AWARE: Mobile Context Instrumentation Framework

Frontiers in ICT

Kostakos, Vassilis¹  Ferreira, Denzil¹  Dey, Anind K.² 

[1] Community Imaging Group (COMAG), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Oulu, Finland;Ubicomp Laboratory, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

关键词: Context-Aware Systems;    Ubiquitous data capture framework;    mobile toolkit;    Mobile sensing;    user studies;    mobile questionnaires;    ESM;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fict.2015.00006

学科分类：计算机网络和通讯

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

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 devices. Mobile phones are sensor-rich but resource-constrained, and therefore several considerations need to be addressed when creating a research tool that ensures problem-free context collection. We demonstrate how AWARE can mitigate researchers’ effort when building mobile data-logging tools and context-aware applications, with minimal battery impact. By encapsulating implementation details of sensor data retrieval and exposing the sensed context as higher-level abstractions, AWARE shifts the focus from software development to data analysis, both quantitative and qualitative. We have evaluated AWARE in several case studies and discuss its use, power consumption, and scalability.

【 授权许可】

CC BY