PhoneAdapter

Project Overview

Recent advances in mobile technology lead to increasing deployment of pervasive infrastructures that support “anywhere, anytime computing”. Various handheld smart devices equipped with different sensing units can be customized by context-aware adaptive applications. These applications, typically driven by user-configured rules, can automatically adapt to their environmental changes to facilitate users’ daily lives. For example, one application might be able to assist users in switching on the silent mode for their smart phones when they arrive at office, and switching back to the ring mode after they return home. To achieve that, users only need to configure two rules on their phones:

Rule 1: Enable the silent mode when the bluetooth device "OFFICE_PC" is detected.
Rule 2: Enable the ring mode when GPS reports current location is "HOME".

This project aim to developing a rule-based context-aware pervasive application for research purpose. This research project is a joint effort of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Department of Computer Science and Technology, at The Univeristy of Science and Technology, and Nanjing University. Researchers involved: Prof. S. C. Cheung, Prof. Chang Xu, Yepang Liu.

This project now is at a very initial stage. We have released ver 0.2, which supports limited features. We invite researchers or practitioners who are interested to join and develop together. For any enquiry about this project, kindly contact Yepang Liu via email andrewust A/T cse D/O/T ust D/O/T hk.

Obtain PhoneAdapter

PhoneAdapter Ver 0.2 is available under the GNU General Public License (GPLv3). It is free software WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. You are welcome to modify or redistribute it under the terms of the GPL.

PhoneAdapter runs on Android 2.3. We have tested it on an HTC Desire S510e device. If you encounter any bug, please report directly to us (we will consider using an issue tracking system if necessary).

Currrent Limitations

It only supports rules expressed in propositional logic with arithmetic comparision operators. Users should specify rules in disjunctive normal form (DNF).
It only supports enabling/disabling airplane mode, adjusting ring volume, and enabling/disabling vibration at this stage. You are welcome to add new functionalities.

Related Projects

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This page is maintained by Yepang Liu. Last update on April 26, 2013.