Location Based Applications Research Papers (original) (raw)

We looked through all the latest technology that could be used in conjunction with your smartphone, something that could really get shoppers engaged and interested in the experience and we found that in Gimbal, a software platform that can help shape our users shopping patterns through using the technology in their phone best suited our needs. Using this technology, the smartphone will be used as a tool to gain a privacy enhanced peek into user’s interests, habits and personality, therefore our application will slowly get to know the user and recommend items thorough push messages that users may have a need for.

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- Marketing, Context-Aware Computing, Cloud Computing, Location Based Applications

Today’s mobile phones are smarter than ever: they now take and process pictures and videos, issue messages and email, access the Web, allow games on demand, and play music. More people around the world take their phones everywhere they go, using them in a variety of environments and situations to perform a whole range of different tasks. In India, for example, more people access the Internet from their phones than from a PC, a scenario that will certainly play out across the globe in the years to come.1
Most mobile phones include a variety of sensing components. By expanding this capability, we can derive some interesting sensing modalities—for example, scrutinizing local environments to detect and reduce pollution or using medical applications to tackle other problems on a societal scale.
In this article, we discuss experiences and lessons learned from deploying four mobile sensing applications on off-the-shelf mobile phones within a recreational framework called MobSens that contains elements of health, social, and environmental sensing at both individual and community levels. We describe the main components of our applications, which facilitate logging and external communications. We also outline the challenges faced when building and testing these applications and describe our strategies for overcoming them.

In this article, we discuss experiences and lessons learned from deploying four mobile sensing applications on off-the-shelf mobile phones within a recreational framework called MobSens that contains elements of health, social, and environmental sensing at both individual and community levels. We describe the main components of our applications, which facilitate logging and external communications. We also outline the challenges faced when building and testing these applications and describe our strategies for overcoming ...