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Smart Sensing and Context

Third European Conference, EuroSSC 2008, Zurich, Switzerland, October 29-31, 2008, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5279)

Part of the book sub series: Computer Communication Networks and Telecommunications (LNCCN)

Conference series link(s): EuroSSC: European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context

Conference proceedings info: EuroSSC 2008.

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Table of contents (18 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Invited Paper

    1. Transforming Daily Life Objects into Tactile Interfaces

      • Alain Crevoisier, Cédric Bornand
      Pages 1-13
  3. Smart Objects

    1. Vision-Based Detection of Mobile Smart Objects

      • David Molyneaux, Hans Gellersen, Bernt Schiele
      Pages 27-40
    2. Design and Evaluation of a Sound Based Water Flow Measurement System

      • Alejandro Ibarz, Gerald Bauer, Roberto Casas, Alvaro Marco, Paul Lukowicz
      Pages 41-54
  4. Spatial and Human Context Inference

    1. Gaussian Process Person Identifier Based on Simple Floor Sensors

      • Jaakko Suutala, Kaori Fujinami, Juha Röning
      Pages 55-68
    2. GammaSense: Infrastructureless Positioning Using Background Radioactivity

      • Doina Bucur, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard
      Pages 69-82
    3. People Identification Using Gait Via Floor Pressure Sensing and Analysis

      • Gang Qian, Jiqing Zhang, Assegid Kidané
      Pages 83-98
    4. Location-Free Object Tracking on Graph Structures

      • Daniela Krüger, Carsten Buschmann, Stefan Fischer
      Pages 99-111
  5. Context Processing and Quality of Context

    1. Reasoning about Context in Uncertain Pervasive Computing Environments

      • Pari Delir Haghighi, Shonali Krishnaswamy, Arkady Zaslavsky, Mohamed Medhat Gaber
      Pages 112-125
    2. Contextual Ranking of Database Querying Results: A Statistical Approach

      • Xiang Li, Ling Feng, Lizhu Zhou
      Pages 126-139
    3. On the Evaluation of Quality of Context

      • Atif Manzoor, Hong-Linh Truong, Schahram Dustdar
      Pages 140-153
    4. A Game-Theoretic Approach to Co-operative Context-Aware Driving with Partially Random Behavior

      • Stefan Rass, Simone Fuchs, Kyandoghere Kyamakya
      Pages 154-167
    5. Mobile Context-Addressable Messaging with DL-Lite Domain Model

      • Michal Koziuk, Jaroslaw Domaszewicz, Radoslaw Olgierd Schoeneich, Marcin Jablonowski, Piotr Boetzel
      Pages 168-181
  6. Context-Aware Interaction and Case Studies

    1. A Wearable, Conductive Textile Based User Interface for Hospital Ward Rounds Document Access

      • Jingyuan Cheng, David Bannach, Kurt Adamer, Thomas Bernreiter, Paul Lukowicz
      Pages 182-191
    2. Exploring the Design of Pay-Per-Use Objects in the Construction Domain

      • Daniel Fitton, Vasughi Sundramoorthy, Gerd Kortuem, James Brown, Christos Efstratiou, Joe Finney et al.
      Pages 192-205
    3. Synthesizing Context for a Sports Domain on a Mobile Device

      • Alisa Devlic, Michal Koziuk, Wybe Horsman
      Pages 206-219
    4. Using Aesthetic and Empathetic Expressions to Motivate Desirable Lifestyle

      • Tatsuo Nakajima, Hiroaki Kimura, Tetsuo Yamabe, Vili Lehdonvirta, Chihiro Takayama, Miyuki Shiraishi et al.
      Pages 220-234
    5. Raising Awareness about Space via Vibro-Tactile Notifications

      • Andreas Riener, Alois Ferscha
      Pages 235-245
  7. Back Matter

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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Wearable Computing Laboratory, Institut für Elektronik,, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Daniel Roggen

  • Wearable Computing Laboratory, Institut für Elektronik, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Clemens Lombriser, Gerhard Tröster

  • InfoLab 21, Computing Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

    Gerd Kortuem

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Paul Havinga

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