Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

9-2016

Abstract

We propose PADA, a new power evaluation tool to measure and optimize power use of mobile sensing applications. Our motivational study with 53 professional developers shows they face huge challenges in meeting power requirements. The key challenges are from the significant time and effort for repetitive power measurements since the power use of sensing applications needs to be evaluated under various real-world usage scenarios and sensing parameters. PADA enables developers to obtain enriched power information under diverse usage scenarios in development environments without deploying and testing applications on real phones in real-life situations. We conducted two user studies with 19 developers to evaluate the usability of PADA. We show that developers benefit from using PADA in the implementation and power tuning of mobile sensing applications.

Keywords

Mobile sensing applications, Power-aware development

Discipline

Computer Sciences | Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

UbiComp 2016: Proceedings of the ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, September 12-16, Heidelberg, Germany

First Page

946

Last Page

957

ISBN

9781450344616

Identifier

10.1145/2971648.2971676

Publisher

ACM

City or Country

New York

Copyright Owner and License

Publisher

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/2971648.2971676

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