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AUIC
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Middle-aged users' experience of short message service
Short Message Service (SMS) is a popular form of nonverbal mobile communication. To date, most research has focused upon the use of SMS by teenagers and young adults. Our work exa...
Christine Soriano, Gitesh K. Raikundalia, Jakub Sz...
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 10 days ago
OldGen: mobile phone personalization for older adults
Mobile devices are currently difficult to customize for the usability needs of elderly users. The elderly are instead referred to specially designed “senior phones” or softwar...
Alex Olwal, Dimitris Lachanas, Ermioni Zacharouli
MOBISYS
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Using mobile phones to write in air
The ability to note down small pieces of information, quickly and easily, can be useful. This paper proposes a system called PhonePoint Pen that uses the in-built accelerometer in...
Sandip Agrawal, Ionut Constandache, Shravan Gaonka...
SENSYS
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
The Jigsaw continuous sensing engine for mobile phone applications
Supporting continuous sensing applications on mobile phones is challenging because of the resource demands of long-term sensing, inference and communication algorithms. We present...
Hong Lu, Jun Yang, Zhigang Liu, Nicholas D. Lane, ...
RECSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
FriendSensing: recommending friends using mobile phones
We propose FriendSensing, a framework that automatically suggests friends to mobile social-networking users. Using short-range technologies (e.g., Bluetooth) on her mobile phone, ...
Daniele Quercia, Licia Capra