CLOSE TO THE ARCTIC CIRCLE

• Main Authors: Andrew Campbell, Tanzeem Choudhury
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Arctic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.298.1712; http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~campbell/cognitivephone.pdf

Over the years, smartphones that integrate sensors have enabled many novel mobile capabilities. This article examines the trend in sensor-based applications, and where it might ultimately lead us. —Roy Want As smartphones get smarter by utilizing new intelligence in the phone and the cloud, they’ll start to understand our life patterns, reason about our health and well-being, help us navigate through our day, and intervene on our behalf. Here, we present various smartphone sensing systems that we’ve built over the years, arguing that, eventually, smartphones will become cognitive. First, however, we look back at how sensing capabilities in phones evolved.