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Sensors 2012, 12, 12588-12605; doi:10.3390/s120912588 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Artic le Comprehensive Context Recognizer Based on Multimodal Sensors in a Smartphone Manhyung Han, La The Vinh, Young-Koo Lee and Sungyoung Lee * Department of Computer Engineering, Kyung Hee University (Global Campus), 1 Seocheon-dong, Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do 446-701, Korea; E-Mails: smiley@oslab.khu.ac.kr (M.H.); vinhlt@oslab.khu.ac.kr (L.T.V.); yklee@khu.ac.kr (Y.-K.L.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: sylee@oslab.khu.ac.kr; Tel.: +82-31-201-2514; Fax: +82-31-202-2520. Received: 24 July 2012; in revised form: 10 September 2012 / Accepted: 13 September 2012 / Published: 17 September 2012 Abstract: Recent developments in smartphones have increased the processing capabilities and equipped these devices with a number of built-in multimodal sensors, including accelerometers, gyroscopes, GPS interfaces, Wi-Fi access, and proximity sensors. Despite the fact that numerous studies have investigated the development of user-context aware applications using smartphones, these applications are currently only able to recognize simple contexts using a single type of sensor. Therefore, in this work, we introduce a comprehensive approach for context aware applications that utilizes the multimodal sensors in smartphones. The proposed system is not only able to recognize different kinds