On the potential of using conventional mobile communication technology for human context awareness in ubiquitous computing

Abstract

Human context acquisition is an important aspect of human computer interaction (HCI) for context aware ubiquitous computing. There are many state-of-art relatively obtrusive and unobtrusive approaches to accomplish the task of human context extraction. This paper surveys the state-of-the-art approaches and establishes the possibility of using the conventional mobile communication as an enabler for nearly unobtrusive human context acquisition in a smart ubiquitous environment. This paper studies the technical intricacies behind using the mobile communication technologies for such purposes and proposes how it can be used for such an 'augmented' utility in smart spaces. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.