This demo shows several advanced use cases of location-based services and demonstrates how these use cases are facilitated by a mediation middleware for spatial information, the Nexus Platform. The scenario shows how a mobile user can access location-based information via so called Virtual Information Towers, register spatial events, send and receive geographical messages or find her friends by...

A consumer makes travel distance judgment to determine the place to visit. Stores that gain favorable travel distance judgment could gain access to a large volume of customer base. Travel distance judgment is often made with the aid of technologies, such as the mobile location-based service (LBS). In the present research-in-progress, we build on the human’s environmental distance information co...

Location-based services for users on the move provide a convenient means of filtering information based on current geographical position. However users also often want to retrieve or capture information associated with past or future locations. We show how new technologies for interactive paper can be used to augment conventional paper maps with location-based services using a combination of us...

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This paper reports on a study of privacy concerns related to location-based services in an airport, where users who volunteer for the service will be tracked for a limited period and within a limited area. Reactions elicited from travellers at a field trial showed 60% feeling to some or to a large degree more secure with the system in operation. To provide a background for the privacy study we ...

Facebook has received considerable attention in a number of research areas. However, its educational value has not been fully confirmed and results from the mainstream educational paradigms are contradictory. A number of experiences related to the educational use of Facebook as a technology-enhanced learning environment are also flourishing. In these, Facebook has been used as a unique, or at l...

This paper describes a possible solution how disaster management systems using mobile networks could serve as a basis for creating a standardized framework for privacy-friendly and worldwide interoperable location-based services. Positive network externalities can be realized by introducing intermediaries into today’s Location-based Services (LBS) architecture for achieving a higher degree of t...

Let A be an abelian variety defined over a non-prime finite field Fq that has embedding degree k with respect to a subgroup of prime order r. In this paper we give explicit conditions on q, k, and r that imply that the minimal embedding field of A with respect to r is Fqk . When these conditions hold, the embedding degree k is a good measure of the security level of a pairing-based cryptosystem...