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SECON
2010
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Batch Scheduling of Recurrent Applications for Energy Savings on Mobile Phones
Abstract--Recurrent applications that mostly run in the background are a significant source of power consumption on batterylimited mobile phones. We highlight the pitfalls of sched...
Matt Calder, Mahesh K. Marina
SECON
2010
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
iPoint: A Platform-Independent Passive Information Kiosk for Cell Phones
We introduce iPoint, a passive device that can interact and deliver information to virtually any mobile phone equipped with a WiFi network interface and a camera. The iPoint does n...
Hooman Javaheri, Guevara Noubir
ICDM
2010
IEEE
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13 years 7 months ago
Recommending Social Events from Mobile Phone Location Data
A city offers thousands of social events a day, and it is difficult for dwellers to make choices. The combination of mobile phones and recommender systems can change the way one de...
Daniele Quercia, Neal Lathia, Francesco Calabrese,...
UM
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
User Modeling for Telecommunication Applications: Experiences and Practical Implications
Abstract. Telecommunication applications based on user modeling focus on extracting customer behavior and preferences from the information implicitly included in Call Detail Record...
Heath Hohwald, Enrique Frías-Martíne...
PUC
2010
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Mobile phone-based pervasive fall detection
Falls are a major health risk that diminishes the quality of life among the elderly people. The importance of fall detection increases as the elderly population surges, especially ...
Jiangpeng Dai, Xiaole Bai, Zhimin Yang, Zhaohui Sh...
MMS
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Ubimedia based on readable and writable memory tags
Ubimedia is a concept where media files are embedded in everyday objects and the environment. We propose an approach where the user can read and write these files with his/her pe...
Eija Kaasinen, Marketta Niemelä, Timo Tuomist...
JUCS
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
PICTAC: A Model for Perceiving Touch Interaction through Tagging Context
: A natural interface is one of three key technologies of Ambient Intelligence (AmI); one of its main objectives is to minimize the user’s interactive effort, which is the diffic...
Gabriel Chavira, José Bravo, Salvador Wilfr...
HUC
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Vehicular speed estimation using received signal strength from mobile phones
This paper introduces an algorithm that estimates the speed of a mobile phone by matching time-series signal strength data to a known signal strength trace from the same road. Kno...
Gayathri Chandrasekaran, Tam Vu, Alexander Varshav...
PUC
2007
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13 years 8 months ago
When home base is not a place: parents' use of mobile telephones
Abstract More attention is being paid to the development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) that are sensitive to the needs of people in their homes. By studying ...
Leysia Palen, Amanda L. Hughes
PSYCHNOLOGY
2007
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Texters not Talkers: Phone Call Aversion among Mobile Phone Users
This paper argues that there are two types of mobile phone user. The study focused on the interactional experience of mobile phone calls and text messages. The research involved 3...
Ruth Rettie