Context-awareness in ubiquitous computing and the mobile devices

Nuhcan Akçit, Emrah Tomur, Mahmut Onur Karslioʇlu

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Abstract

Mobile device use has vastly increased in the last few years. Many people use many mobile devices in their daily lives. Context-aware computing is the main feature of pervasive and ubiquitous computing. Context awareness is also an important topic that becomes more available with ubiquitous computing. As the sensors increase, the data collected via mobile device sensors and sensor networks do not have much value because of the difficulty in analysis and understanding the data. Context-aware computing helps us store contextual information and use or search it by mobile devices when we want to see or analyze it. Contextual data can be made more meaningful by context-aware processing. There are different types of data and context information that must be considered. By combining spatial and contextual data, we obtain more meaningful data based on the entities. Contextual data is any information that can be used to characterize the situation of the entity. The entity is a person, place, or object considered relevant to the interaction between the user and an application, including the users and the applications. Using contextual data and good integration to mobile devices adds great value to this data, and combining these with our other data sets will allow us to obtain more useful information and analysis.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThird International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment, RSCy 2015
EditorsSilas Michaelides, Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis, Kyriacos Themistocleous, Giorgos Papadavid
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781628417005
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Event3rd International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment, RSCy 2015 - Paphos, Cyprus
Duration: 16 Mar 201519 Mar 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume9535
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

Conference3rd International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment, RSCy 2015
Country/TerritoryCyprus
CityPaphos
Period16/03/1519/03/15

Keywords

  • context
  • Context-awareness
  • mobile
  • spatial data
  • ubiquitous computing

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