BACKGROUND In the last several decades, the use of electronic devices has become more
common. In particular, advances in elec tronic technology have reduced the cost of …

Human activity recognition (HAR) essentially uses (past) sensor data or complex context
information for inferring the activities a user performs in his daily tasks. HAR has been …

We introduce Deep Thermal Imaging, a new approach for close-range automatic recognition
of materials to enhance the understanding of people and ubiquitous technologies of their …

With either static or portable equipment, such as wireless laptops, Personal Digital
Assistants (PDAs), and smart phones, mobile interactions can occur in many places, at …

In this paper, we review three experiments with a mobile application that integrates
graphical input with a touch-screen and a speech interface and develop a model for input …

A comparison between mobile and ubiquitous learning from the perspective of human–computer
interaction Page 1 218 Int. J. Mobile Learning and Organisation, Vol. 6, Nos. 3/4, 2012 …

Context-awareness endows mobile devices and services with the capability of interacting
with users in an efficient, intelligent, natural and smart fashion. Consequently, context …

The advent of advanced mobile devices in combination with new interaction modalities and
methods for the tracking of contextual information, opens new possibilities in the field of …

The inherent social characteristics of humans make them prone to adopting distributed and
collaborative applications easily. Although fundamental methods and technologies have …

Interruptions have a profound impact on our attentional orientation in everyday life. Recent
advances in mobile information technology increase the number of potentially disruptive …