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  • Article
  • Open Access
72 Citations
11,370 Views
26 Pages

25 March 2014

Context-awareness is an interesting topic in mobile navigation scenarios where the context of the application is highly dynamic. Using context-aware computing, navigation services consider the situation of user, not only in the design process, but in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,489 Views
10 Pages

19 October 2021

Expert systems, a form of artificial intelligence (AI), are typically designed to solve many real-world problems by reasoning through knowledge, which is primarily represented as IF–THEN rules, with the information acquired from humans or domain expe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,062 Views
20 Pages

10 November 2023

This study proposes a framework for a systems engineering-based approach to context-aware personalization, which is applied to e-commerce through the understanding and modeling of user behavior from their interactions with sales channels and media. T...

  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,742 Views
45 Pages

29 June 2023

Smart living, an increasingly prominent concept, entails incorporating sophisticated technologies in homes and urban environments to elevate the quality of life for citizens. A critical success factor for smart living services and applications, from...

  • Data Descriptor
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,043 Views
11 Pages

HANDY: A Benchmark Dataset for Context-Awareness via Wrist-Worn Motion Sensors

  • Koray Açıcı,
  • Çağatay Berke Erdaş,
  • Tunç Aşuroğlu and
  • Hasan Oğul

24 June 2018

Being aware of a personal context is a promising task for various applications, such as biometry, human-computer interactions, telemonitoring, remote care, mobile marketing and security. The task can be formally defined as the classification of a per...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,729 Views
18 Pages

2 September 2025

Recent developments in large language models allow for real time, context-aware tutoring. AI Gem, presented in this article, is a layered architecture that integrates personalization, adaptive feedback, and curricular alignment into transformer based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
873 Views
17 Pages

14 November 2025

This study evaluates the performance of seven large language models (LLMs) in generating context-aware recommendations. The system is built on a collection of PDF documents (brochures) describing local events and activities, which are embedded into a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,823 Views
17 Pages

Nudging provides a way to gently influence people to change behavior towards a desired goal, e.g., by moving towards a healthier or more environmentally friendly lifestyle. Personalized and context-aware digital nudging (named smart nudging) can be a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,849 Views
26 Pages

Personalized Smart Home Automation Using Machine Learning: Predicting User Activities

  • Mark M. Gad,
  • Walaa Gad,
  • Tamer Abdelkader and
  • Kshirasagar Naik

2 October 2025

A personalized framework for smart home automation is introduced, utilizing machine learning to predict user activities and allow for the context-aware control of living spaces. Predicting user activities, such as ‘Watch_TV’, ‘Sleep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,062 Views
20 Pages

14 July 2025

Background/Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate a regional implementation project for rural emergency care (RuralRescue) and to examine how its components and outcomes may support personalized approaches in emergency medicine. While not originall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,507 Views
23 Pages

19 February 2025

Smart homes have become an important part of our daily lives, changing our habits to make them easier to live with in a sustainable way. This study highlights a context-sensitive system that continuously adapts to the user’s current activities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,042 Views
11 Pages

27 March 2023

The IoT is a specific type of network with its own communication challenges. There are a multitude of low-power devices monitoring the environment. Thus, the need for authentication may be addressed by many available sensors but should be performed o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
852 Views
10 Pages

A Model for Context Aware Mobile Payment

  • Leila Abedi,
  • Mohammadali Nematbakhsh and
  • Abbas Abdolmaleki

With the advent of mobile networks and mobile devices, mobile payment has been attractive to many ecommerce users. Mobile environment features a wide range and an increasing number of access devices and network technologies. Context-aware content/ser...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,587 Views
18 Pages

Tangible and Personalized DS Application Approach in Cultural Heritage: The CHATS Project

  • Giorgos Trichopoulos,
  • John Aliprantis,
  • Markos Konstantakis,
  • Konstantinos Michalakis and
  • George Caridakis

31 January 2022

Storytelling is widely used to project cultural elements and engage people emotionally. Digital storytelling enhances the process by integrating images, music, narrative, and voice along with traditional storytelling methods. Newer visualization tech...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
9,390 Views
16 Pages

Large Language Models as Recommendation Systems in Museums

  • Georgios Trichopoulos,
  • Markos Konstantakis,
  • Georgios Alexandridis and
  • George Caridakis

