Place Lab: Device Positioning Using Radio Beacons in the Wild
- A. LaMarca, Y. Chawathe, Bill N. Schilit
- Computer ScienceInternational Conference on Pervasive Computing
- 8 May 2005
Experimental results are presented showing that 802.11 and GSM beacons are sufficiently pervasive in the greater Seattle area to achieve 20-30 meter median accuracy with nearly 100% coverage measured by availability in people's daily lives.
Practical Metropolitan-Scale Positioning for GSM Phones
- Mike Y. Chen, Timothy Sohn, A. Varshavsky
- Computer ScienceUbiquitous Computing
- 17 September 2006
This paper examines the positioning accuracy of a GSM beacon-based location system in a metropolitan environment and shows that a small 60-hour calibration drive is sufficient for enabling a metropolitan area similar to Seattle.
A diary study of mobile information needs
- Timothy Sohn, Kevin A. Li, W. Griswold, J. Hollan
- Computer ScienceInternational Conference on Human Factors in…
- 6 April 2008
This study conducted a two-week diary study to better understand mobile information needs and how they are addressed and revealed that depending on the time and resources available, as well as the situational context, people use diverse and, at times, ingenious ways to obtain needed information.
iCAP: Interactive Prototyping of Context-Aware Applications
- A. Dey, Timothy Sohn, S. Streng, J. Kodama
- Computer ScienceInternational Conference on Pervasive Computing
- 7 May 2006
iCAP is presented, a system that allows end-users to visually design a wide variety of context-aware applications, including those based on if-then rules, temporal and spatial relationships and environment personalization.
Mobility Detection Using Everyday GSM Traces
- Timothy Sohn, A. Varshavsky, E. D. Lara
- Computer ScienceUbiquitous Computing
- 17 September 2006
This paper explores how coarse-grained GSM data from mobile phones can be used to recognize high-level properties of user mobility, and daily step count, and demonstrates that even without knowledge of observed cell tower locations, mobility modes that are useful for several application domains are recognized.
Usability and Feasibility of PmEB: A Mobile Phone Application for Monitoring Real Time Caloric Balance
- Christopher C. Tsai, Gunny Lee, K. Patrick
- MedicinePervasive Health Conference and Workshops
- 1 November 2006
Patient-Centered Assessment and Counseling Mobile Energy Balance is both usable and feasible for weight management self-monitoring, and the iterative pilot study methodology was effective in improving its usability.
A large scale study of text-messaging use
- A. Battestini, V. Setlur, Timothy Sohn
- Computer ScienceMobile HCI
- 7 September 2010
Findings from a large scale text messaging study of 70 university students in the United States suggest that students communicate with a large number of contacts for extended periods of time, engage in simultaneous conversations with as many as 9 contacts, and often use text messaging as a method to switch between a variety of communication mediums.
Place-Its: A Study of Location-Based Reminders on Mobile Phones
- Timothy Sohn, Kevin A. Li, Gunny Lee, I. Smith, James Scott, W. Griswold
- Computer ScienceUbiquitous Computing
- 11 September 2005
Place-Its, a location-based reminder application that runs on mobile phones, is designed to study people using location-aware reminders throughout their daily lives and reveals that location- based reminders are useful, in large part because people use location in nuanced ways.
Social Disclosure of Place: From Location Technology to Communication Practices
- I. Smith, Sunny Consolvo, G. Abowd
- Computer ScienceInternational Conference on Pervasive Computing
- 8 May 2005
A social location disclosure service, Reno, designed for use on a common mobile phone platform is presented and the guiding principles that dictate parameters for creating a usable, useful and ubiquitous service are described.
iCAP: an informal tool for interactive prototyping of context-aware applications
- Timothy Sohn, A. Dey
- Computer ScienceCHI Extended Abstracts
- 5 April 2003
iCAP is a system that assists users in prototyping context-aware applications. iCAP supports sketching for creating input and output devices, and using these devices to design interaction rules,…
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