Context-Awareness for Mobile Sensing: A Survey and Future Directions

• Published in: IEEE Communications surveys and tutorials Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 68 - 93
• Main Authors: Yurur, Ozgur, Liu, Chi Harold, Zhengguo Sheng, Leung, Victor C. M., Moreno, Wilfrido, Leung, Kin K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2016
• Subjects: Context; Context modeling; Context-Awareness; Middleware; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Mobile Sensing; Object oriented modeling; Sensors; mobile sensing; Context-awareness; middleware

The evolution of smartphones together with increasing computational power has empowered developers to create innovative context-aware applications for recognizing user-related social and cognitive activities in any situation and at any location. The existence and awareness of the context provide the...