paper proposes a notification management framework which...
Developing commercial multimodal interfaces to date has been accommodation of the practical aspect of usability of the application. The advent of advanced mobile devices in combination with new interaction modalities and methods, opens new possibilities in user interface adaptation. In this paper we propose a framework to enhance the user interaction of a social network mobile application with multimodal...
In this paper, we propose and assess SWAPN, a useful, novel and intelligent dream tool to study the impending multimedia technologies and to help the visually challenged as well as aged persons to overcome their disabilities. Recently, there were many research studies conducted related to human-machine systems available to help visually challenged people to reassure themselves to the outside world...
An emerging research in pervasive computing is the inference of social context to facilitate and mediate communications among proximate people. Understanding users' needs through information reasoning and leveraging principles of social networks play an important role in the emergence of innovative computer-mediated social networks. This paper introduces a generic social networking framework for the...
The emergence of location-aware mobile social networking applications (SNAs) has gained considerable prominence in ubiquitous computing. However, the weak designs of privacy protection result in more potential risks that users have to face. This paper presents a deep insight into the designs of privacy protection, especially from the perspective of location privacy. Three main potential risks and...
Nowadays Social Networking phenomenon is gaining a significant momentum. Social Network's users are disclosing a lot of information about their relationships, profiles, preferences and interests. In this paper we describe the achievement of a context Aware platform which leverages a user's Social graph to provide pervasive computing applications based on context awareness. The platform's goal is to...
In any systems or environments within a ubiquitous computing context that promotes the concept of users interaction or inter-organization communication, more specifically data sharing and takes users within such context as relevant contextual information, there is the potential for interactions between systems to occur that may affect the security of the overall system. We present a scenario that...
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...
Context-aware services, such as location-based services, augmented reality applications, smart enterprise or assisted living applications, constitute a cornerstone of the Future Internet. One important part of such applications is context information that describes the situation in which users consume the service. While earlier context referred mainly to location information provided by network operators,...
Human activity is highly influenced by the context and environment of the user. Presence of other users in the vicinity can also influence the context of use and thus activity. In ubiquitous computing environments, people are surrounded by numerous computing devices helping them to carry out various tasks. However, users seek precise and fine-grained information that is not provided by the computing...
Visible Past proposes a new class of interdisciplinary learning, documenting, knowledge production, and discovery experiences that are anchored in space and time indicators. The project is supported by a ubiquitous computing platform with Wiki, implicit social networking, and location aware capabilities. The environment can be used as an integrated framework for enhancing learning and research in...
Mobile-enabled social networks applications are becoming increasingly popular. Most of the current social network applications have been designed for high-end mobile devices, and they rely upon features such as GPS, capabilities of the World Wide Web, and rich media support. However, a significant fraction of mobile user base, especially in the developing world, own low-end devices that are only capable...
As more and more content migrates to the Internet, ldquopersonalrdquo video choices are becoming the norm not the exception. The impact of Internet content and IP based business of video distribution is still difficult to evaluate. However, there is obviously no turning back as this content pervades the home and the community. Driven in large part by the near-ubiquitous IP-based communication services,...
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.
Assistive technology so far has been focusing on promoting greater independence for people with disabilities by enabling them to perform tasks on a personal basis. Assistive technology that leverages networks of caregivers, who may be nomadic or even remain on the go constantly, has not been developed into useful services or even explored systematically. In this paper, we first propose a general architecture...
Mobile, delay-tolerant, ad hoc and pocket-switched networks may form an important part of future ubiquitous computing environments. Understanding how to efficiently and effectively route information through such networks is an important research challenge, and much recent work has looked at detecting communities and cliques to determine forwarding paths. Such detected communities, however, may miss...
This paper presents a novel approach to help rendezvous between a group of people by means of their own mobile device. The group is dynamically created and consists of pedestrians who take part to a common activity, share a common context and have some kind of social relationship. When the rendezvous is called by a group member, he/she becomes the group leader and a light-weight path-solving algorithm...
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