Headio: Zero-configured heading acquisition for indoor mobile devices through multimodal context sensing

UbiComp 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 33-42

  Sun, Zheng ^a   Pan, Shijia ^a   Su, Yu Chi ^b   Zhang, Pei ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ceiling pictures; Digital compass; Geolocation; Heading; Indoor locationing; Indoor navigation; Mobile sensing; Orientation; Perspective transformation; Task scheduling

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL COMPASS; GEOLOCATIONS; HEADING; IN-DOOR NAVIGATIONS; INDOOR LOCATIONING; MOBILE SENSING; PERSPECTIVE TRANSFORMATION; TASK-SCHEDULING;

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ERRORS; GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETOMETERS; SENSORS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

MOBILE DEVICES;

EID: 84885213969     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2493432.2493434     Document Type: Conference Paper

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