Pervasive Computing

1. Front Matter

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2. Practices with Smartphones

   1. Planning, Apps, and the High-End Smartphone: Exploring the Landscape of Modern Cross-Device Reaccess

      • Elizabeth Bales, Timothy Sohn, Vidya Setlur

      Pages 1-18

   2. Understanding Human-Smartphone Concerns: A Study of Battery Life

      • Denzil Ferreira, Anind K. Dey, Vassilis Kostakos

      Pages 19-33

3. Sensing at Home, Sensing at Work

   1. Monitoring Residential Noise for Prospective Home Owners and Renters

      • Thomas Zimmerman, Christine Robson

      Pages 34-49

   2. A Longitudinal Study of Pressure Sensing to Infer Real-World Water Usage Events in the Home

      • Jon Froehlich, Eric Larson, Elliot Saba, Tim Campbell, Les Atlas, James Fogarty et al.

      Pages 50-69

   3. Exploring the Design Space for Situated Glyphs to Support Dynamic Work Environments

      • Fahim Kawsar, Jo Vermeulen, Kevin Smith, Kris Luyten, Gerd Kortuem

      Pages 70-78

4. Predicting the Future

   1. Learning Time-Based Presence Probabilities

      • John Krumm, A. J. Bernheim Brush

      Pages 79-96

   2. n-Gram Geo-trace Modeling

      • Senaka Buthpitiya, Ying Zhang, Anind K. Dey, Martin Griss

      Pages 97-114

5. Location Sensing

   1. Autonomous Construction of a WiFi Access Point Map Using Multidimensional Scaling

      • Jahyoung Koo, Hojung Cha

      Pages 115-132

   2. Identifying Important Places in People’s Lives from Cellular Network Data

      • Sibren Isaacman, Richard Becker, Ramón Cáceres, Stephen Kobourov, Margaret Martonosi, James Rowland et al.

      Pages 133-151

   3. NextPlace: A Spatio-temporal Prediction Framework for Pervasive Systems

      • Salvatore Scellato, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo, Vito Latora, Andrew T. Campbell

      Pages 152-169

6. Augmenting Mobile Phone Use

   1. Using Decision-Theoretic Experience Sampling to Build Personalized Mobile Phone Interruption Models

      • Stephanie Rosenthal, Anind K. Dey, Manuela Veloso

      Pages 170-187

   2. SpeakerSense: Energy Efficient Unobtrusive Speaker Identification on Mobile Phones

      • Hong Lu, A. J. Bernheim Brush, Bodhi Priyantha, Amy K. Karlson, Jie Liu

      Pages 188-205

   3. Text Text Revolution: A Game That Improves Text Entry on Mobile Touchscreen Keyboards

      • Dmitry Rudchenko, Tim Paek, Eric Badger

      Pages 206-213

7. Pervasive Computing in the Public Arena

   1. Pervasive Sensing to Model Political Opinions in Face-to-Face Networks

      • Anmol Madan, Katayoun Farrahi, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Alex (Sandy) Pentland

      Pages 214-231

   2. Lessons from Touring a Location-Based Experience

      • Leif Oppermann, Martin Flintham, Stuart Reeves, Steve Benford, Chris Greenhalgh, Joe Marshall et al.

      Pages 232-249

8. Public Displays

   1. Hybrid Prototyping by Using Virtual and Miniature Simulation for Designing Spatial Interactive Information Systems

      • Yasuto Nakanishi, Koji Sekiguchi, Takuro Ohmori, Soh kitahara, Daisuke Akatsuka

      Pages 250-257

   2. Designing Shared Public Display Networks – Implications from Today’s Paper-Based Notice Areas

      • Florian Alt, Nemanja Memarovic, Ivan Elhart, Dominik Bial, Albrecht Schmidt, Marc Langheinrich et al.

      Pages 258-275

9. Hands on with Sensing

   1. Recognizing the Use of Portable Electrical Devices with Hand-Worn Magnetic Sensors

      • Takuya Maekawa, Yasue Kishino, Yasushi Sakurai, Takayuki Suyama

      Pages 276-293

   2. 3D Gesture Recognition: An Evaluation of User and System Performance

      • Michael Wright, Chun-Jung Lin, Eamonn O’Neill, Darren Cosker, Peter Johnson

      Pages 294-313

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Pervasive 2011, held in San Francisco, USA, in June 2011. The 19 revised full papers and three short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. The contributions are grouped into the following topical sections: practices with smartphones; sensing at home, sensing at work; predicting the future; location sensing; augmenting mobile phone use; pervasive computing in the public arena; public displays; hands on with sensing; sensing on the body.

• ambient intelligence
• assistive technology
• location-based computing
• mobile computing
• smart buildings
• ubiquitous computing
• wearable computing

• Intel Labs Santa Clara, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, USA

  Kent Lyons

• Google, Seattle, Seattle, USA

  Jeffrey Hightower

• Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  Elaine M. Huang

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