Mobile Context Awareness

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lovett, Tom (Editor), O'Neill, Eamonn (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2012.
• Subjects: Computer science.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Application software.; Computers and civilization.; Personal computers.; Computer Science.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.; Computers and Society.; Personal Computing.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Modeling Success, Failure, and Intent of Multi-Agent Activities Under Severe Noise
• Energy Accuracy Trade-offs of Sensor Sampling in Smart Phone based Sensing Systems
• Acceleration Noise Correction for Transfer Inference Using Accelerometers on Mobile Devices
• Mobile Sensing of User’s Motion and Position Context for Automatic Check-in Suggestion and Validation
• The Case for Context-Aware Resources Management in Mobile Operating Systems
• A Scalable Sensor Middleware for Social End-User Programming
• Mobile Context-Aware Support for Public Transportation Systems
• Quality Sensitive Web Service Profiling and Discovery: In support of Mobile and Pervasive Applications
• A Middleware Supporting Adaptive and Context-Aware Mobile Applications.