Location Based Services Acceptance and Adoption Evaluation: An Investigation on Mobile Phone Users’ Response to Awareness and Utilization of LBS Technology in Nairobi Kenya

Location Based Navigation System (LBNS) is a specific Location Based Service (LBS) purely for navigational purpose. These systems resolve position of a user by using GNSS/GPS positioning technologies, to which supplementary information on goods and services are tagged. The navigation services have become popular and can be installed on mobile phones to provide route information, location of points of interest and user’s current location. LBS has continued to face challenges which include “communication” process towards user reference. Location Based Service System conveys suitable information through a mobile device for effective decision making and reaction within a given time span. This research was geared at understanding the state of LBS technology acceptance and adoption by users in Nairobi Kenya. To do this a quantitative study was carried out through a questionnaire, to investigate mobile phone users’ response on awareness and use of LBS technology. Testing the growth of this technology in this region compared to predictions in previous studies using Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), it is evident that many users may be aware of GPS functionality in mobile phones but are certainly yet to fully embrace the technology as they rarely use it. This points to some underlying challenges towards this technology within this part of the World, thereby recommending for deliberate monitoring and evaluation of LBS technology for sustenance growth based on user satisfaction and acceptance for improved usability.

Services and Applications Based on Mobile User’s Location Detection and Prediction

Many wireless applications are deployed and available to customers via their mobile phones. Variety of these applications and services are based on determination of the current or future location of mobile user. Location based services (LBS) are one of the vital applications which are subdivided into two main categories: economical category and public category. Economic applications include mobile marketing, entertainment and tracking applications. Whereas, emergency cases, safety, traffic management, Muslims’ applications and public information applications are sort of public applications. The first part of the paper presents a new proposed system with developed procedure to recreate public and economic applications with high positioning accuracy and good authentication of users’ data. The developed system is created to enhance both location based services and network allocation resources within mobile network platform using either normal or GPS supported mobile equipment. The second part of the paper introduces future location prediction of mobile user dependent applications. New algorithm is developed depending on utilizing both intra-cell Movement Pattern algorithm (ICMP) [1] and hybrid uplink time Difference of Arrival and Assisted GPS technique (UTDOA_AGPS) [2]. It has been noticed that ICMP algorithm outperforms other future location prediction algorithms with high precision and within suitable time (less than 220) msec. However, UTDOA_AGPS guarantees high precession of mobile user independent of the surrounding environment. The proposed technique is used to enhance reliability and efficiency of location based services using cellular network platform.

Location Based Navigation Service Technology: Development of an Optimization Algorithm for Multivariate Contextual Cartographic Content in Location Based Navigation Service

User response or reaction to navigation applications is influenced by relevance in geographic information, in terms of cartographic context and content delivered within a definite time, providing a direct impact to outcome or consequence based on decision making and hence user reaction. Location Based Navigation Services (LBNS) have continuously advanced in cartographic visualization, making maps interpretation easy and ubiquitous to any user, as compared to pre-historic times when maps were a preserve of a few. Despite rapid growth in LBNS, there exist challenges that may be characterized as technical and non-technical challenges, among them being process of conveying geospatial information to user. LBNS system deliver appropriate information to a user through smartphone (mobile device) for effective decision making and response within a given time span. This research focuses on optimization of cartographic content for contextual information in LBNS to users, based on prevailing circumstances of various components that constitute it. The research looks into Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR), as a technical challenge centered on a non-technical issue of social being of user satisfaction, leading to decision making in LBNS, hence response and outcome. Though advanced technologically, current LBNS on information sourcing depends on user manual web pages navigation and maneuver, this can be painstaking and time consuming that it may cause unnecessary delay in information delivery, resulting to delayed information response time (DIRT). This in turn may lead to unappropriate decision making with erroneous reaction or response being taken, resulting in loss of opportunity, resources, time and even life. Optimization in LBNS is achieved by a mathematical relationship developed between user status, mobile device variables against cartographic content. The relationship is in turn applied in LBNS android application to fulfill optimization solution for user consumption.

