A survey of wearable devices and challenges

S Seneviratne, Y Hu, T Nguyen, G Lan… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As smartphone penetration saturates, we are witnessing a new trend in personal mobile
devices-wearable mobile devices or simply wearables as it is often called. Wearables come …

Wi-Fi fingerprint-based indoor positioning: Recent advances and comparisons

S He, SHG Chan - IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The growing commercial interest in indoor location-based services (ILBS) has spurred
recent development of many indoor positioning techniques. Due to the absence of Global …

Energy efficiency in wireless sensor networks: A top-down survey

T Rault, A Bouabdallah, Y Challal - Computer networks, 2014 - Elsevier
The design of sustainable wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a very challenging issue. On
the one hand, energy-constrained sensors are expected to run autonomously for long …

Trajectories of depression: unobtrusive monitoring of depressive states by means of smartphone mobility traces analysis

L Canzian, M Musolesi - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM international joint …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
One of the most interesting applications of mobile sensing is monitoring of individual
behavior, especially in the area of mental health care. Most existing systems require an …

Neural correlates of individual differences in affective benefit of real-life urban green space exposure

H Tost, M Reichert, U Braun, I Reinhard, R Peters… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Psychiatric morbidity is high in cities, so identifying potential modifiable urban protective
factors is important. We show that exposure to urban green space improves well-being in …

InterruptMe: designing intelligent prompting mechanisms for pervasive applications

V Pejovic, M Musolesi - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
The mobile phone represents a unique platform for interactive applications that can harness
the opportunity of an immediate contact with a user in order to increase the impact of the …

The jigsaw continuous sensing engine for mobile phone applications

H Lu, J Yang, Z Liu, ND Lane, T Choudhury… - Proceedings of the 8th …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Supporting continuous sensing applications on mobile phones is challenging because of
the resource demands of long-term sensing, inference and communication algorithms. We …

Tracking the evolution of smartphone sensing for monitoring human movement

MB Del Rosario, SJ Redmond, NH Lovell - Sensors, 2015 - mdpi.com
Advances in mobile technology have led to the emergence of the “smartphone”, a new class
of device with more advanced connectivity features that have quickly made it a constant …

Energy-efficient rate-adaptive GPS-based positioning for smartphones

J Paek, J Kim, R Govindan - … of the 8th international conference on …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Many emerging smartphone applications require position information to provide location-
based or context-aware services. In these applications, GPS is often preferred over its …

Context-awareness for mobile sensing: A survey and future directions

Ö Yürür, CH Liu, Z Sheng, VCM Leung… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The evolution of smartphones together with increasing computational power has
empowered developers to create innovative context-aware applications for recognizing user …