Integrated context-aware and cloud-based adaptive home screens for android phones

This is the post-print version of this Article. The official published version can be accessed from the link below - Copyright @ 2011 Springer VerlagThe home screen in Android phones is a highly customizable user interface where the users can add and remove widgets and icons for launching applications. This customization is currently done on the mobile device itself and will only create static content. Our work takes the concept of Android home screen [3] one step further and adds flexibility to the user interface by making it context-aware and integrated with the cloud. Overall results indicated that the users have a strong positive bias towards the application and that the adaptation helped them to tailor the device to their needs by using the different context aware mechanisms

A Cloud Service for COTS component-based Architectures

The management of software architectures is an important subject, especially in component-based web user interfaces to enhance their accessibility, dynamism and management at run-time. The Cloud offers some favorable mechanisms for this kind of systems, since it allows us to manage the software remotely, guarantees high availability of the resources and enables us to perform mass storage. This article presents an infrastructure solution, based on the use of web services and cloud computing, for managing COTS-based architectures

Computación en la Nube: Un estudio orientado para el despliegue de arquitecturas de componentes

Computación en la nubeLa Computación en la Nube es un concepto relativamente reciente en la literatura, que se ha ido consolidando cada vez más en cualquier ámbito y dominio de aplicación de la ingeniería informática, y considerado como un nuevo paradigma tecnológico para gestionar y ofrecer servicios de terceras partes a través de Internet. Aunque hoy dí a son muchos los trabajos existentes, este paradigma sigue en constante evolución, apareciendo continuamente en el tiempo nuevas metodologías, herramientas, y modelos de computación en la Nube. El presente documento es el resultado de un estudio realizado de la revisión de los trabajos más destacados en la literatura de la Computación en la Nube. La selección de los trabajos se ha realizado en base a aquellos que utilizan la Computación en la Nube como un mecanismo para el despliegue de Sistemas basados en Arquitecturas. El presente estudio pretende establecer las bases para el desarrollo de una metodología que permita el despliegue en la Nube de interfaces de usuario. A lo largo de este estudio se realiza un recorrido por la computación en la nube, cubriendo los conceptos esenciales, las arquitecturas que de finen esta tendencia, las características que identifican a este modelo de computación, algunas tecnologías que hacen posible su despliegue. Se estudia y analiza además los dominios de aplicación en los cuales se esta explotando la Computación en la Nube.Grupo informática aplicad

Cloud computing and context-awareness: A study of the adapted user experience

This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Today, mobile technology is part of everyday life and activities and the mobile ecosystems are blossoming, with smartphones and tablets being the major growth drivers. The mobile phones are no longer just another device, we rely on their capabilities in work and in private. We look to our mobile phones for timely and updated information and we rely on this being provided any time of any day at any place. Nevertheless, no matter how much you trust and love your mobile phone the quality of the information and the user experience is directly associated with the sources and presentation of information. In this perspective, our activities, interactions and preferences help shape the quality of service, content and products we use. Context-aware systems use such information about end-users as input mechanisms for producing applications based on mobile, location, social, cloud and customized content services. This represents new possibilities for extracting aggregated user-centric information and includes novel sources for context-aware applications. Accordingly, a Design Research based approach has been taken to further investigate the creation, presentation and tailoring of user-centric information. Through user evaluated experiments findings show how multi-dimensional context-aware information can be used to create adaptive solutions tailoring the user experience to the users’ needs. Research findings in this work; highlight possible architectures for integration of cloud computing services in a heterogeneous mobile environment in future context-aware solutions. When it comes to combining context-aware results from local computations with those of cloud based services, the results provide findings that give users tailored and adapted experiences based on the collective efforts of the two

Cloud computing and context-awareness : a study of the adapted user experience

Today, mobile technology is part of everyday life and activities and the mobile ecosystems are blossoming, with smartphones and tablets being the major growth drivers. The mobile phones are no longer just another device, we rely on their capabilities in work and in private. We look to our mobile phones for timely and updated information and we rely on this being provided any time of any day at any place. Nevertheless, no matter how much you trust and love your mobile phone the quality of the information and the user experience is directly associated with the sources and presentation of information. In this perspective, our activities, interactions and preferences help shape the quality of service, content and products we use. Context-aware systems use such information about end-users as input mechanisms for producing applications based on mobile, location, social, cloud and customized content services. This represents new possibilities for extracting aggregated user-centric information and includes novel sources for context-aware applications. Accordingly, a Design Research based approach has been taken to further investigate the creation, presentation and tailoring of user-centric information. Through user evaluated experiments findings show how multi-dimensional context-aware information can be used to create adaptive solutions tailoring the user experience to the users’ needs. Research findings in this work; highlight possible architectures for integration of cloud computing services in a heterogeneous mobile environment in future context-aware solutions. When it comes to combining context-aware results from local computations with those of cloud based services, the results provide findings that give users tailored and adapted experiences based on the collective efforts of the two.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo