Context-aware smartphone applications refer to those that have the ability to discern
information about their working environment and dynamically adapt their behaviors. Often …

The evolution of smartphones together with increasing computational power has
empowered developers to create innovative context-aware applications for recognizing user …

Context-aware computing is a mobile computing paradigm in which applications can
discover and take advantage of contextual information (such as user location, time of day …

This book originated from a workshop at UbiComp 2010 in Copenhagen, Denmark, in which
both academic and industrial researchers presented their work in the field of mobile context …

Context awareness refers to the system capability of both sensing and reacting to situational
changes [1, 2]. It is one of the most exciting trends in computing today that holds the potential …

Context-awareness, a state where the device is aware of the situation in which it is used, is a
technology which has gained an increasing amount of attention in recent years. A context …

To fully exploit the strengths and potential of the today's mobile devices, context-awareness
needs to be incorporated into the very essence of mobile computing. But today's mobile …

Context-aware mobile applications are systems that can sense clues about the situational
environment and enable appropriate mechanisms of interaction between end users and …

The use of context in mobile devices is receiving increasing attention in mobile and
ubiquitous computing research. In this article we consider how to augment mobile devices …

Detecting user context with high accuracy using smartphone sensors is a difficult task. A key
challenge is dealing with the impact of different smartphone positions on sensor values …