Location correction technique based on mobile communication base station for earthquake population heat map

China has mobile phone penetration rate of over 96.2%.Mobile phone has become the largest Internet terminal for Chinese Internet users.Population geographic distribution in earthquake zones can be got based on mobile phone positioning and map matching.For reducing earthquake black-box stage,we propose a real-time collection,correction and schedule algorithm of population position data by four stream processing environments(Redis,Hbase,Kafka,and Spark Streaming)in this paper.For labeling precisely population geographic distribution on the network map,matching of population geographic coordinates and map coordinates are optimized by sample comparison based on location data of mobile communication base stations and prefecture level cities.The test result shows the proposed system is high efficient and can rapidly respond to any emerging parallel tasks during the earthquake.A high-precision heat map of affected population can be produced and published on-line within 2 min after the devastating earthquake happened.

P2P &LBS Technology-Based Mobile Police System Design

With the coverage by the mobile network and the popularization of mobile phone communication software, the traditional voice communication, short message service and even the interconnection service have gradually been replaced by mobile terminal equipment. Confronted with the ever-increasingly serous information explosion, police authorities meet with new challenges in their daily police work. This paper establishes a mobile police application system integrating office work, early warning, publicity and surveillance through careful study of the Peer to Peer and Location Based technology, striving to transform the traditional idea, break the traditional mode, expand the tradition scope so as to better exercise the social supervision function, publicize precaution information and crack down on crime.

Analysis of Geographical Distribution of Missing Children Based on the Missing Children Mobile GIS Mutual Assistance System of China

The Missing Children Mobile GIS Mutual Assistance System of China (MCMAS) is a mobile service software based on mobile GIS platform software, and it is committed to providing the most convenient and efficient system of personally mutual tracing services for missing children family and society. Relying on collaborative utilization of location-based service technology, face image intelligent recognition technology, cloud computing technology, public big data sharing technology, and mobile GIS technology, the MCMAS has achieved prominent application effects since it was deployed. At present, the MCMAS is running soundly, and it has received and released the information about 1011 missing children from May 25, 2016 to May 25, 2017. In order to explore the geographical distribution features and the influencing factors of missing children, the data of missing children are used for spatial and visual analysis by the data mining and GIS technologies. At the same time, we have built the spatial thermodynamic diagram of the big data of China missing children. By comparing provinces and cities with a higher proportion of missing children, the results showed that: 1) The high proportion of missing children spatially concentrated in the eastern part of the China. 2) The number of missing children was significantly correlated with the population density and economic status of the city. Furthermore, the paper macro-levelly presents a basic basis for rescuing the missing children from two aspects: regionally spatial characteristics and influencing factors.

A Service Discovery Approach Based on a Quantitative Similarity Measure for M-Tourism Platforms

This paper presents a localization architecture for an m-tourism services delivery platform. The aim of the system is to deliver services for nomads (e-tourists) according to their localization and according to the results given by the search engine. This engine is based on a quantitative similarity measure. The discovered services are presented via a Web Map Service. Moreover, the platform integrates an adaptation sub-system for heterogeneous environments and an e-negotiation module.

Providing Location-Aware Location Privacy Protection for Mobile Location-Based Services

Location privacy has been a serious concern for mobile users who use location-based services provided by third-party providers via mobile networks. Recently, there have been tremendous efforts on developing new anonymity or obfuscation techniques to protect location privacy of mobile users. Though effective in certain scenarios, these existing techniques usually assume that a user has a constant privacy requirement along spatial and/or temporal dimensions, which may be not true in real-life scenarios. In this paper, we introduce a new location privacy problem： Location-aware Location Privacy Protection （L2P2） problem, where users can define dynamic and diverse privacy requirements for different locations. The goal of the L2P2 problem is to find the smallest cloaking area for each location request so that diverse privacy requirements over spatial and/or temporal dimensions are satisfied for each user. In this paper, we formalize two versions of the L2P2 problem, and propose several efficient heuristics to provide such location-aware location privacy protection for mobile users. Through extensive simulations over large synthetic and real-life datasets, we confirm the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed L2P2 algorithms.

