Overview

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2003, held in Seattle, WA, USA in Ocotber 2003.The 16 revised full papers and 11 technical note papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 153 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on location and space, modeling and inference, context awareness, new devices and technologies, domestic environments and healthcare, social aspects and privacy, and new interfaces.

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Author:   Anind K. Dey ,  Albrecht Schmidt ,  Joseph F. McCarthy
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   2003 ed.
Volume:   2864
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.210kg
ISBN:  

9783540203018

ISBN 10:   354020301
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   29 September 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Location and Space.- Building World Models by Ray-Tracing within Ceiling-Mounted Positioning Systems.- On a Location Model for Fine-Grained Geocast.- RightSPOT: A Novel Sense of Location for a Smart Personal Object.- User-Friendly Surveying Techniques for Location-Aware Systems.- Modeling and Inference.- Sto(ry)chastics: A Bayesian Network Architecture for User Modeling and Computational Storytelling for Interactive Spaces.- Inferring High-Level Behavior from Low-Level Sensors.- Activity Zones for Context-Aware Computing.- Context Awareness.- Context-Aware User Authentication - Supporting Proximity-Based Login in Pervasive Computing.- Secure Spontaneous Device Association.- AwareCon: Situation Aware Context Communication.- liquid: Context-Aware Distributed Queries.- Is Context-Aware Computing Taking Control away from the User? Three Levels of Interactivity Examined.- New Devices and Technologies.- Tools for Studying Behavior and Technology in Natural Settings.- Very Low-Cost Sensing and Communication Using Bidirectional LEDs.- SPECs: Another Approach to Human Context and Activity Sensing Research, Using Tiny Peer-to-Peer Wireless Computers.- A 2-Way Laser-Assisted Selection Scheme for Handhelds in a Physical Environment.- Domestic Environments and Healthcare.- Finding a Place for UbiComp in the Home.- New Perspectives on Ubiquitous Computing from Ethnographic Study of Elders with Cognitive Decline.- Practical Considerations of Context for Context Based Systems: An Example from an Ethnographic Case Study of a Man Diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer's Disease.- Playing with the Bits User-Configuration of Ubiquitous Domestic Environments.- Social Aspect and Privacy.- IntelliBadgeTM: Towards Providing Location-Aware Value-Added Services at Academic Conferences.- UbiTable: Impromptu Face-to-Face Collaboration on Horizontal Interactive Surfaces.- Social Network Computing.- The Design of a Context-Aware Home Media Space for Balancing Privacy and Awareness.- New Interfaces.- Context-Aware Computing with Sound.- An Architecture and Framework for Steerable Interface Systems.- Evaluation of Visual Notification Cues for Ubiquitous Computing.

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