Evaluation of a location-linked notes system

International Journal of Advanced Research in Science, Communication and Technology

Smartphones have advanced rapidly over a very short time and one of the products of this advancements is the ability to accurately track location using GPS hardware present on phones. We can take advantage of this by using it to allow the user to make location-based reminders. In this paper we look at a solution developed by our team. We believe that our solution will help users to keep track of their tasks effectively. The application will be targeted towards people with an active lifestyle who prefer to do things in person or at location. This report goes in detail about our team’s motivation and reason to develop this application. It also goes into the working of the designed application

2003

A location-aware multiuser messaging (LAMMS) application was user-tested to explore a possible future form of mobile text-based communication that may develop alongside short message service (SMS). Two sets of user trials were performed with the prototype: Study 1 involved a peer group communicating in an unconfined space; Study 2 was associated with a group of strangers using the device in a shopping centre. Chat was observed to be a prominent aspect of communication, in both studies. Chat among strangers, in particular, may benefit from location-awareness, in that location may provide a talking point and structure the conversation in the absence of knowing the communication partner. The fact that location-based and informational messages were more common among users in Study 2 suggests also that location-based commercial information may be acceptable in a setting that is associated with non-acquainted users. The results point toward the importance of creating a high message density environment in future studies associated with the use of LAMMS.

2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 2010

The area of mobile location-based information systems enumerates many systems that enable their users to digitally annotate physical locations, providing in this way information to others about these locations, communicating with other people in the proximity and publicly expressing their opinions and thoughts. However, no attempts have been made to facilitate the user in describing important situations through annotations and further on, to analyze the textual data provided in the annotations, in order to extract useful information and exploit this information for the benefit of others. We argue that these annotations could be proved critical, as long as the system exploits their content and the context. In this work we propose a mobile location-based annotation system with enhanced context-aware functionality, which enables users to textually annotate public spaces, mainly streets and squares, in order to inform users and authorities about hazardous circumstances, public issues and other important information.

2008

Modern handheld devices provided with localization capabilities could be used to automatically create a diary of user's whereabouts, and use it as a complement of the user profile in many applications. In this paper we present the Whereabouts diary, an application/service to log the places visited by the user and to label them, in an automatic way, with descriptive semantic information. In particular, Web-retrieved data and the temporal patterns in which places are visited can be used to define such meaningful semantic labels. In this paper, we describe the general idea at the basis of our service and discuss our implementation and the associated experimental results. In addition, we illustrate an application that can fruitfully exploit the whereabouts diary as a supporting service, and discuss areas for future work.

SoftCom 2008: 16th International Conference on Software, Telecommuncations and Computer Networks, 2008

A travel book salesman needs current information that leads to the development of an information system about costumers, supplies, orders and the books themselves. Such scenario demands maximum mobility and rapid information retrieval that points to a mobile application. The paper presents an application developed for local and remote use, called InHand, that is context-aware, presenting information related to the current user context and provides location-aware support through the use of the Global Positioning System (GPS). The location system keeps track of a client's location, schedules client visits for a given day, help user navigate through a map using real-time position acquisition, and gather the pathway followed by a user on a given day. The application has two channels: server and mobile client. The mobile client can synchronize data with the server, and relies on a local database to minimize wireless traffic to a minimum. We use Remote Data Access and Web Services to access remote data in a convenient way. Although the application is designed with book selling in mind, the concept is perfectly extendable to other fields of application.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007

Emerging mobile location-based information services enable people to place digital content into the physical world. Based on three technical components (1) mobile devices, (2) wireless networking and (3) location-sensing the implementation of location-based services can be considered state of the art. In contrast, we observe a lack of conceptual work in terms of user interface issues, like designing indirect (one-to-any) addressing models, handling information overflow and avoiding spam. Every user is able to arbitrarily place information anywhere without structure or restrictions, and is confronted with an information mess in return. The focus of this paper concentrates on a novel addressing concept for mobile location-based information services, which systematically structures both direct and indirect addressing methods and supports the users in finding or filtering the information they are interested in.

Proceedings of the …, 2006

Location-aware messages left by people can make visible some aspects of their everyday experiences at a location. To understand the contextual factors surrounding how users produce and consume location-aware multimedia messaging (LMM), we use an experiencecentered framework that makes explicit the different aspects of an experience. Using this framework, we conducted an exploratory, diary study aimed at eliciting implications for the study and design of LMM systems. In an earlier pilot study, we found that subjects did not have enough time to fully capture their everyday experiences using an LMM prototype, which led us to conduct a longer study using a multimodal diary method. The diary study data (verified for reliability using a categorization task) provided a closer look at the different aspects (spatiotemporal, social, affective, and cognitive) of people's experience. From the data, we derive three main findings (predominant LMM domains and tasks, capturing experience vs. experience of capture, context-dependent personalization) to inform the study and design of future LMM systems.

2008

Wiki systems provide a simple interface paradigm that allow non-technical users to author collaborative on-line hypertexts. In this paper we propose to use the same simple paradigm to allow users to create content for ubiquitous information systems, and present LBWiki, a prototype location-based Wiki that allows users with a mobile device to create Wiki pages based on GPS co-ordinates.

This paper reports on original work that will determine opportunities for the development of mobile location-based services for different user groups.