Pervasive Computing: 4th International Conference, PERVASIVE 2006, Dublin, Ireland, May 7-10, 2006. Proceedings

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing, PERVASIVE 2006, held in Dublin, Ireland, in May 2006.

The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 178 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on activity recognition, location, sensors, sensor processing and platforms, toolkits and gaming, security, pointing, interaction and displays, and smart homes, and beyond.

Author(s): Jonathan Lester, Tanzeem Choudhury, Gaetano Borriello (auth.), Kenneth P. Fishkin, Bernt Schiele, Paddy Nixon, Aaron Quigley (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3968 : Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2006

Language: English
Pages: 404
Tags: Computer Communication Networks; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems; Operating Systems; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Information Storage and Retrieval; Computers and Society

Front Matter....Pages -
A Practical Approach to Recognizing Physical Activities....Pages 1-16
Building Reliable Activity Models Using Hierarchical Shrinkage and Mined Ontology....Pages 17-32
“Need to Know”: Examining Information Need in Location Discourse....Pages 33-49
Collaborative Localization: Enhancing WiFi-Based Position Estimation with Neighborhood Links in Clusters....Pages 50-66
Risks of Using AP Locations Discovered Through War Driving....Pages 67-82
Declarative Support for Sensor Data Cleaning....Pages 83-100
Detecting and Interpreting Muscle Activity with Wearable Force Sensors....Pages 101-116
The Design of a Portable Kit of Wireless Sensors for Naturalistic Data Collection....Pages 117-134
The Smart Tachograph – Individual Accounting of Traffic Costs and Its Implications....Pages 135-152
Domino: Exploring Mobile Collaborative Software Adaptation....Pages 153-168
Keep Your Eyes on the Road and Your Finger on the Trigger – Designing for Mixed Focus of Attention in a Mobile Game for Brief Encounters....Pages 169-186
Unobtrusive Multimodal Biometrics for Ensuring Privacy and Information Security with Personal Devices....Pages 187-201
LoKey: Leveraging the SMS Network in Decentralized, End-to-End Trust Establishment....Pages 202-219
Scalability in a Secure Distributed Proof System....Pages 220-237
Secure Mobile Computing Via Public Terminals....Pages 238-253
iCAP: Interactive Prototyping of Context-Aware Applications....Pages 254-271
iCam: Precise at-a-Distance Interaction in the Physical Environment....Pages 272-287
Gesture Signature for Ambient Intelligence Applications: A Feasibility Study....Pages 288-304
Exploring the Effects of Target Location Size and Position System Accuracy on Location Based Applications....Pages 305-320
Displays in the Wild: Understanding the Dynamics and Evolution of a Display Ecology....Pages 321-336
Modeling Human Behavior from Simple Sensors in the Home....Pages 337-348
Using a Live-In Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing Research....Pages 349-365
The Diet-Aware Dining Table: Observing Dietary Behaviors over a Tabletop Surface....Pages 366-382
Lessons for the Future: Experiences with the Installation and Use of Today’s Domestic Sensors and Technologies....Pages 383-399
Back Matter....Pages -