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Congratulations to Informatics Master’s student, Jahnavi Kondragunta on receiving her Master’s degree based on her thesis, “Building a Context Aware Infrastructure Using Bluetooth”.
Abstract: Context qware applications are applications that behave according to the context they are placed in. Infrastructures can be integrated with such applications to develop context awareness and modify their behavior according to the changes in the context. In this paper we present a core system that aids in developing such applications. The system estimates the location of people around the infrastructure by observing the bluetooth devices that they carry. The applications can then use this information as desired. To study the viability of bluetooth tracking and the efficiency of the system, an experimental system was implemented and deployed on the 5th floor of Donald Bren Hall at the University of California, Irvine. The experimental system was put on a trial run and the results obtained were analyzed. The results show that building a successful tracking system based on Bluetooth is complex and requires significant changes to user behavior.
Read the full paper located in the LUCI Tech Report repository, LUCI-2011-001.
Congratulations Jahnavi!
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Ubi-Soda - April 12th, 2007
Here at UCI we have been infiltrated by the thing everyone saw coming but no one really wants – ubiquitous computing ads. At the bus stop by Lee’s Sandwiches there is a Pepsi ad that is Bluetooth enabled. This means that if you stand there long enough the ad will try and send your phone an ad. Out of curiosity I downloaded the ad and against many-a-security-warning I ran the java program. My phone crashed (Nokia 6600) and I never saw the very very very important message from PepsiCo, Inc.
If you get it to work, leave a comment to reveal the mystery of what the program does…
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