on a wide range of computing services. The technological advances that underlie the laptop, PDA, or cell phone also provide the foundation for nontraditional computer-based devices such as interactive walls, tables, and chairs-examples of roomware components that provide new functionality when combined

performance. Specifically, we propose to have a separate popularity based cache and a prefetch buffer at the network edge to capture both long-term and short-term content access patterns. Further, we point out that it is insufficient to rely on a device’s past history to predict when and where to prefetch

users ’ location search characteristics differ from those of regular web search. In particular, we analyze query- and session-based characteristics and the temporal distribution of location searches performed on smart phones and tablet computers. Our findings may be used to improve the design of search

In recent years computational devices have become afford-able to the point where is common for a user to own mobile phones, PDAs, Laptops and Desktops. He may use these de-vices both for entertaining purposes or in order to perform his work anywhere. Due to this fact it is expected that a user

of moving and calling behaviors. Keywords: Mobile Computing, Distributed Database Systems, Locati...

time, offer great opportunities for impactful HCI research. In this talk, I will focus on gesture-based interaction, an important interaction behavior enabled by touchscreens and built-in sensors, which sets mobile interaction apart from traditional graphical user interfaces. I will first talk about

sophisticated approaches by which the device can fully recognize and change its behavior based on its context such as location, remaining battery life, available networking, and user preferences. In this paper, we present “UVa Bus.NET”, a testbed at the University of Virginia for developing and evaluating

on a commercial smart-phone. The developed application was tested in an indoor environment and was found to accurately predict intended destination and to provide effective navigation guidance to the user. Keywords-GPS-free localization; resource-constrained pathplanning; MDP-based intention prediction

-aware approaches which exploits human predictability, recent advances in storage, edge/cloud computing and big data analytics are needed. In this article, we approach this problem from a proactive caching perspective where gains of cache-enabled base stations in 5G wireless are studied. In particular, huge amount

increasing amounts of dynamic and personalized Web content, and (b) a significant growth in “on-the-move” access using various mobile resource-constrained devices by nomadic users. Web caching and the content distribution network (CDN) are popular solutions for improving Web access latency and have