基于用户信令结合路网拟合轨迹研究

通信技术的快速发展和移动设备普及率的提高,使位置服务(LBS)在各行业中得到了广泛应用。文中提出了一种基于用户信令和路网拟合的方法,在收集用户位置信息及信令数据后,使用基于路网的轨迹拟合算法进行匹配,以获取更精确的位置信息。最后,验证了该方法能有效提高轨迹匹配精度和位置估计准确度,能为智能交通、物流等领域提供有效的数据支持。

中国失踪儿童互助Mobile GIS系统的设计与实现

针对目前失踪儿童案件频发且寻回率低这一社会问题,系统致力于为失踪儿童家庭和社会提供最为便捷高效的免费民间互助寻亲服务。依托基于位置的服务技术、人脸图像智能识别技术、云计算技术、公众大数据共享技术、移动互联网等技术的协同研究,从而构建移动GIS平台下的失踪儿童互助系统,实现了在寻找失踪儿童过程中有关公众案件的大数据登记与共享以及基于空间位置的人脸图像云端识别、移动互联网地图时序化标注、案例空间化自动追踪与高效反馈等一系列功能。目前系统运行平稳,已接收并发布了全国千余条寻人图文信息,将为亲属、政府、公众以及执法部门之间架起爱心互助的桥梁。

基于J2ME/Mobile SVG的移动位置服务

空间定位技术和移动通讯技术的迅速发展,使得向移动用户提供移动位置服务成为可能。本文提出如何运用J2ME和MobileSVG在手机等移动设备上设计移动位置服务系统,并对其关键技术进行了分析。

Combination of light-emitting diode positioning identification and time-division multiplexing scheme for indoor location-based service

A combination of light-emitting diode（LED） identification and a time-division multiplexing scheme is proposed in this Letter for indoor location-based service. With the scheme, the arrangement of white LED lamps and the structure of a data frame are designed to realize high-accuracy indoor positioning and location-based payload data transmission simultaneously. The results of the experiment demonstrate that the indoor positioning accuracy is 10 cm and 2 Mb/s data transmission with high signal quality is realized.

基于Windows Mobile的LBS系统的研究与实现

设计了一个基于Windows Mobile的LBS系统,基于对信息服务的多样性,将偏好配置引进LBS系统,可针对不同用户的偏好提供当前位置的信息服务,以为其决策提供支持.

Smart phone-based context-aware augmentative and alternative communications system

A smartphone-based context-aware augmentative and alternative communication(AAC) was applied was in order to enhance the user's experience by providing simple, adaptive, and intuitive interfaces. Various potential context-aware technologies and AAC usage scenarios were studied, and an efficient communication system was developed by combining smartphone's multimedia functions and its optimized sensor technologies. The experimental results show that context-awareness accuracy is achieved up to 97%.

NavApp:A Mobile App as a Master's Thesis

This paper illustrates a project work made by graduate students in computer engineering at University of Pavia. The project concerns a mobile indoor navigation application, called NavApp, for the mobility of pedestrians inside a building. NavApp has been deployed in a real environment, namely the library of the University of Pavia. It supports the staff in picking, storing, moving and inventory operations. Indoor navigation relies on a cloud service that fuses data of magnetic fields, Wi-Fi and beacons, called Indoor Atlas. NavApp has a sufficient positioning precision(2 meters) with the relevant advance of being able of working without any pre-deployed infrastructure, a key point in an ancient library with many million books.

EDA: an enhanced dual-active algorithm for location privacy preservation in mobile P2P networks

Various solutions have been proposed to enable mobile users to access location-based services while preserving their location privacy. Some of these solutions are based on a centralized architecture with the participation of a trustworthy third party, whereas some other approaches are based on a mobile peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture. The former approaches suffer from the scalability problem when networks grow large, while the latter have to endure either low anonymization success rates or high communication overheads. To address these issues, this paper deals with an enhanced dual-active spatial cloaking algorithm (EDA) for preserving location privacy in mobile P2P networks. The proposed EDA allows mobile users to collect and actively disseminate their location information to other users. Moreover, to deal with the challenging characteristics of mobile P2P networks, e.g., constrained network resources and user mobility, EDA enables users (1) to perform a negotiation process to minimize the number of duplicate locations to be shared so as to significantly reduce the communication overhead among users, (2) to predict user locations based on the latest available information so as to eliminate the inaccuracy problem introduced by using some out-of-date locations, and (3) to use a latest-record-highest-priority (LRHP) strategy to reduce the probability of broadcasting fewer useful locations. Extensive simulations are conducted for a range of P2P network scenarios to evaluate the performance of EDA in comparison with the existing solutions. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed EDA can improve the performance in terms of anonymity and service time with minimized communication overhead.

