UbiComp 2006: Ubiquitous Computing

1. Front Matter

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2. A Quantitative Method for Revealing and Comparing Places in the Home

   • Ryan Aipperspach, Tye Rattenbury, Allison Woodruff, John Canny

   Pages 1-18

3. Principles of Smart Home Control

   • Scott Davidoff, Min Kyung Lee, Charles Yiu, John Zimmerman, Anind K. Dey

   Pages 19-34

4. Historical Analysis: Using the Past to Design the Future

   • Susan Wyche, Phoebe Sengers, Rebecca E. Grinter

   Pages 35-51

5. Extending Authoring Tools for Location-Aware Applications with an Infrastructure Visualization Layer

   • Leif Oppermann, Gregor Broll, Mauricio Capra, Steve Benford

   Pages 52-68

6. Automated Generation of Basic Custom Sensor-Based Embedded Computing Systems Guided by End-User Optimization Criteria

   • Susan Lysecky, Frank Vahid

   Pages 69-86

7. An Experimental Comparison of Physical Mobile Interaction Techniques: Touching, Pointing and Scanning

   • Enrico Rukzio, Karin Leichtenstern, Vic Callaghan, Paul Holleis, Albrecht Schmidt, Jeannette Chin

   Pages 87-104

8. An Exploratory Study of How Older Women Use Mobile Phones

   • Sri Kurniawan

   Pages 105-122

9. Farther Than You May Think: An Empirical Investigation of the Proximity of Users to Their Mobile Phones

   • Shwetak N. Patel, Julie A. Kientz, Gillian R. Hayes, Sooraj Bhat, Gregory D. Abowd

   Pages 123-140

10. No More SMS from Jesus: Ubicomp, Religion and Techno-spiritual Practices

    • Genevieve Bell

    Pages 141-158

11. Scribe4Me: Evaluating a Mobile Sound Transcription Tool for the Deaf

    • Tara Matthews, Scott Carter, Carol Pai, Janette Fong, Jennifer Mankoff

    Pages 159-176

12. SenseCam: A Retrospective Memory Aid

    • Steve Hodges, Lyndsay Williams, Emma Berry, Shahram Izadi, James Srinivasan, Alex Butler et al.

    Pages 177-193

13. Development of a Privacy Addendum for Open Source Licenses: Value Sensitive Design in Industry

    • Batya Friedman, Ian Smith, Peter H. Kahn Jr., Sunny Consolvo, Jaina Selawski

    Pages 194-211

14. Mobility Detection Using Everyday GSM Traces

    • Timothy Sohn, Alex Varshavsky, Anthony LaMarca, Mike Y. Chen, Tanzeem Choudhury, Ian Smith et al.

    Pages 212-224

15. Practical Metropolitan-Scale Positioning for GSM Phones

    • Mike Y. Chen, Timothy Sohn, Dmitri Chmelev, Dirk Haehnel, Jeffrey Hightower, Jeff Hughes et al.

    Pages 225-242

16. Predestination: Inferring Destinations from Partial Trajectories

    • John Krumm, Eric Horvitz

    Pages 243-260

17. Fish’n’Steps: Encouraging Physical Activity with an Interactive Computer Game

    • James J. Lin, Lena Mamykina, Silvia Lindtner, Gregory Delajoux, Henry B. Strub

    Pages 261-278

18. Hitchers: Designing for Cellular Positioning

    • Adam Drozd, Steve Benford, Nick Tandavanitj, Michael Wright, Alan Chamberlain

    Pages 279-296

19. Embedding Behavior Modification Strategies into a Consumer Electronic Device: A Case Study

    • Jason Nawyn, Stephen S. Intille, Kent Larson

    Pages 297-314

20. Instrumenting the City: Developing Methods for Observing and Understanding the Digital Cityscape

    • Eamonn O’Neill, Vassilis Kostakos, Tim Kindberg, Ava Fatah gen. Schiek, Alan Penn, Danaë Stanton Fraser et al.

    Pages 315-332

Fifteen years after the publication of Weiser’s seminal paper in Scientific American, ubiquitous computing is a large, thriving field of academic research and commercial innovation. The proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous C- puting reflect the strength, diversity and vigor of the research program that Weiser initiated. We hope that you will find much in the papers contained herein to stimulate new and exciting work as we reach forward toward ubiquitous computing together. The location of the conference, in Orange County, California, was particularly - posite given recent directions in the field. A Pacific Rim location linked the conf- ence to last year’s venue in Tokyo, Japan, and provided an appropriate space to reflect on the different implementations and visions of ubiquitous computing in d- ferent parts of the world. Two significant elements of local industry – the software industry and the entertainment industry – reflect concerns heavily represented in - cent research in ubiquitous computing, with mobile and ubiquitous gaming, for - stance, an obvious link. The unique metropolitan setting of the Los Angeles region provided a useful setting in which to develop research agendas in urban computing. Finally, while there are no papers in the proceedings on surfing-based Ubicomp, the cultural focus on healthy lifestyles in Southern California relates to concerns with aging and health as important application areas for ubiquitous computing technologies and solutions.

• CompTIA RFID+
• HCI
• Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID)
• Ubiquitous Computing
• ad-hoc networks
• collaborative computing
• communication security
• context-aware applications
• distributed systems
• embedded systems
• handheld devices
• location-aware computing
• mobile computing
• object tracking
• privacy

• Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, USA

  Paul Dourish

• Computing Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

  Adrian Friday

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