Location and Context Awareness
4th International Symposium, LoCA 2009 Tokyo, Japan, May 7-8, 2009 Proceedings
Published on 22. April 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
VIII, 283 pages
978-3-642-01720-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Edition
2009 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
VIII, 283 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
446 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-642-01720-9 (9783642017209)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-01721-6
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Multi Activity Recognition Based on Bodymodel-Derived Primitives.- Activity Inference through Sequence Alignment.- Improving Location Fingerprinting through Motion Detection and Asynchronous Interval Labeling.- Using Context Annotated Mobility Profiles to Recruit Data Collectors in Participatory Sensing.- Location Diversity: Enhanced Privacy Protection in Location Based Services.- Nonvisual, Distal Tracking of Mobile Remote Agents in Geosocial Interaction.- Directional Beaconing: A Robust WiFi Positioning Method Using Angle-of-Emission Information.- Bluetooth Tracking without Discoverability.- Error Estimation for Indoor 802.11 Location Fingerprinting.- Activity Recognition from Sparsely Labeled Data Using Multi-Instance Learning.- A Framework for Creating and Using Maps of Privately Owned Spaces.- Daily Routine Recognition through Activity Spotting.- SofTOA: Software Ranging for TOA-Based Positioning of WLAN Terminals.- Position Estimation from UWB Pseudorange and Angle-of-Arrival: A Comparison of Non-linear Regression and Kalman Filtering.- An Ultrasonic 3D Positioning System Using a Single Compact Receiver Unit.- LOCK: A Highly Accurate, Easy-to-Use Location-Based Access Control System.- Characterizing the Space by Presenting Non-visual Information.