Context and context-awareness provides computing environments with the ability to usefully adapt the services or information they provide. It is the ability to implicitly sense and automatically derive the user needs that separates context-aware applications from traditionally designed applications, and this makes them more attentive, responsive, and aware of their user’s identity, and their us...

This paper presents the preliminary results in the development of a framework for ubiquitous monitoring in a Intensive Care Unit environment, which aims at enabling mobile access to real-time bedside monitoring data and to a comprehensive electronic patient’s clinical record at any moment in time and from any location, by means of a PDA device capable of secure wireless communications. The main...

With the rapid progress on the Internet Technology, many projects have been proposed in terms of remote education system such as WBT (Web-Based Training) and E-learning. Such systems can help learners for studying by themselves based on their own learning history in a virtual world. However, learners usually spend time in the real world during studying, exercising, and the other activities. It ...