Introduction Information and communication technology (ICT) is potentially mature enough
to empower outdoor and social activities in dementia. However, actual ICT-based devices …

This retrospective on 20 years of ubiquitous computing research identifies opportunities for
leveraging utility computing and the Internet of Things to grow the ubicomp infrastructure …

In recent years, we have witnessed a rapid surge in assisted living technologies due to a
rapidly aging society. The aging population, the increasing cost of formal health care, the …

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a new paradigm in information technology aimed at
empowering people's capabilities by means of digital environments that are sensitive …

An emerging class of interactive wearable cognitive assistance applications is poised to
become one of the key demonstrators of edge computing infrastructure. In this paper, we …

Although the privacy threats and countermeasures associated with location data are well
known, there has not been a thorough experiment to assess the effectiveness of either. We …

Top end mobile phones include a number of specialized (eg, accelerometer, compass, GPS)
and general purpose sensors (eg, microphone, camera) that enable new people-centric …

This paper introduces a hierarchical Markov model that can learn and infer a user's daily
movements through an urban community. The model uses multiple levels of abstraction in …

We describe a method called Predestination that uses a history of a driver's destinations,
along with data about driving behaviors, to predict where a driver is going as a trip …

Understanding user mobility is critical for simulations of mobile devices in a wireless
network, but current mobility models often do not reflect real user movements. In this paper …