We present a mobile instrumentation toolkit, AWARE, an open-source effort to develop an
extensible and reusable platform for capturing, inferring, and generating context on mobile …

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 …

We propose ACE (Acquisitional Context Engine), a middleware that supports continuous
context-aware applications while mitigating sensing costs for inferring contexts. ACE …

Emerging mobile applications that sense context are poised to delight and entertain us with
timely news and events, health tracking, and social connections. Unfortunately, sensing …

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

As we are moving towards the Internet of Things (IoT), the number of sensors deployed
around the world is growing at a rapid pace. Market research has shown a significant growth …

We present a uniform mobile terminal software framework that provides systematic methods
for acquiring and processing useful context information from a user's surroundings and …

Computing devices and applications are now used beyond the desktop, in diverse
environments, and this trend toward ubiquitous computing is accelerating. One challenge …

Context-awareness is emerging as a central issue in ubiquitous computing research.
Context-aware computing refers to the idea that computing devices can sense and react to …

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 …