Smart Sensing and Context

This year marks the third edition of EuroSSC. It builds on the success of the past editions, held in Enschede, The Netherlands in 2006, and in Kendal, UK in 2007. On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we would like to welcome you to EuroSSC 2008, in Zurich, Switerland. This volume contains the invited papers and technical peer-reviewed papers selected for presentation at the conference. At EuroSSC we aim to explore technologies, algorithms, architectures, p- tocols, and user aspects underlying context-aware smart surroundings, coop- ating intelligent objects, and their applications. Since its inception, EuroSSC has taken a complementary technology-driven and user-driven view to discuss these aspects. It is one of the particularities of EuroSSC, and the 2008 edition made no exception. In addition we emphasized aspects related to quality of c- text and context-aware feedback by actuator systems. This re?ects the growing importance that context processing in uncertain environments and sensor and actuator networks take in ambient intelligence environments. We received 70 paper submissions. They originate from 30 countries of - rope, the Middle East and Africa (66%), Asia (22%), North America (9%), and South America (3%). These numbers re?ect the European origins of EuroSSC, but also show that EuroSSC is a recognized and attractive platform for parti- pants from all regions of the world.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context, EuroSSC 2008, held in Zurich, Switzerland, October 29-31, 2008.

The 17 revised full papers presented together with one invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on smart objects, spatial and human context inference, context processing and quality of context, as well as context-aware interaction and case studies.

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Invited Paper.- Transforming Daily Life Objects into Tactile Interfaces.- Smart Objects.- Using a Movable RFID Antenna to Automatically Determine the Position and Orientation of Objects on a Tabletop.- Vision-Based Detection of Mobile Smart Objects.- Design and Evaluation of a Sound Based Water Flow Measurement System.- Spatial and Human Context Inference.- Gaussian Process Person Identifier Based on Simple Floor Sensors.- GammaSense: Infrastructureless Positioning Using Background Radioactivity.- People Identification Using Gait Via Floor Pressure Sensing and Analysis.- Location-Free Object Tracking on Graph Structures.- Context Processing and Quality of Context.- Reasoning about Context in Uncertain Pervasive Computing Environments.- Contextual Ranking of Database Querying Results: A Statistical Approach.- On the Evaluation of Quality of Context.- A Game-Theoretic Approach to Co-operative Context-Aware Driving with Partially Random Behavior.- Mobile Context-Addressable Messaging with DL-Lite Domain Model.- Context-Aware Interaction and Case Studies.- A Wearable, Conductive Textile Based User Interface for Hospital Ward Rounds Document Access.- Exploring the Design of Pay-Per-Use Objects in the Construction Domain.- Synthesizing Context for a Sports Domain on a Mobile Device.- Using Aesthetic and Empathetic Expressions to Motivate Desirable Lifestyle.- Raising Awareness about Space via Vibro-Tactile Notifications.