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Location and Context Awareness

4th International Symposium, LoCA 2009 Tokyo, Japan, May 7-8, 2009 Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5561)

Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)

Conference series link(s): LoCA: International Symposium on Location- and Context-Awareness

Conference proceedings info: LoCA 2009.

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Table of contents (17 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Multi Activity Recognition Based on Bodymodel-Derived Primitives

    • Andreas Zinnen, Christian Wojek, Bernt Schiele
    Pages 1-18
  3. Activity Inference through Sequence Alignment

    • Driss Choujaa, Naranker Dulay
    Pages 19-36
  4. Improving Location Fingerprinting through Motion Detection and Asynchronous Interval Labeling

    • Philipp Bolliger, Kurt Partridge, Maurice Chu, Marc Langheinrich
    Pages 37-51
  5. Using Context Annotated Mobility Profiles to Recruit Data Collectors in Participatory Sensing

    • Sasank Reddy, Katie Shilton, Jeff Burke, Deborah Estrin, Mark Hansen, Mani Srivastava
    Pages 52-69
  6. Location Diversity: Enhanced Privacy Protection in Location Based Services

    • Mingqiang Xue, Panos Kalnis, Hung Keng Pung
    Pages 70-87
  7. Nonvisual, Distal Tracking of Mobile Remote Agents in Geosocial Interaction

    • Steven Strachan, Roderick Murray-Smith
    Pages 88-102
  8. Directional Beaconing: A Robust WiFi Positioning Method Using Angle-of-Emission Information

    • Kensaku Kawauchi, Takashi Miyaki, Jun Rekimoto
    Pages 103-119
  9. Bluetooth Tracking without Discoverability

    • Simon Hay, Robert Harle
    Pages 120-137
  10. Error Estimation for Indoor 802.11 Location Fingerprinting

    • Hendrik Lemelson, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Rene Hansen, Thomas King
    Pages 138-155
  11. Daily Routine Recognition through Activity Spotting

    • Ulf Blanke, Bernt Schiele
    Pages 192-206
  12. SofTOA: Software Ranging for TOA-Based Positioning of WLAN Terminals

    • Marc Ciurana, David López, Francisco Barceló-Arroyo
    Pages 207-221
  13. An Ultrasonic 3D Positioning System Using a Single Compact Receiver Unit

    • Masanori Sugimoto, Kan Tulathimutte, Toshio Ito, Tetsuya Sato, Hiromichi Hashizume
    Pages 240-253
  14. LOCK: A Highly Accurate, Easy-to-Use Location-Based Access Control System

    • Yongcai Wang, Junhui Zhao, Toshikazu Fukushima
    Pages 254-270
  15. Characterizing the Space by Presenting Non-visual Information

    • Tomohiro Akagawa, Takuji Narumi, Young Ah Seong, Takashi Kiriyama
    Pages 271-282
  16. Back Matter

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About this book

These proceedings contain the papers presented at the 4th International S- posium on Location and Context Awareness (LoCA) during May 7–8, 2009 in Tokyo,Japan.Locationandcontextawarenessarefundamentstonext-generation mobile and pervasive computing systems. Pervasive computing is a model of computing in which computation is everywhere and computer functions are - tegrated into everything. The ultimate aim is to make information, applications and services available anywhere and at anytime in the human environment in a ?uid manner appropriate to our current context. Once away from the desktop, we ?nd ourselves in a wide variety of contexts and hence situations. For computing to be relevant and useful in these emerging situations we must rely on a range of contextual cues. Context includes phys- logical, environmental, and computational data, whether sensed or inferred. In addition, context includes details of a user’s activities, goals, abilities, pref- ences, a?ordances, and surroundings. With location and context awareness we can expect computers to deliver information, services, and entertainment in a way that maximizes convenience and minimizes intrusion.

Keywords

  • GPS
  • Text
  • activity recognition
  • ambient controlling
  • communication
  • context aware computing
  • information
  • location inference
  • location-based access control
  • machine learning
  • management
  • mobility modeling
  • navigation
  • pervasive co
  • privacy

Editors and Affiliations

  • Computer Science Department, Dartmouth, USA

    Tanzeem Choudhury

  • Complex & Adaptive Systems Laboratory, School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland

    Aaron Quigley

  • Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center, 82234 Wessling/Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, and Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Thomas Strang

  • Semiconductor Group R&D Division, Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

    Koji Suginuma

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