This paper presents a large-scale analysis of contextualized smartphone usage in real life.
We introduce two contextual variables that condition the use of smartphone applications …

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

As mobile devices permeate daily life, several studies investigate how users react when
technology falls short of their expectations. In this paper, we deploy a data/frame model to …

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 …

The ease of smartphone communications has created an expectation of constant
connectivity. While the adoption of virtual assistants has improved, their capabilities for …

SenSay is a context-aware mobile phone that adapts to dynamically changing
environmental and physiological states. In addition to manipulating ringer volume, vibration …

Mobile sensing is a ubiquitous and useful tool to make inferences about individuals' mental
health based on physiology and behavior patterns. Along with sensing features directly …

Context-awareness endows mobile devices and services with the capability of interacting
with users in an efficient, intelligent, natural and smart fashion. Consequently, context …

Traditionally smart environments have been understood to represent those (often physical)
spaces where computation is embedded into the users' surrounding infrastructure, buildings …

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 …