Context-aware applications are increasingly complex and autonomous, and research has
indicated that explanations can help users better understand and ultimately trust their …

The mobile phone is not just another device; it is with you day and night, and you rely on its
capabilities in work and in private. In short, the mobile phone is your companion. As your …

Artificial intelligence (AI) seeks to emulate human reasoning, but is still far from achieving
such results for actionable sensing in complex situations. Instead of emulating human …

Human subject studies with mobile users are widely used to understand, and model, human
aspects such as behaviours and preferences, in the lab and in the wild. These studies …

Evaluating the user experience of mobile and ubiquitous applications is a challenging task.
They are becoming increasingly complex and tightly interwoven into the fabric of everyday …

Interruptions have a profound impact on our attentional orientation in everyday life. Recent
advances in mobile information technology increase the number of potentially disruptive …

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 …

Mobile awareness systems provide user-controlled and automatic, sensor-derived cues of
other users' situations and in that way attempt to facilitate group practices and provide …

Mobile phones are a pervasive platform for opportunistic sensing of behaviors and opinions.
Three studies use location and communication sensors to model individual behaviors and …

Movement of an entity is greatly affected by its internal and external contexts. Such
consequential influence has created new paradigms for context‐aware movement data …