Central Concerns and Questions

One of the goals of this cluster is to look at new and innovative applications that can assist or change the way businesses work. In particular, we focus on mobile and pervasive applications.

Emerging Ideas and Initiatives

In this project, we are currently looking at a variety of scenarios. These include mobile payment techniques, novel and emerging mobile applications, usability of mobile devices, traffic pattern analysis, and management of mobile information.

Selected Publications

[1] Rajesh Krishna Balan, Narayan Ramasubbu, Komsit Prakobphol, Nicolas Christin, and Jason Hong, mFerio: The Design and Evaluation of a Peer-to-Peer Mobile Payment System. Proceedings of the The 7th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys), Kraków, Poland., June 2009

[2] J. P. Sousa, R. K. Balan, V. Poladian, D. Garlan, M. Satyanarayanan. User Guidance Of Resource-Adaptive Systems. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT), Porto, Portugal, July, 2008.

[3] R. K. Balan, N. Ramasubbu. pFerio: Alleviating the Point-of-Sale Confusion. Working Paper.

[4] R. K. Balan, D. Gergle, M. Satyanarayanan, J. Herbsleb. Simplifying Cyber Foraging for Mobile Devices. Proceedings of the 5th USENIX International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 2007.

[5] R. K. Balan, N. Ramasubbu. G. Tayi. The Case for the Digital Wallet. Working Paper.

Projects, Presentations and Posters

1. Rajesh Krishna Balan, Narayan Ramasubbu, Nicolas Christin, Jason Hong, Anand Sujith Henry, Bhatt Dev S/O Digantrai, Dexter Huang Yaolin, Sridhar Venkataraman, Vidit Drolia, Xiao Sa, Komsit Prakobphol. Digital Wallet
2. Rajesh Krishna Balan, Jason Woodard, Cheng Shih-Fen, Lee Wee Leong, Narayan Ramasubbu, Darshan Santani, Jacek J. Szymczyk, Ankit Guglani. Real-Time Traffic Analysis and Management
3. D. Santani, R. K. Balan, C. J. Woodard. Understanding and Improving a GPS-Based Taxi System. Poster presented at the 6th USENIX International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), Breckenridge, Colorado, June 2008.

Demo Applications

1. Project Hawaii Relay Service, Microsoft Research
2. Adaptive Display Power Management for Mobile Games, Mobisys2011

External Collaborations and Industry Linkages

1. CyLab Japan
2. HCI Institute, Carnegie Mellon University