To date, many important threads of information privacy research have developed, but these
threads have not been woven together into a cohesive fabric. This paper provides an …

The ever-growing computation and storage capability of mobile phones have given rise to
mobile-centric context recognition systems, which are able to sense and analyze the context …

With the advent of instant mobile messaging applications, traditional SMS is in danger of
loosing it's reign as the king of mobile messaging. Applications like WhatsApp allow mobile …

Mobile devices are playing an increasingly intimate role in everyday life. However, users
can be surprised when informed of the data collection and distribution activities of apps they …

Our goal in the present study was to understand how emoticons are used in text messaging
and, in particular, how genders differed in the frequency and variety of emoticons used via …

This paper presents MyExperience, a system for capturing both objective and subjective in
situ data on mobile computing activities. MyExperience combines the following two …

We present a large scale study of search patterns on Google's mobile search interface. Our
goal is to understand the current state of wireless search by analyzing over 1 Million hits to …

The purpose of this article is twofold. First, we summarize research on the topic of privacy in
Human–Computer Interaction (HCI), outlining current approaches, results, and trends …

Social networks have become a central feature of everyday life. Most young people are
members of at least one online social network, and they naturally provide a great deal of …

The attempts of using the wireless network as a new advertising media are rapidly
increasing. This paper proposes a framework for understanding the characteristics of …