10 September 2023

This paper proposes the utilization of large language models as recommendation systems for museum visitors. Since the aforementioned models lack the notion of context, they cannot work with temporal information that is often present in recommendation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,584 Views
19 Pages

THOR: A Hybrid Recommender System for the Personalized Travel Experience

  • Alireza Javadian Sabet,
  • Mahsa Shekari,
  • Chaofeng Guan,
  • Matteo Rossi,
  • Fabio Schreiber and
  • Letizia Tanca

One of the travelers’ main challenges is that they have to spend a great effort to find and choose the most desired travel offer(s) among a vast list of non-categorized and non-personalized items. Recommendation systems provide an effective way...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
5,245 Views
14 Pages

1 April 2020

This paper mainly formulates the problem of predicting context-aware smartphone apps usage based on machine learning techniques. In the real world, people use various kinds of smartphone apps differently in different contexts that include both the us...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,922 Views
29 Pages

Context-Aware End-User Development Review

  • Victor Ponce and
  • Bessam Abdulrazak

4 January 2022

Context-aware application development frameworks enable context management and environment adaptation to automatize people’s activities. New technologies such as 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT) increase environment context (from devices/ser...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,174 Views
14 Pages

In order to predict and recommend what users want, users’ information is required, and more information is required to improve the performance of the recommender system. As IoT devices and smartphones have made it possible to know the user&rsqu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,523 Views
25 Pages

A Context-Aware Middleware for Context Modeling and Reasoning: A Case-Study in Smart Cultural Spaces

  • Konstantinos Michalakis,
  • Yannis Christodoulou,
  • George Caridakis,
  • Yorghos Voutos and
  • Phivos Mylonas

22 June 2021

The proliferation of smart things and the subsequent emergence of the Internet of Things has motivated the deployment of intelligent spaces that provide automated services to users. Context-awareness refers to the ability of the system to be aware of...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
97 Citations
16,693 Views
16 Pages

Smart Learning Services Based on Smart Cloud Computing

  • Svetlana Kim,
  • Su-Mi Song and
  • Yong-Ik Yoon

9 August 2011

Context-aware technologies can make e-learning services smarter and more efficient since context-aware services are based on the user’s behavior. To add those technologies into existing e-learning services, a service architecture model is needed to t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,296 Views
22 Pages

A Methodology and a Web Platform for the Collaborative Development of Context-Aware Systems

  • David Martín,
  • Diego López-de-Ipiña,
  • Aurkene Alzua-Sorzabal,
  • Carlos Lamsfus and
  • Emilio Torres-Manzanera

10 May 2013

Information and services personalization is essential for an optimal user experience. Systems have to be able to acquire data about the user’s context, process them in order to identify the user’s situation and finally, adapt the functionality of the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,234 Views
26 Pages

19 October 2022

The practice of quantified-self sleep tracking has become increasingly common among healthy individuals as well as patients with sleep problems. However, existing sleep-tracking technologies only support simple data collection and visualization and a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
7,089 Views
19 Pages

Recently, the increasing availability of digital cameras and the rapid advances in social media have led to the accumulation of a large number of geotagged photos, which may reflect people’s travel experiences in different cities and can be used to g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,063 Views
19 Pages

A Vision-Based Approach for Building Telecare and Telerehabilitation Services

  • Angela Barriga,
  • José M. Conejero,
  • Juan Hernández,
  • Elena Jurado,
  • Enrique Moguel and
  • Fernando Sánchez-Figueroa

18 October 2016

In the last few years, telerehabilitation and telecare have become important topics in healthcare since they enable people to remain independent in their own homes by providing person-centered technologies to support the individual. These technologie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,838 Views
22 Pages

A Context-Aware Indoor Air Quality System for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Prevention

  • Daniel H. De La Iglesia,
  • Juan F. De Paz,
  • Gabriel Villarrubia González,
  • Alberto L. Barriuso and
  • Javier Bajo

2 March 2018

Context-aware monitoring systems designed for e-Health solutions and ambient assisted living (AAL) play an important role in today’s personalized health-care services. The majority of these systems are intended for the monitoring of patients’ vital s...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,866 Views
39 Pages

12 February 2025

The integration of the Internet of Things (IoT) in education has fundamentally transformed personalized online learning (POL), enabling adaptive, context-aware environments that tailor learning based on real-time environmental data or device usage. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,661 Views
37 Pages

