The ability to infer user context based on a mobile device together with a set of external sensors opens up the way to new contextaware services and applications. In this paper, we describe a mobile context provider that makes use of sensors available in a smartphone as well as sensors externally connected via bluetooth. We describe the system architecture from sensor data acquisition to featur...

The increased use of social networking applications on smartphones makes these devices a goldmine for forensic investigators. Potential evidence can be held on these devices and recovered with the right tools and examination methods. This paper focuses on conducting forensic analyses on three widely used social networking applications on smartphones: Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. The tests we...

Mobile networks practice of social networking service that gives individuals an easy way to exchange messages and ideas with others base on interpersonal relationships. However, why individuals spread advertisements in their social circles through mobile applications is not well understood: is this the result of environment impact or the result of individual characteristics? To tackle this prob...

Recommender Systems (RS) have been extensively utilized as a means of reducing the information overload and offering travel recommendations to tourists. The emerging mobile RSs are tailored to mobile device users and promise to substantially enrich tourist experiences, recommending rich multimedia content, context‐aware services, views/ratings of peer u...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of diabetes in the Gulf States is one of the highest globally. It is estimated that 20% of the population in the region has been diagnosed with diabetes and according to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), five of the IDF's "top 10" countries for diabetes prevalence in 2011 and projected for 2030 are in this region. In recent years, there have been an increasi...

As mobile devices enter a new era with high speed connectivity and increasing compute capabilities a new class of applications called social networking applications is being showcased as the next revolution in mobile computing. In this class of applications each user in a social group contributes their knowledge about their surrounding environments and the collective knowledge can then be explo...

Social networking has provided powerful new ways to find people, organize groups, and share information. Recently, the potential functionalities of the ubiquitous infrastructure let users form a mobile social network (MSN) which is discriminative against the previous social networks based on the Internet. Since a mobile phone is used in a much wider range of situations and is carried by the use...

Due to the penetration of the Internet, social mobile games have become one of the most popular entertaining virtual activities and hence, created a new market for online social networking. In this project, the authors examine the factors that drive consumers’ intentions to play social mobile games and spread positive wordof-mouth about the games. Expanding the Uses and Gratifications Theory, a...