AUTOMATIC CONTEXT DETECTION OF A MOBILE USER

Uta Christoph, Karl-Heinz Krempels, Janno von Stülpnagel, Christoph Terwelp

2010

Abstract

Mobile devices have obtained a significant role in our life providing a large variety of useful functionalities and features. It is desirable to have an automated adaptation of the behavior of a mobile device depending on a change of user context to fulfill expectations towards practical usefulness. To enable mobile devices to adapt their behavior automatically there is a need to determine the mobile user’s context. In this paper we introduce an integrated approach for the automatic detection of a user’s context. Therefore, we summarize and discuss existing approaches and technologies and describe a service architecture that takes into account information from the interaction of the mobile device with communication networks and positioning systems, from integrated sensors, and planned behavior of the user from e.g his calendar or activity list. Additionally it considers the social network of the user to derive further information about his context and finally it takes into account his customs through a behavior model.

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in Harvard Style

Christoph U., Krempels K., von Stülpnagel J. and Terwelp C. (2010). AUTOMATIC CONTEXT DETECTION OF A MOBILE USER . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-24-9, pages 189-194. DOI: 10.5220/0003030701890194


in Bibtex Style

@conference{winsys10,
author={Uta Christoph and Karl-Heinz Krempels and Janno von Stülpnagel and Christoph Terwelp},
title={AUTOMATIC CONTEXT DETECTION OF A MOBILE USER},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={189-194},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003030701890194},
isbn={978-989-8425-24-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2010)
TI - AUTOMATIC CONTEXT DETECTION OF A MOBILE USER
SN - 978-989-8425-24-9
AU - Christoph U.
AU - Krempels K.
AU - von Stülpnagel J.
AU - Terwelp C.
PY - 2010
SP - 189
EP - 194
DO - 10.5220/0003030701890194