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A Mobile System to Visualize Patterns of Everyday Life

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Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing ((AINSC,volume 92))

Abstract

The paper describes an ambient intelligence proposal, an application which runs on mobile phones, presenting individual users with an overview of their time usage patterns. It tracks users’ movements in space using GPS technology and displays this information, aiming to highlight changes to their normal routine. The output, a data visualization interface, displayed on the phone is designed to produce a highly personal topology of time usage. Rooted in a deep interest in unveiling the hidden patterns of everyday life, this work aims to research Ubicomp in a personal context. By placing the software literally in the user’s pocket (mobile phone), it is implied the best way for one to reflect upon the issue is through experience.

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  1. CITI and DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829 -516, Caparica, Portugal

    Nuno Correia, Armanda Rodrigues & Tiago Amorim

  2. CADA, Ed. Interpress, Rua Luz Soriano, 67, 3º, sala 43, 1200 – 246, Lisbon, Portugal

    Jared Hawkey & Sofia Oliveira

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Departamento de Informática, Universidade do Minho , Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal

    Paulo Novais

  2. Department of Computer Science , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven , Celestijnenlaan 200A, 02.152, B-3001, Heverlee, Belgium

    Davy Preuveneers

  3. Departamento de Informática y Automática Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced S/N, 37008, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan M. Corchado

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Correia, N., Rodrigues, A., Amorim, T., Hawkey, J., Oliveira, S. (2011). A Mobile System to Visualize Patterns of Everyday Life. In: Novais, P., Preuveneers, D., Corchado, J.M. (eds) Ambient Intelligence - Software and Applications. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 92. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19937-0_31

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