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2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Improving energy efficiency of location sensing on smartphones
Location-based applications have become increasingly popular on smartphones over the past years. The active use of these applications can however cause device battery drain owing ...
Zhenyun Zhuang, Kyu-Han Kim, Jatinder Pal Singh
MDM
2004
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
Semantic Location Modeling for Location Navigation in Mobile Environment
Location-based applications require a well-formed representation of spatial knowledge. Current location models can be classified into symbolic or geometric models. The former att...
Haibo Hu, Dik Lun Lee
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Life on the edge: supporting collaboration in location-based experiences
We study a collaborative location-based game in which groups of `lions' hunt together on a virtual savannah that is overlaid on an open playing field. The game implements a s...
Steve Benford, Duncan Rowland, Martin Flintham, Ad...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Putting people in their place: an anonymous and privacy-sensitive approach to collecting sensed data in location-based applicati
The emergence of location-based computing promises new and compelling applications, but raises very real privacy risks. Existing approaches to privacy generally treat people as th...
Karen P. Tang, Pedram Keyani, James Fogarty, Jason...
ICDE
2002
IEEE
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15 years 24 days ago
NAPA: Nearest Available Parking Lot Application
With the advances in wireless communications and technologies of mobile devices, location-based applications or services will become an essential part of future applications. We h...
Hae Don Chon, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi