Abstract:
Location-awareness significantly enhances user experience of mobile applications. Knowing who the user is and where he is allows us to provide useful information at the right time. But how can we find user location? GPS and Wifi are far from perfect. Can we do better? How can we utilise Bluetooth Low Energy beacons to detect user location? Let's explore a new emerging technology that may change our approach to writing context-aware mobile applications.

About the speaker:
Monika is a software engineer on the Google Offers team based in London. She focuses on infrastructure and development of backend services. Prior to joining Google in 2011, she worked for AOL and IBM as an software engineer.
Monika earned a masters's degree in computer science from the University of Science and Technology AGH in Krakow where she graduated with honors.

The talk is a part of a lecture in the Pervasive Computing course, and is open for everybody.