Context acquisition is an important technology for ubiquitous computing. An ideal approach
would be easy to deploy and non-intrusive to people's life. Mobile phones equipped with …

With the continuing penetration of sensor devices and the development of wireless
communication techniques, increasing number of applications involving context awareness …

Context-aware computing aims at tailoring services to the user's circumstances and
surroundings. Our study examines how data collected from mobile devices can be utilized to …

Mobile phones became multi-purpose devices supporting their users with large variety of
applications for various tasks. Not only the number of available applications is increasing …

In order to make context-aware systems more effective and provide timely, personalized and
relevant information to a user, the context or situation of the user must be clearly defined …

The ability to automatically recognize a person's behavioral context can contribute to health
monitoring, aging care, and many other domains. Validating context recognition in the wild is …

This paper describes a context extraction framework for a mobile device that equips a variety
of sensors. The framework captures context about a user and her surrounding environment; …

Proactively providing services to mobile individuals is essential for emerging ubiquitous
applications. The major challenge in providing users with proactive services lies in …

It is a very important to develop context-aware systems that can handle, at the same time,
multiple heterogeneous applications that require different contexts with different levels of …

Context information brings new opportunities for efficient and effective applications and
services on mobile devices. A wide range of research has exploited context dependency, ie …