[This topic can be selected as an essay]
This essay looks into what sensors might be integrated in near future into smartphones and how such sensors can be used to identify a mobile user’s current situation and the context/characteristics of this situation. Furthermore, the essay will look into how such information can then be used to provide personalized support for users in selected domains such as education, health, etc. Examples for future sensors include altimeters, heart-rate monitors, sensors to detect perspiration, temperature and humidity sensors.
The first part of this essay will be a literature review about sensors that might be or are planned to be integrated into mobile phones in near future as well as a literature review on user/context modelling and personalization in mobile computing. The second part of this essay will be to select a few future sensors and do a literature review on each selected sensor about how this sensor has been used (as separate device rather than within a smartphone) to detect a user’s context/situation and what personalization has been resulted from such context/situation. For example, although a heart-rate monitor has not been integrated into today’s mobile phones, there is a lot of literature on how heart-rate monitors are used as separate devices, how context information about the user is gathered and how this context information is then used to support a user and/or provide him/her with personalized applications/guidance. The third part of this essay will be a discussion about the possibilities of selected future sensors once they are integrated in mobile phones to identify context information and using this context information for providing users with personalized and adaptive support. Furthermore, this discussion should include possible limitations of the sensors when integrated into a mobile phone (e.g., less accuracy).
This essay might require communication/arrangements with another master student who will work on a similar topic. Furthermore, since this is a cutting-edge topic, there might be possibilities to publish a scientific paper at an international conference or workshop.
Requirements:
*) Interest in the topic
*) Interest in mobile technologies
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