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Context-awareness can improve the usefulness of automated reminders. However, context-aware reminder applications have yet to be evaluated throughout a person’s daily life. Mobile phones provide a potentially convenient and truly ubiquitous platform for the detection of personal context such as location, as well as the delivery of reminders. We designed Place-Its, a location-based reminder application that runs on mobile phones, to study people using location-aware reminders throughout their daily lives. We describe the de-sign of Place-Its and a two-week exploratory user study. The study reveals that location-based reminders are useful, in large part because people use location in nuanced ways.
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Sohn, T., Li, K.A., Lee, G., Smith, I., Scott, J., Griswold, W.G. (2005). Place-Its: A Study of Location-Based Reminders on Mobile Phones. In: Beigl, M., Intille, S., Rekimoto, J., Tokuda, H. (eds) UbiComp 2005: Ubiquitous Computing. UbiComp 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3660. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11551201_14
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