Sensing techniques for mobile interaction
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IEEE Pervasive Computing
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MobiUS: enable together-viewing video experience across two mobile devices
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Context-for-wireless: context-sensitive energy-efficient wireless data transfer
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services
COMBINE: leveraging the power of wireless peers through collaborative downloading
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services
The pothole patrol: using a mobile sensor network for road surface monitoring
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
Peopletones: a system for the detection and notification of buddy proximity on mobile phones
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
Place lab: device positioning using radio beacons in the wild
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Characterizing the transport behaviour of the short message service
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
The challenges in large-scale smartphone user studies
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ICIDS'10 Proceedings of the Third joint conference on Interactive digital storytelling
SystemSens: a tool for monitoring usage in smartphone research deployments
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A hybrid mass participation approach to mobile software trials
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Capturing Basic Movements for Mobile Gaming Platforms Embedded with Motion Sensors
International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications
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Survey and analysis of current mobile learning applications and technologies
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
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The use of smartphones is growing at an unprecedented rate and is projected to soon pass laptops as consumers' mobile platform of choice. The proliferation of these devices has created new opportunities for mobile researchers; however, when faced with hundreds of devices across nearly a dozen development platforms, selecting the ideal platform is often met with unanswered questions. In this paper I consider desirable characteristics of mobile platforms necessary for mobile networks research. Based on these characteristics, I assess five smartphone platforms: Android (Linux), BlackBerry, iPhone (Mac OS X), Symbian, and Windows Mobile. This survey is current as of December 2008. A living version of this survey is available at: http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/eaoliver/platforms/.