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UVa Bus.NET: Enhancing User Experiences on Smart Devices Through Context-Aware Computing

Overview The compact, mobile device such as the PocketPC is often regarded as little more than a handy, smaller "Portal" by which to access information kept on larger back-end machines such as Exchange Servers and WWW Servers. However, the true value of the device may ultimately result from more sophisticated algorithms and approaches by which the device can fully recognize and change its behavior based on its context includes its location, remaining battery life, available networking, and user preferences. This paper presents "UVa Bus.NET", a testbed at the University of Virginia for developing and evaluating general, context-aware, mobile solutions.

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Publisher	University of Virginia	File Format	PDF
Date Published	July 2003
Format	White Papers
Topics	.NET, Application Development

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