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‘Location is not enough!’: an Empirical Study of Location-Awareness in Mobile Collaboration

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The effects of mutual location-awareness on group coordination

Pierre Dillenbourg, Nicolas Nova

The importance of space and place in collaborative practices has been strengthened with the ubiquitous computing paradigm, which aims at the integration of computation in physical objects and places. New location-based applications allow users to know wher ...

2010

A Mobile World of Security

Rüdiger Urbanke, Christina Fragouli, Panagiotis Papadimitratos, Christine Neuberg

Mobile users are increasing fast in numbers, new types of services and applications become available, and new mobile systems (e.g., for intelligent transportation) emerge. Meanwhile, the need for securing communication in such large scale, highly dynamic s ...

2010

Sampling Urban Mobility through On-line Repositories of GPS Tracks

We analyze urban mobility by relying on the short-term mobility traces gathered from a publicly available web-based repository of GPS tracks - the Nokia Sports Tracker service. All mobility traces are obtained from a set of kml files. We show how the data ...

ACM2009

Location Privacy amidst Local Eavesdroppers

Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert

Mobile social networks and location-aware applications are becoming more and more widespread in current wireless networks. Thanks to WiFi or Bluetooth-enabled devices, everyday mobile users can enjoy new services. However, the deployment of these mobile te ...

2009

A Modular Data Infrastructure for Location-Based Services

Stefano Spaccapietra, Shijun Yu

Knowledgable Location-ha,sed Services (LBS) aim at enabling mobile users to specify their requests and profiles oil the move and providing there with context-aware and personalized local information relevant to their current, activity and request. Therefor ...

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Color Match: An Imaging Based Mobile Cosmetics Advisory Service

Sabine Süsstrunk

In this paper we describe an exploratory study of a mobile cosmetic advisory system that enables women to select appropriate colors of cosmetics. This system is intended for commercial use to address the problem of foundation color selection. Although wome ...

ACM2008

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) - Attacks and Countermeasures

Aleksandar Jovanovic

Increasing numbers of mobile computing devices, user-portable, or embedded in vehicles, cargo containers, or the physical space, need to be aware of their location in order to provide a wide range of commercial services. Most often, mobile devices obtain t ...

2008

GEO-RBAC: A spatially aware RBAC

Maria Luisa Damiani

Securing access to data in location- based services and mobile applications requires the definition of spatially aware access- control systems. Even if some approaches have already been proposed either in the context of geographic database systems or conte ...

2007

The influences of location awareness on computer-supported collaboration

Nicolas Nova

"Where are you?". This recurring question when opening a mobile conversation attests the importance of spatialisation in social interactions. More and more applications support mutual location-awareness: they enable members of a group to locate their partn ...

EPFL2007

Data security in location-aware applications: an approach based on RBAC

Maria Luisa Damiani

Data security in a mobile context is a critical issue. Over the last few years a new category of location-based services, the Enterprise LBS (ELBS), has emerged focusing on the demands of mobility in organisations. These applications pose challenging requi ...

2007