UbiComp 2007: Ubiquitous Computing

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2007. It covers all current issues in ubiquitous, pervasive and handheld computing systems and their applications, including tools and techniques for designing, implementing, and evaluating ubiquitous computing systems; mobile, wireless, and ad hoc networking infrastructures for ubiquitous computing; privacy, security, and trust in ubiquitous and pervasive systems.

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A Statistical Reasoning System for Medication Prompting.- Tracking Free-Weight Exercises.- Playful Tray: Adopting Ubicomp and Persuasive Techniques into Play-Based Occupational Therapy for Reducing Poor Eating Behavior in Young Children.- Privacy Enhancing Technologies for RFID in Retail- An Empirical Investigation.- Ninja: Non Identity Based, Privacy Preserving Authentication for Ubiquitous Environments.- Field Deployment of IMBuddy: A Study of Privacy Control and Feedback Mechanisms for Contextual IM.- Yours, Mine and Ours? Sharing and Use of Technology in Domestic Environments.- How Smart Homes Learn: The Evolution of the Networked Home and Household.- "My Roomba Is Rambo": Intimate Home Appliances.- Symbolic Object Localization Through Active Sampling of Acceleration and Sound Signatures.- An Exploration of Location Error Estimation.- Security by Spatial Reference: Using Relative Positioning to Authenticate Devices for Spontaneous Interaction.- Users and Batteries: Interactions and Adaptive Energy Management in Mobile Systems.- An Empirical Study of the Potential for Context-Aware Power Management.- Amigo: Proximity-Based Authentication of Mobile Devices.- At the Flick of a Switch: Detecting and Classifying Unique Electrical Events on the Residential Power Line (Nominated for the Best Paper Award).- An 'Object-Use Fingerprint': The Use of Electronic Sensors for Human Identification.- Key Generation Based on Acceleration Data of Shaking Processes.- "Merolyn the Phone": A Study of Bluetooth Naming Practices (Nominated for the Best Paper Award).- Why It's Worth the Hassle: The Value of In-Situ Studies When Designing Ubicomp.- Locating Family Values: A Field Trial of the Whereabouts Clock.- Safeguarding Location Privacy in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks.- Haggle: Seamless Networking for Mobile Applications.- Exploiting Social Interactions in Mobile Systems.- Rapidly Exploring Application Design Through Speed Dating.- Addressing Mobile Phone Diversity in Ubicomp Experience Development.- Sensor Networks or Smart Artifacts? An Exploration of Organizational Issues of an Industrial Health and Safety Monitoring System.- A Long-Term Evaluation of Sensing Modalities for Activity Recognition.- Cooperative Augmentation of Smart Objects with Projector-Camera Systems.