19 June 2022

Virtual Reality (VR) has been adopted as a leading technology for the metaverse, yet most previous VR systems provide one-size-fits-all experiences to users. Context-awareness in VR enables personalized experiences in the metaverse, such as improved...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
8,269 Views
53 Pages

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools in cyber security, enabling automation, threat detection, and adaptive learning. Their ability to process unstructured data and generate context-aware outputs supports both operational tasks...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,400 Views
22 Pages

SmartContent—Self-Protected Context-Aware Active Documents for Mobile Environments

  • Francesco Luca De Angelis and
  • Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo

Mobile devices make it possible to create, store, access, share or publish personal content on the Internet, anywhere and at anytime. This leads to situations of potential intentional or unintentional misuse of content as well as privacy issues. Rece...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,292 Views
18 Pages

30 January 2024

As several studies demonstrate, good sleep quality is essential for individuals’ well-being, as a lack of restoring sleep may disrupt different physical, mental, and social dimensions of health. For this reason, there is increasing interest in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,959 Views
28 Pages

Ubiquitous Tourist System Based on Multicriteria Decision Making and Augmented Reality

  • Somaiieh Rokhsaritalemi,
  • Abolghasem Sadeghi-Niaraki,
  • Ho-San Kang,
  • Jong-Won Lee and
  • Soo-Mi Choi

22 May 2022

Increasing global demand for travel has drawn public attention to the tourism industry. This industry needs the design of intelligent systems based on new concepts to facilitate better service delivery. To this end, this study proposes a ubiquitous t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,091 Views
34 Pages

27 September 2023

People with disabilities are severely underrepresented in the open labor market. Yet, pursuing a job has a positive impact in many aspects of life. This paper presents a possible approach to improve inclusion by including a robotic manipulator into c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
123 Citations
22,318 Views
25 Pages

Context-Aware Recommender System: A Review of Recent Developmental Process and Future Research Direction

  • Khalid Haruna,
  • Maizatul Akmar Ismail,
  • Suhendroyono Suhendroyono,
  • Damiasih Damiasih,
  • Adi Cilik Pierewan,
  • Haruna Chiroma and
  • Tutut Herawan

5 December 2017

Intelligent data handling techniques are beneficial for users; to store, process, analyze and access the vast amount of information produced by electronic and automated devices. The leading approach is to use recommender systems (RS) to extract relev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
11,648 Views
22 Pages

Geospatial Analysis and the Internet of Things

  • Andreas Kamilaris and
  • Frank O. Ostermann

As the Internet of Things (IoT) penetrates our everyday lives, being used to address a wide variety of real-life challenges and problems, the location of things becomes an important parameter. The exact location of measuring the physical world throug...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
2 Citations
10,021 Views
6 Pages

23 May 2012

The social transformations brought about by the mobile internet are extensive. In discussing the broad range of these transformations—positioned as a shift from personal computing to pervasive computing—this editorial elaborates on the key contributi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,356 Views
16 Pages

Context Sensing System Analysis for Privacy Preservation Based on Game Theory

  • Shengling Wang,
  • Luyun Li,
  • Weiman Sun,
  • Junqi Guo,
  • Rongfang Bie and
  • Kai Lin

10 February 2017

In a context sensing system in which a sensor-equipped mobile phone runs an unreliable context-aware application, the application can infer the user’s contexts, based on which it provides personalized services. However, the application may sell the u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,673 Views
23 Pages

Vehicle Maneuver Detection with Accelerometer-Based Classification

  • Javier Cervantes-Villanueva,
  • Daniel Carrillo-Zapata,
  • Fernando Terroso-Saenz,
  • Mercedes Valdes-Vela and
  • Antonio F. Skarmeta

29 September 2016

In the mobile computing era, smartphones have become instrumental tools to develop innovative mobile context-aware systems. In that sense, their usage in the vehicular domain eases the development of novel and personal transportation solutions. In th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,826 Views
22 Pages

Reinforcement Learning Methods for Emulating Personality in a Game Environment

  • Georgios Liapis,
  • Anna Vordou,
  • Stavros Nikolaidis and
  • Ioannis Vlahavas

15 July 2025

Reinforcement learning (RL), a branch of artificial intelligence (AI), is becoming more popular in a variety of application fields such as games, workplaces, and behavioral analysis, due to its ability to model complex decision-making through interac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,319 Views
17 Pages

