Analytic tools for mobile apps

A list of analytic tools for mobile apps:

• Google Analytics, iPhone and Android
• Motally iPhone, Android, and Blackberry 
• Flurry iPhone, Android,  Blackberry, and Java ME
• GetJar  iPhone, Android,  Blackberry, and Java ME
• Distimo
• mopapp

Netduino with .NET micro framework

Netduino is an open source electronics platform with Atmel 32 bit microcontroller that uses  the .NET Micro Framework.

UbiComp 2010 paper selection

The UbiComp 2010 conference included very interesting papers. Below I listed my paper collection. However, many other interesting papers were presented in the conference. For more information please check the conference program.

• The Calendar as a Sensor: Analysis and Improvement Using Data Fusion with Social Networks and Location
  Tom Lovett, Eamonn O'Neill, James Irwin, David Pollington
• Toolkit to Support Intelligibility in Context-Aware Applications
  Brian Y. Lim, Anind K. Dey
• Identifying the Activities Supported by Locations with Community-Authored Content
  David Dearman, Khai N. Truong
• VoiceYourView: Collecting Real-time Feedback on the Design of Public Spaces
  Jon Whittle, Will Simm, Marie-Angela Ferrario, Kate Frankova, Laurence Garton, Andrée Woodcock, Baseerit Nasa, Jane Binner, Aom Ariyatum
• Modeling People's Place Naming Preferences in Location Sharing
  Jialiu Lin, Guang Xiang, Jason I. Hong, Norman Sadeh
• Tasking Networked CCTV Cameras and Mobile Phones to Identify and Localize Multiple People
  Thiago Teixeira, Deokwoo Jung, Andreas Savvides
• MoviPill: Improving medication compliance for elders using a mobile persuasive social game
  Rodrigo de Oliveira, Mauro Cherubini, Nuria Oliver
• Ambient Influence: Can Twinkly Lights Lure and Abstract Representations Trigger Behavioral Change?
  Yvonne Rogers, William R. Hazlewood, Paul Marshall, Nick Dalton, Susanna Hertrich
• What Do You Bring To the Table? Investigations of a Collaborative Workspace
  Trevor Pering, Kent Lyons, Roy Want, Mary Murphy-Hoye, Mark Baloga, Paul Noll, Joe Branc, Nicolas De Benoist
• ElectriSense: Single-Point Sensing Using EMI for Electrical Event Detection and Classification in the Home
  Sidhant Gupta, Matt S. Reynolds, Shwetak N. Patel
• SNUPI: Sensor Nodes Utilizing Powerline Infrastructure
  Gabe Cohn, Erich Stuntebeck, Jagdish Pandey, Brian Otis, Gregory D. Abowd, Shwetak N. Patel
• Augmenting On-Screen Instructions with Micro-Projected Guides: When it Works, and When it Fails
  Stephanie Rosenthal, Shaun K. Kane, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Daniel Avrahami
• EmotionSense: A Mobile Phones based Adaptive Platform for Experimental Social Psychology Research
  Kiran K. Rachuri, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo, Peter J. Rentfrow, Chris Longworth, Andrius Aucinas
• TCBI: The Design and Evaluation of a Task-Centered Battery Interface
  Khai Truong, Julie Kientz, Timothy Sohn, Alyssa Rosenzweig, Amanda Fonville, Tim Smith
• Sketching with Strangers - In the Wild Study of Ad-hoc Social Communication by Drawing
  Panu Kerman, Arto Puikkonen, Antti Virolainen, Pertti Huuskonen, Jonna Häkkilä

MobileHCI 2010 paper selection

Here is my MobileHCI 2010 paper selection. If you have a selection please add the link as a comment to this post:

User-defined gestures for connecting mobile phones, public displays, and tabletops
Kray, C., Nesbitt, D., Dawson, J., and Rohs, M. 2010.

Amarino: a toolkit for the rapid prototyping of mobile ubiquitous computing
Kaufmann, B. and Buechley, L. 2010.

Addressing mobile information overload in the universal inbox through lenses
Sohn, T., Setlur, V., Mori, K., Kaye, J., Horii, H., Battestini, A., Ballagas, R., Paretti, C., and Spasojevic, M. 2010.

RearType: text entry using keys on the back of a device
Scott, J., Izadi, S., Rezai, L. S., Ruszkowski, D., Bi, X., and Balakrishnan, R. 2010.

Novel interfaces for digital cameras and camera phones
McAdam, C., Pinkerton, C., and Brewster, S. A. 2010.

Towards using embedded magnetic field sensor for around mobile device 3D interactio
Ketabdar, H., Roshandel, M., and Yüksel, K. A. 2010.

Semi-automatic zooming for mobile map navigation
Kratz, S., Brodien, I., and Rohs, M. 2010.

Mobile interaction with static and dynamic NFC-based displays
Hardy, R., Rukzio, E., Holleis, P., and Wagner, M. 2010.

open source electronics

A interesting website includes opens source physical computing devices:
http://leaflabs.com/

Let the beauty of we love be what we do

A Hundred Ways to Pray
Mowlānā Jalāluddīn Rūmī

Today we're wasted with the spirit. Drunk like every day.
Lock up your angst and musings. There is music you must play.
There are a hundred ways to make prostrations in that Mosque
Where a Beloved's beauty is your Mecca. Turn and pray.

امروز چو هر روز خرابیم خراب
مگشا در اندیشه و برگیر رباب
صدگونه نماز است و رکوعست و سجود
آنرا که جمال دوست باشد محراب

Transliteration:

emrōz chō har rōz, kharāb-ēm kharāb
ma-gshā dar andēsha-o bar gīr rabāb
Sad gōna namāz-ast-o rukū`-ast-o sujūd
ān-rā ke jamāl-é dōst bāsh-ad mihrāb


And just by way of comparison, here's Coleman Barks' "translation" of this quatrain:

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Cheer for your favorite team during World Cup 2010

World Cupinion, by University of Duisburg-Essen and Technische Universität Berlin, is an application which lets soccer fans share their reaction about different moments and events of a soccer match during Soccer World Cup 2010.
Through an interface users can partake in supporting their favorite team and share their opinions with other fans.Also the opinions are pushed to Facebook and Twiitter.
The application is available for Android phones and iPhone as well the PC.