About the Project

The recent widespread use of smartphones has enabled advanced location-based services for mobile users. Location information is a fundamental requirement for such services. GPS is used as a common locating solution in the outdoor environment, but people in urban environments spend much of their time indoors where user locating is difficult, yet a location-based service should be provided. We have developed  a smartphone-based context provider, LifeMap, for providing advanced location-based services for mobile users and human-centric mobile sensing. LifeMap is a real-time system which fuses accelerometer, digital compass, Wi-Fi, and GPS in order to do tracking and to automatically identify points of interest with room-level accuracy.  LifeMap provides human mobility with user context  for research communities.

Following research projects involve with LifeMap:

• Exploiting human mobility patterns (with Microsoft Research Asia).
• Modeling human mobility for mobility prediction.
• Smartphone-based spontaneous networks.
• Finding missing mobile.

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