Lecture 14: Location and Context Awareness

Preparation:

Lecture Notes:

• Jared's Presentation on cricket location servicces [access limited to UT hosts]
• Krupakar's Presentation on context-aware applications [access limited to UT hosts]

Homework

Papers (Required)

1. A. Harter, A. Hopper, P. Steggles, A. Ward, and P. Webster, " The Anatomy of a Context-Aware Application," ACM MobiCom 1999.
2. K. Cheverst, N. Davies, K. Mitchell, and A. Friday, " Experiences of Developing and Deploying a Context-Aware Tourist Guide: The GUIDE Project," ACM MobiCom 2000.
3. N. Priyantha, A. Chakraborty, and H. Balakrishnan, " The Cricket location-support system," ACM MobiCom 2000.
4. N. Priyantha, A. Miu, H. Balakrishnan, and S. Teller, " The cricket compass for context-aware mobile applications," ACM MobiCom 2001.

Other References (Recommended)

1. F. Hohl, U. Kubach, A. Leonhardi, K. Rothermel, and M. Schwehm, " Next century challenges: Nexus -- an open global infrastructure for spatial-aware applications," ACM MobiCom 1999.
2. T. Hodes and R. Katz, " Composable Ad hoc Location-based Services for Heterogeneous Mobile Clients," ACM Wireless Networks Journal, Vol. 5, No. 5, October 1999.
3. G. Voelker and B. Bershad, " Mobisaic: an information system for a mobile wireless computing environment," Proceedings of Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, 1994, pp. 185-190.

   AT&T Cambridge Labs Projects:

4. A. Harter and A. Hopper, " A Distributed Location System for the Active Office," IEEE Network, Vol. 8, No. 1, January 1994.
5. Active Badge
6. Ultrasonic Location System
7. Sentient Computing