移动社交媒介的空间关系生产研究——以移动交友软件Soul为例

在社会化媒体语境和碎片化传播的趋势下,移动社交类媒体逐渐兴起,碎片化空间中的社会学意义和经济学意义被发现和激活。该研究从空间生产理论和空间规训理论切入,对移动交友软件Soul的软件功能、界面设计、运行规则和互动过程进行参与式观察与解读。研究发现:基于移动社交媒介的交友过程通过激活、延展、转化/结束社交关系这三个步骤实现;社交关系的经营和管理依赖于基于位置的服务(Location based services, LBS)技术对于空间可见性的生产;空间关系的生产过程也是资本链条嵌入的过程,这种空间的资本占有逐渐形成了普遍的商业逻辑。

基于位置的服务:架构与进展

随着无线通信技术和智能移动终端的快速发展,基于位置的服务(Location-based Services,LBS)在军事、交通、物流等诸多领域得到了广泛应用,它能够根据移动对象的位置信息提供个性化服务.目前,主流的定位技术大致可分为卫星定位、基于网络基础设施的定位和感知定位三类.LBS使用有效的移动对象时空索引技术来高效处理服务查询请求,并且采用不同隐私保护策略以有效保护用户的位置隐私.近年来,由于应用场景趋于复杂、多定位技术协同、数据规模迅速扩大等因素影响,室内LBS、不确定位置信息管理、新型隐私保护技术、云计算平台下的LBS、社会化LBS等也越来越重要.文中介绍了LBS系统的架构及其各个组成部分的关键技术,回顾了近几年来LBS技术的研究进展,探讨了未来的研究方向.

位置大数据的价值提取与协同挖掘方法

随着位置服务和车联网应用的不断普及,由地理数据、车辆轨迹和应用记录等所构成的位置大数据已成为当前用来感知人类社群活动规律、分析地理国情和构建智慧城市的重要战略性资源,是大数据科学研究极其重要的一部分.与传统小样统计不同,大规模位置数据存在明显的混杂性、复杂性和稀疏性,需要对其进行价值提取和协同挖掘,才能获得更为准确的移动行为模式和区域局部特征,从而还原和生成满足关联应用分析的整体数据模型.因此,着重从以下3个方面系统综述了针对位置大数据的分析方法,包括:(1)针对数据混杂性,如何先从局部提取出移动对象的二阶行为模式和区域交通动力学特征;(2)针对数据复杂性,如何从时间和空间尺度上分别对位置复杂网络进行降维分析,从而建立有关社群整体移动性的学习和推测方法;(3)针对数据的稀疏性,如何通过协同过滤、概率图分析等方法构建位置大数据全局模型.最后,从软件工程角度提出了位置大数据分析的整体框架.在这一框架下,位置数据将不仅被用来进行交通问题的分析,还能够提升人们对更为广泛的人类社会经济活动和自然环境的认识,从而体现位置大数据的真正价值.

移动云计算研究进展与趋势

随着移动互联网的飞速发展,移动终端的应用已经渗透到人们工作生活的方方面面.为了满足日益复杂的移动应用对移动终端的电池容量、计算能力、存储容量以及安全性提出的更高要求,移动云计算作为移动互联网和云计算结合的产物,近年来得到了快速发展,也催生出了众多新的信息服务和应用模式,得到了学术界和工业界的广泛关注.移动云计算继承了云计算的应用动态部署、资源可扩展、多用户共享以及多服务整合等优势,为解决移动终端资源受限问题提供了一种有效方式,但在用户动态移动、终端电量有限、非法访问及隐私泄漏等安全威胁日益严重的情况下,仍然面临诸多研究挑战.文中围绕这些挑战,介绍了计算迁移、基于移动云的位置服务、移动终端节能、数据安全与隐私保护等移动云计算技术的研究现状,进一步对移动云存储、微云、群智服务和移动云游戏等移动云计算的典型应用进行了深入分析,并从移动云计算功能增强、服务质量保障和安全可用性等3个方面,展望了移动云计算未来的发展趋势和研究方向.