Pervasive Computing

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 here 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.

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A Practical Approach to Recognizing Physical Activities.- Building Reliable Activity Models Using Hierarchical Shrinkage and Mined Ontology.- "Need to Know": Examining Information Need in Location Discourse.- Collaborative Localization: Enhancing WiFi-Based Position Estimation with Neighborhood Links in Clusters.- Risks of Using AP Locations Discovered Through War Driving.- Declarative Support for Sensor Data Cleaning.- Detecting and Interpreting Muscle Activity with Wearable Force Sensors.- The Design of a Portable Kit of Wireless Sensors for Naturalistic Data Collection.- The Smart Tachograph - Individual Accounting of Traffic Costs and Its Implications.- Domino: Exploring Mobile Collaborative Software Adaptation.- 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.- Unobtrusive Multimodal Biometrics for Ensuring Privacy and Information Security with Personal Devices.- LoKey: Leveraging the SMS Network in Decentralized, End-to-End Trust Establishment.- Scalability in a Secure Distributed Proof System.- Secure Mobile Computing Via Public Terminals.- iCAP: Interactive Prototyping of Context-Aware Applications.- iCam: Precise at-a-Distance Interaction in the Physical Environment.- Gesture Signature for Ambient Intelligence Applications: A Feasibility Study.- Exploring the Effects of Target Location Size and Position System Accuracy on Location Based Applications.- Displays in the Wild: Understanding the Dynamics and Evolution of a Display Ecology.- Modeling Human Behavior from Simple Sensors in the Home.- Using a Live-In Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing Research.- The Diet-Aware Dining Table: Observing Dietary Behaviors over a Tabletop Surface.- Lessons for the Future: Experiences with the Installation and Use of Today's Domestic Sensors and Technologies.