TY - CPAPER KW - Androids KW - Batteries KW - battery consumption reduction KW - collaborative sensing KW - collaborative sensing platform KW - CoSP KW - Global Positioning System KW - groupware KW - Humanoid robots KW - mobile applications KW - Mobile Collaboration KW - mobile computing KW - Sensors KW - Smart phones KW - smartphone-based sensing KW - smartphones KW - user behavioural patterns KW - user modelling AU - Esunly Medina AU - David López AU - Dolors Royo AU - Roc Meseguer AU - Sergio Ochoa AB - Smartphones are powerful sensing devices that can help us capture not only information from the environment, but also the users’ activities. Based on that information, mobile systems can identify the user’s behavioural patterns and adjust their services to better fit his needs. This paper presents a software infrastructure, named Collaborative Sensing Platform (CoSP), which facilitates the automatic collection and collaborative distribution of the data gathered from smartphone sensors. CoSP also helps to save energy during the sensing and data sharing processes. This platform was evaluated empirically in a laboratory experiment. The preliminary results indicate that this infrastructure is useful not only for data gathering and sharing, but also for reducing the battery consumption involved in the sensing tasks. DO - 10.1109/CSCWD.2015.7230989 N2 - Smartphones are powerful sensing devices that can help us capture not only information from the environment, but also the users’ activities. Based on that information, mobile systems can identify the user’s behavioural patterns and adjust their services to better fit his needs. This paper presents a software infrastructure, named Collaborative Sensing Platform (CoSP), which facilitates the automatic collection and collaborative distribution of the data gathered from smartphone sensors. CoSP also helps to save energy during the sensing and data sharing processes. This platform was evaluated empirically in a laboratory experiment. The preliminary results indicate that this infrastructure is useful not only for data gathering and sharing, but also for reducing the battery consumption involved in the sensing tasks. PB - IEEE PY - 2015 TI - CoSP: A Collaborative Sensing Platform for mobile applications ER -