With the rapid growth of mobile technologies, mobile devices have become very popular and have reached a very high spread. Consequently, mobile games have started gaining an increasing attention from researchers and ...

We propose mobile sensemaking as a collaborative mechanism to explore and understand information in highly mobile and fluid situations, where people engage in multiple parallel, rapid and ad-hoc interactions, rather than ...

Mobile devices are increasingly used to perform complex tasks due to technological advances in mobile devices. However, there are issues that limit their use in processes that demand a lot of resources due to their processing ...

Computing technology is currently adopted in emerging countries. Especially mobile phones and smart phones become widely used - with a much higher penetration than traditional computers. In our work we investigate how ...

The ever-growing adoption of smart mobile devices is a worldwide phenomenon that positions smartphones and tablets as primary devices, i.e., that people mostly use. In addition to this, the computing capabilities of such ...

Cloud Computing has gained more prominence in organizations in the last years. Meanwhile, ubiquity and mobility are two main features that have emerged from the popularization of mobile devices. Therefore, the combination ...

Mobile code offloading is a relatively well known proposal for enhancing the capabilities of mobile platforms by migrating resource intensive tasks to resource rich surrogates hosted in the cloud. Yet, most of the research ...