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Designing a Context-Sensitive Context Detection Service for Mobile Devices

This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of Amoeba, a context-sensitive context detection service for mobile devices. Amoeba exports an API that allows a client to express interest in one or more context types (activity, indoor/outdoor, and entry/exit to/from named regions), subscribe to specific modes within each context (e.g., “walking” or “running”, but no other activi...

Designing an Interactive Museum Guide: A Case Study for Mobile Software Development

Portable devices disseminate the information sharing without encountering the location barriers. By the great enhancements of mobile phones, it has been changed the direction of computing to the people centric computing (Lane et al. (2006), Shi et al. (2010)). Mobile phones have advantages to support mobile learning (m-learning) through the use of wireless mobile technology to allow learners to...

Cyberguide: A mobile context-aware tour guide

Future computing environments will free the user from the constraints of the desktop. Applications for a mobile environment should take advantage of contextual information, such as position, to offer greater services to the user. In this paper, we present the Cyberguide project, in which we are building prototypes of a mobile context-aware tour guide. Knowledge of the user’s current location, a...