Context awareness is a research area that aims to utilise contexts to ease a user's tasks and
hence fulfil his needs. Newer and more innovative approaches in different aspects, such as …

Context-aware systems sense the user's situation and provide an interaction that adapts and
behave accordingly. To reach a level of user's satisfaction the systems need to be aware of …

The ever increasing technological advances in embedded systems engineering, together
with the proliferation of small-size sensor designs and deployment, have enabled smart …

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 …

Mobile phones enable us to carry out a wider range of tasks every day, and as a result they
have become more ubiquitous than ever. However, they are still more limited in terms of …

In recent times, for different application of Ambient Intelligent services (eg Smart home),
Remote monitoring and Assisted healthcare, the use of smartphones for the recognition of …

The contribution of this chapter is to propose a survey of several methods to extract context
information, by employing a smartphone, based on Digital Signal Processing and Pattern …

Context-aware computing is proposed as an enabling technology for adaptating different
functions in computer-aided devices. The development of context-awareness for mobile …

Context recognition is an indispensable functionality of context-aware applications that
deals with automatic determination and inference of contextual information from a set of …

Sedentary behaviour is increasing due to societal changes and is related to prolonged
periods of sitting. There is sufficient evidence proving that sedentary behaviour has a …