Ana Belen Lago Vilarino

University of Deusto | DEUSTO

In the last years context awareness has become a reality in real-world applications. However, building comprehensive context recognition systems which are able to recognize both low and high-level context information remains a challenge. In this paper, we discuss environment recognition as a means to address the issue of recognizing a high-level us...

Inside the usability research field, mobile devices have gained a lot of importance. This kind of devices has improved exponentially. They have acquired personal computer working capabilities and small sensors that enrich their software applications. However, the development of the usability field for these applications and devices has not improved...

New communication and social interaction tools, such as social networks, are not usually designed taking into account collectives with little technological knowledge and interaction difficulties, as is the case of the elderly. This leads to an undesirable increase in the digital divide and the degree of isolation corresponding to these groups. Henc...

Due to the advances in the ICTs in recent years, the variety of communication means at our disposal has noticeably increased. Some communication means offer simple tools to inform users about the status and availability of their contacts. However, not all of them offer this functionality, and indeed, elements like context, preferences and habits of...

The advances in ICTs have been significant during the last years, but progress in this area has not been accompanied by so significant improvements in user experience techniques. This has led to a certain group of people being unable to make use and benefit from the advanced features and services offered by these technologies. One of the most innov...

Several mobile acceptance models exist today that focus on user interface handling and usage frequency evaluation. Since mobile applications reach much deeper into everyday life, it is however important to better consider user behaviour for the service evaluation. In this paper we introduce the Behaviour Assessment Model (BAM), which is designed to...

Mobile phones enable us to carry out a wider range of tasks every day, and as a result they have become more ubiquitous than ever. However, they are still more limited in terms of processing power and interaction capabilities than traditional computers, and the often distracting and time-constricted scenarios in which we use them do not help in all...

Despite the latest advances in computing, traditional paper is still widely used in learning and knowledge work. Most current learning technologies do not consider this paper-centric practice and focus on a complete digitization of learning contents, activities, and communication. This paper presents an e-learning platform that combines work with p...

Due to the latest advances in mobile technologies, the mobile phone has turned into an almost essential device in everyday life and one which grants access to a great variety of services. However, a problem arises when it comes to interacting with devices of this kind. Thus, even if most of the population is capable of working with them, there are...

The number of mobile devices with Internet connectivity exponentially increases every year. Furthermore, these devices are more and more important not only in business contexts, but also in particular ones. The efficiency of a user performing a task with a mobile device can drastically vary because of its context dependency. Therefore, it is vital...

Thanks to advances made in ICT in recent years, there is now a wide range of communication means available to users. This raises an issue when it comes to communicating with our contacts, as we have little or no help to decide which communication means to use in each case. In this paper we present a platform that enables users to register the commu...

Most of the mobile phones have turned into full-connected devices. This provides companies with a perfect channel to interact with their potential clients and employees. The quality of the experience with these applications can directly affect the profits of the company it represents. Focusing on the mobile field and its extremely dynamic context,...

Mobile devices have undergone great changes in the last few years, turning into powerful hand-held computers. This, together with the numerous information sources they have access to, both in form of physical sensors and applications with access to the Internet and large amounts of personal data, make them an ideal platform for the deployment of co...

Several mobile acceptance models exist today that focus on user interface handling and usage frequency evaluation. Since mobile applications reach much deeper into everyday life, it is however important to better consider user behaviour for the service evaluation. In this paper we introduce the Behaviour Assessment Model (BAM), which is designed to...

Mobile devices have become an excellent platform for the deployment of context-aware applications due to their market share rise, the permanent use we make of them and the great variety of sensors they come with. In this article we present a context management infrastructure whose task is to administer the context information in mobile environments...

Information and Knowledge Society is involved into a more challenging phenomenon than ever. The ability of mobile devices to access information and services from anywhere and anytime is the main reason that empowers the massive usage of this kind of technology. Software quality has to be improved by developing mobile device interaction models accor...

Although day by day Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are becoming increasingly important, the physical paper is widely used, especially in education. The majority of the technologies that are being implemented in education are ignoring this fact, digitizing every content and communication activities without considering the preferenc...

In a world more and more competitive, where the requirements and demands from technology-aware users grow as the supply is increased, telecom operators face great challenges to be able to deliver their products. In order to achieve this, enterprises are growing awareness of the fact that evaluating the product's internal and external quality is not...

Reducing the energy consumed by mobile wireless devices to extend the lifetime of the batteries that power them is one of the major challenges in designing such systems. While this problem can be addressed at various levels (e.g. device, operating system, middleware, application), we think that it is possible to get a higher energy saving when cons...

Resumen El presente trabajo expone la arquitectura y resultados del proyecto WALLIP, una infraestructura multicapa que permite el desarrollo de aplicaciones móviles que perciben información contextual de la posición del usuario, sus preferencias de localización, etc. en redes móviles. Evaluando esta información, proporcionan sugerencias adecuadas e...

A pesar de que las Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones están cada vez más presentes en el día a día, el papel tradicional se usa ampliamente, especialmente, en la educación. La mayoría de las tecnologías que se están implantando en el ámbito educativo han obviado este hecho, digitalizando completamente los contenidos, las actividades...

Mobile computing has become an integral part of everyday life for the new 'Information and Knowledge Society'. The new generation of mobile devices and their full connection capabilities enable users to access a wide choice of services and knowledge from everywhere. Owing to this tendency, access to these services has to be improved by developing m...

The exponential evolution that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have suffered the last years has been one of the reasons why all type of sectors as industrial or educational have improved their productivity. One of the disadvantages of this fast evolution is that not all users have been used to this new technologies, basically becau...

En un mundo cada vez más competitivo, en el que el grado de exigencia y formación del usuario crece a medida que aumenta la oferta, las empresas de telecomunicaciones afrontan grandes desafíos en el proceso de puesta en el mercado de sus productos. Para lograrlo, las empresas son cada vez más conscientes de que no sólo hay que evaluar la calidad in...