Wearable sensing technologies are having a worldwide impact on the creation of novel
business opportunities and application services that are benefiting the common citizen. By …

Information technology can improve the quality, efficiency, and cost of healthcare. In this
survey, we examine the privacy requirements of mobile computing technologies that have …

High-data-rate sensors, such as video cameras, are becoming ubiquitous in the Internet of
Things. This article describes GigaSight, an Internet-scale repository of crowd-sourced video …

In recent years, location-based services have become very popular, mainly driven by the
availability of modern mobile devices with integrated position sensors. Prominent examples …

The capabilities of mobile devices have been improving very quickly in terms of computing
power, storage, feature support, and developed applications. However, these mobile …

User participation is one of the most important elements in participatory sensing application
for providing adequate level of service quality. However, incentive mechanism and its …

Increasingly, human beings are sensors engaging directly with the mobile Internet.
Individuals can now share real-time experiences at an unprecedented scale. Social …

With the abundance and ubiquity of mobile devices, a new class of applications, called
spatial crowdsourcing, is emerging, which enables spatial tasks (ie, tasks related to a …

Location privacy is an important concern in participatory sensing applications, where users
can both contribute valuable information (data reporting) as well as retrieve (location …

Large-scale collection of contextual information is often essential in order to gather statistics,
train machine learning models, and extract knowledge from data. The ability to do so in a …