Day: July 22, 2011

Energy-efficient location-awareness on mobile devices

Speaker: Peterri Nurmi,  Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT Abstract: Contemporary mobile phones readily support different positioning techniques. In addition to integrated GPS receivers, GSM and WiFi can be used for position estimation, and other sensors such as accelerometers and digital compasses can be used to support positioning, e.g., through dead reckoning or the detection of Energy-efficient location-awareness on mobile devices

Sensing, understanding and modelling people using mobile phones

Speaker: Mirco Musolesi, Computer Science, University of St Andrews Abstract: Mobile phones are increasingly equipped with sensors, such as accelerometers, GPS receivers, proximity sensors and cameras, that can be used to sense and interpret people behaviour in real-time. Novel user-centered sensing applications can be built by exploiting the availability of such technologies in these devices Sensing, understanding and modelling people using mobile phones