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Beacons are small Bluetooth low energy (BLE) signal emitting devices that can transmit data about their location, temperature, motion etc. Various startups have commercialized Beacon based applications, such as for tracking valuable items, micro-location targeting of people, micro payments etc. However, these applications are not customizable beyond the use cases they were designed to serve. We feel...
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...
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...
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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