Collaborative Context Recognition for Mobile Devices
Handbook of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, Springer, New York, (2010)DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-93808-0_10
Abstract
The next wave of mobile applications is at hand. Mobile phones, PDAs, cameras, music players, and gaming gadgets are creating a connected mobile ecosystem where it is possible to implement systems with significant embedded intelligence. Such advances will make it possible to move many functions of the current PC-centric applications to the mobile domain. Since the inherent difficulties that come with mobility---limited UIs, short attention spans, power dependency, intermittent connectivity, to name but a few---are still not going away, new solutions are needed to make mobile computing satisfactory. We are facing the paradox of cramming ever more functions into our ever more portable devices, while seeking to achieve radically better usablility and semi-usable automated intelligence.