OnCampus: A Mobile Personal Assistant for College Students

Abstract

Recent years have witnessed tremendous progress in mobile devices and wireless networks. Such technologies have become ubiquitous on college campuses. Meanwhile, mobile social networking software is attracting a lot of interest from college students. To explore the potential of recent technologies in higher education, this paper presents our ongoing work on design and implementation of a mobile personal assistant system for college students, namely OnCampus. This system is aimed to provide college students with a series of innovative mobile services that will be helpful especially in on- campus study. The system will also serve as a tool for college students, which improves the efficiency of campus life by making use of various campus resources.