Research meeting

Hello,

Department's March research meeting is on Tue 12.3 at 15:15 in room
TC128.

Presenter: Jussi Parviainen (from the old computer science department).

Topic: Activity and Environment Recognition for Mobile Phones

Design of novel applications for modern smartphones has boomed in the
past years. This is partly due to easy access to new information
sources, such as Global Positioning System (GPS) and motion sensors.

For the application designers the smartphone environment is very
different from the earlier computer world. Applications are running
continuously, and the environment and activity of the user changes many
times a day. Context information is often required to provide only the
most relevant information or services to the user. In the present
paradigm the application requires the user to provide this information,
such as 'I am in a meeting'. Undoubtedly it would be more convenient if
this context information could be inferred automatically. For this
reason, context recognition using built-in sensors of modern mobile
phones is an active research topic. The research problem is far from
trivial, as the sensors provide only indirect information; there is no
sensor for directly detecting 'meetings' or 'jogging'.