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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Context Aware Computing"”.
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A user-centred design framework for context-aware computing
… and promising application areas of mobile context-aware computing have emerged in recent years, such as tourist guides and navigation systems for visually impaired people. However, many researchers express grave concerns about the limited appreciation of human and social issues in design: …
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An architecture for context-aware applications
The recent convergence of ubiquitous computing and context-aware computing has seen a considerable rise in interest in applications that exploit aspects of the contextual environment to offer services, present information, tailor application behavior or trigger adaptation. However, as a result of …
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A software development framework for context-aware systems
… potential of such advancements. Particularly, context-aware computing is at the core of many areas such as Intelligent Environments, Ambient Intelligence, Ambient Assisted Living or Pervasive Computing. Embedding contextual awareness into computers promises a fundamental enhancement in the …
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Sensor-driven computing
A context-aware computing system is one that can deduce the state of its surroundings using input from sensors and can change its behaviour accordingly. Context-aware devices might personalise themselves to their current user, alter their functionality based on where they were being used, or take …
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Context detection and abstraction in smart environments
Context-aware computing is currently considered the most promising approach to overcome information overload and to speed up access to relevant information and services. Context-awareness may be derived from many sources, including user profile and preferences, network information, sensor analysis; …
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An adaptive modelling infrastructure for context-aware mobile computing
Context provides information about the present status of people, places, things, network and devices in the environment. Context-awareness refers to the use of context information for an application to adapt its functionality to the current context of use. Development of context-aware applications …
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Guided real time sampling using mobile electronic diaries
… that are shown to be easily usable by non-computing users. Pocket Interview includes an option that allows this sampling to be ‘Guided’ whereby inconvenient prompts are temporarily deferred until a more convenient time through the use of contextual audio information. Subjects participating …
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Self-adaptation via concurrent multi-action evaluation for unknown context
Context-aware computing has been attracting growing attention in recent years. Generally, there are several ways for a context-aware system to select a course of action for a particular change of context. One way is for the system developers to encompass all possible context changes in the domain …
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A Distributed Architecture for Computing Context in Mobile Devices
Context-aware computing aims at making mobile devices sensitive to the social and physical settings in which they are used. A necessary requirement to achieve this goal is to enable those devices to establish a shared understanding of the desired settings. Establishing a shared understanding …
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Design of platforms for computing context with spatio-temporal locality
This dissertation is in the area of pervasive computing. It focuses on designing platforms for storing, querying, and computing contextual information. More specifically, we are interested in platforms for storing and querying spatio-temporal events where queries exhibit locality. Recent advances …
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A Study of Methods in Computational Psychophysiology for Incorporating Implicit Affective Feedback in Intelligent Environments
… compute-infrastructure to an extent that Context-Aware Intelligent Environment (CAIE)--physical spaces with computing systems embedded in it--are increasingly commonplace. With the widespread adoption of intelligent personal agents proliferating as close to us as our living rooms, there is …
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Trajectory Analysis for Event Detection in Ambient Intelligence Applications
… domains would benefit of such an analysis, from context-aware computing, to area monitoring and surveillance, to assistive technologies for elderly or disabled, and more. In a broad sense, we can define the activity analysis as the problem of finding an explanation coherent with a set of …
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Multimedia Content Analysis for Event Detection
… from a set visual media (i.e., the situation and context). Both problems will be addressed trying to avoid making strong a-priori assumptions, i.e., considering the largely unstructured and variable nature of events.As to the first methodology, we will discuss about events related to the behavior …
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Crowdsourcing Mobile Data for Indoor Positioning
Indoor positioning is a key enabler for context-aware computing. Applications such as navigation, tracking, monitoring, spatial programming and location-based information sharing require the accurate and timely inputs of users' indoor positions. Signal fingerprinting, as a popular …
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Malleable Contextual Partitioning and Computational Dreaming
… our lifetime. Our underlying thesis is that contextual categorization leading to simplified algorithmic processing is crucial to the brains performance efficiency. But, since the overheads of such reorganization are unaffordable in real time, we also observe the critical role of sleep and …
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Compressive cooperative obstacle mapping with see-through capabilities in mobile networks
<p>Mobile intelligent networks can play a key role in many different areas from emergency response, surveillance and security, and battlefield operations to smart homes and factories and environmental monitoring. Accurate mapping of the obstacles/objects in the environment is key to the robust …
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Mediating chance encounters through opportunistic social matching
… chance encounters and how systems could utilize contextual data to mediate chance encounters. This dissertation addresses this gap in research literature by exploring the design space of opportunistic social matching systems that aim to introduce relevant people to each other in the opportune …
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Practising identity : emerging adults, digital social technologies and contexts for self
… spaces in which temporal and spatial contexts are destabilised. Now, these individuals are operating within networked publics, where the functions of digital social technologies enable contextual information to flow between individuals and their audiences in the form of visual and …