In this paper, we examine the potential of using mobile context to model user engagement.
Taking an experimental approach, we systematically explore the dynamics of user …

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 …

We believe that, for successful adoption of novel mobile technologies and applications, it is
important to be able to test them under real usage patterns, and with real users. To …

Context-aware mobile services have become prevalent in the last few years due to
advances in embedded sensors, emerging context-aware middleware and broadening …

This paper contributes an intentionally naturalistic methodology using smartphone logging
technology to study communications in the wild. Smartphone logging can provide …

By deploying several research applications, we found that capturing usage context (eg, CPU
and memory) is highly valuable for debugging and interpreting results, even if that context …

By allowing any social institution to structure activity in any place, wireless information
services break down the traditional mapping between institutions and places. This …

Understanding how social situations unfold in people's daily lives is relevant to designing
mobile systems that can support users in their personal goals, well-being, and activities. As …

Mobile phones are becoming the chosen platforms for web access, with a forecast that over
the coming decade more users will connect to the internet through mobile than conventional …

Computer applications traditionally expect a static execution environment. However, this
precondition is generally not possible for mobile systems, where the world around an …