Title
Supporting location-aware services for mobile users with the whereabouts diary
Abstract
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.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2008
MOBILWARE
localization capability,mobile user,user profile,web-retrieved data,whereabouts diary,descriptive semantic information,future work,meaningful semantic label,supporting service,location-aware service,general idea,location services,handheld device,bayesian network,bayesian networks
Field
DocType
Citations 
World Wide Web,User profile,Computer science,Location-based service,Semantic information,Exploit,Bayesian network,Mobile device,Location aware
Conference
25
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.21
16
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nicola Bicocchi123322.11
Gabriella Castelli226320.63
Marco Mamei31521106.83
Alberto Rosi438122.56
Franco Zambonelli54662330.78