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"All-about" diaries: concepts and experiences

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Smart phones and pervasive computing technologies enable the vision of all-about diaries: tools for recording, in a browsable and machine-processable format, the everyday activities and events of people, communities, objects and places. Diaries offer a wealth of opportunities for consumers and industries. Yet, while proposals exist indicating promising approaches to implement parts of them, several challenges still have to be faced to produce fully-edged working systems. In this paper we discuss opportunities and technologies that enable such diaries to be created. Then, we present a prototype of a diary based on location data.

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COMSWARE '11: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Communication System Software and Middleware
July 2011
123 pages
ISBN:9781450305600
DOI:10.1145/2016551
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  1. context awareness
  2. life logging
  3. pattern analysis location-based services
  4. pervasive computing

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