Advances in mobile technology have led to the emergence of the “smartphone”, a new class
of device with more advanced connectivity features that have quickly made it a constant …

Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications enable networked devices and services to
exchange information and perform actions seamlessly without the need for human …

An accurate aging forecasting and state of health estimation is essential for a safe and
economically valuable usage of lithium-ion batteries. However, the non-linear aging of …

We present a mobile instrumentation toolkit, AWARE, an open-source effort to develop an
extensible and reusable platform for capturing, inferring, and generating context on mobile …

The rapid development of wearable sensing and interfacing electronics is facing challenges
in sustainability and energy independence. The reliable and sustainable operation of such …

Smartphone usage is a hot topic in pervasive computing due to their popularity and personal
aspect. We present our initial results from analyzing how individual differences, such as …

Search Based Software Testing (SBST) formulates testing as an optimisation problem, which
can be attacked using computational search techniques from the field of Search Based …

Ageism is the most invisible form of discrimination. While there is some awareness of
gender, racial, and socioeconomic discrimination on digital platforms, ageism has received …

The availability of “always-on” communications has tremendous implications for how people
interact socially. In particular, sociologists are interested in the question if such pervasive …

We aim to detect and diagnose energy anomalies, abnormally heavy battery use. This paper
describes a collaborative black-box method, and an implementation called Carat, for …