The rich context provided by smartphones has enabled many new context-aware
applications. However, these applications still need to provide their own mechanisms to …

People-centric sensing using people's smartphones offers new research opportunities for
large case studies. It presents many challenges, eg., efficient capture of person's mobility …

Our world is increasingly interconnected via a wide variety of computers, IoT, wearable and
mobile devices. The information provided collectively through these devices offers insightful …

The people-aware computing group at Cornell has been developing techniques to cheaply,
accurately, and continuously collect data on daily human behavior, social interactions, and …

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 …

Various flavours of a new research field on (socio−) physical or personal analytics have
emerged, with the goal of deriving semanticallyrich insights from people's low-level physical …

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

The abundance of smartphones, with their ever growing capabilities, potentiates
applications in a multitude of domains. A typical smartphone now is equipped with an array …

As the availability and use of wearables increases, they are becoming a promising platform
for context sensing and context analysis. Smartwatches are a particularly interesting platform …

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 …