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MobiQuitous 2013: Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services pp 640–652Cite as

Enhancing Context-Aware Applications Accuracy with Position Discovery

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Detecting user context with high accuracy using smartphone sensors is a difficult task. A key challenge is dealing with the impact of different smartphone positions on sensor values. Users carry their smartphones in different positions such as holding in their hand or keeping inside their pants or jacket pocket, and each of these smartphone positions affects various sensor values in different ways. This paper addresses the issue of poor accuracy in detecting user context due to varying smartphone positions. It describes the design and prototype development of a smartphone position discovery service that accurately detects a smartphone position, and then demonstrates that the accuracy of an existing context aware application is significantly enhanced when run in conjunction with this proposed smartphone position discovery service.

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309-0430, USA

    Khaled Alanezi & Shivakant Mishra

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  1. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Ivan Stojmenovic

  2. School of Computer Science and Engineering,The University of Aizu Tsuruga, Fukushima, Japan

    Zixue Cheng

  3. School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Aizu Tsuruga, Fukushima, Japan

    Song Guo

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Alanezi, K., Mishra, S. (2014). Enhancing Context-Aware Applications Accuracy with Position Discovery. In: Stojmenovic, I., Cheng, Z., Guo, S. (eds) Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services. MobiQuitous 2013. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 131. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11569-6_50

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