25 March 2025

With the rise of e-commerce and web application usage, recommendation systems have become important to our daily tasks. They provide personalized suggestions to assist with any task under consideration. While various machine learning algorithms have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,334 Views
14 Pages

Towards Next Generation Technical Documentation in Augmented Reality Using a Context-Aware Information Manager

  • Michele Gattullo,
  • Alessandro Evangelista,
  • Vito M. Manghisi,
  • Antonio E. Uva,
  • Michele Fiorentino,
  • Antonio Boccaccio,
  • Michele Ruta and
  • Joseph L. Gabbard

22 January 2020

Technical documentation is evolving from static contents presented on paper or via digital publishing to real-time on-demand contents displayed via virtual and augmented reality (AR) devices. However, how best to provide personalized and context-rele...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,111 Views
19 Pages

Construction of a Person–Job Temporal Knowledge Graph Using Large Language Models

  • Zhongshan Zhang,
  • Junzhi Wang,
  • Bo Li,
  • Xiang Lin and
  • Mingyu Liu

Person–job data are multi-source, heterogeneous, and strongly temporal, making knowledge modeling and analysis challenging. We present an automated approach for constructing a Human-Resources Temporal Knowledge Graph. We first formalize a schem...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
12,074 Views
28 Pages

From Traditional Recommender Systems to GPT-Based Chatbots: A Survey of Recent Developments and Future Directions

  • Tamim Mahmud Al-Hasan,
  • Aya Nabil Sayed,
  • Faycal Bensaali,
  • Yassine Himeur,
  • Iraklis Varlamis and
  • George Dimitrakopoulos

Recommender systems are a key technology for many applications, such as e-commerce, streaming media, and social media. Traditional recommender systems rely on collaborative filtering or content-based filtering to make recommendations. However, these...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,769 Views
33 Pages

24 November 2025

In 2024, a total of 361 billion emails were sent and received by businesses and consumers each day. Email remains the preferred method of communication for work-related matters, with knowledge workers spending two to five hours a day managing their i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,767 Views
22 Pages

Advancing Smart Home Awareness—A Conceptual Computational Modelling Framework for the Execution of Daily Activities of People with Alzheimer’s Disease

  • Nikolaos Liappas,
  • José Gabriel Teriús-Padrón,
  • Rebeca Isabel García-Betances and
  • María Fernanda Cabrera-Umpiérrez

27 December 2021

Utilizing context-aware tools in smart homes (SH) helps to incorporate higher quality interaction paradigms between the house and specific groups of users such as people with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). One method of delivering these interaction...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
10,760 Views
19 Pages

A Presence-Based Context-Aware Chronic Stress Recognition System

  • Klemen Peternel,
  • Matevž Pogačnik,
  • Rudi Tavčar and
  • Andrej Kos

16 November 2012

Stressors encountered in daily life may play an important role in personal well-being. Chronic stress can have a serious long-term impact on our physical as well as our psychological health, due to ongoing increased levels of the chemicals released i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
845 Views
19 Pages

Image Sensor-Supported Multimodal Attention Modeling for Educational Intelligence

  • Yanlin Chen,
  • Yingqiu Yang,
  • Zeyu Lan,
  • Xinyuan Chen,
  • Haoyuan Zhan,
  • Lingxi Yu and
  • Yan Zhan

10 September 2025

To address the limitations of low fusion efficiency and insufficient personalization in multimodal perception for educational intelligence, a novel deep learning framework is proposed that integrates image sensor data with textual and contextual info...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,555 Views
27 Pages

The Santurbán paramo is a sensitive high-mountain ecosystem exposed to pressures from extractive and agricultural activities, as well as increasing tourism. In response, this study presents a context-aware recommendation system designed to sup...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
10,988 Views
47 Pages

29 August 2025

Wearable computing is evolving from a passive data collection paradigm into an active, precision-guided health orchestration system. This survey synthesizes developments across sensing modalities, wireless protocols, computational frameworks, and AI-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,650 Views
22 Pages

Applications and Security of Next-Generation, User-Centric Wireless Systems

  • Jerry Rick Ramstetter,
  • Yaling Yang and
  • Danfeng Yao

28 July 2010

Pervasive wireless systems have significantly improved end-users’ quality of life. As manufacturing costs decrease, communications bandwidth increases, and contextual information is made more readily available, the role of next generation wireless sy...

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