The authors explore various applications that can be enabled by transforming mobile devices into active sonar systems—specifically showing how to monitor minute... Read More »
ForcePhone exploits a well-known physical property, called structure-borne sound propagation, to enable commodity phones to recognize the force applied to their... Read More »
Moving the responsibility for certain computation, communication, and storage operations away from a mobile device's main processor can help save power while si... Read More »
Lightweight autonomous drones that can actively interact with the world are emerging as the next step-change in consumer electronic technology, just like smartp... Read More »
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Applying mobile crowdsensing (MCS) to a system introduces new challenges: motivating active participation, inferring location information of unlabeled fingerpri... Read More »
In this article, the authors explore the use of pervasive displays in special-education classrooms to help children with autism better reflect on their behavior... Read More »
Since falls are a major health risk for the elderly, a fall detection method is proposed using floor pressure imaging and fall event decision based on classifie... Read More »
Realizing the value of understanding core computer science concepts, the UK is providing its schools with the BBC micro:bit, putting pervasive computing at the ... Read More »
To understand and optimize battery use in complex smartphone applications, a novel crowdsourced solution is proposed for characterizing energy consumption of sy... Read More »