UbiComp 2006: Ubiquitous Computing

A Quantitative Method for Revealing and Comparing Places in the Home.- Principles of Smart Home Control.- Historical Analysis: Using the Past to Design the Future.- Extending Authoring Tools for Location-Aware Applications with an Infrastructure Visualization Layer.- Automated Generation of Basic Custom Sensor-Based Embedded Computing Systems Guided by End-User Optimization Criteria.- An Experimental Comparison of Physical Mobile Interaction Techniques: Touching, Pointing and Scanning.- An Exploratory Study of How Older Women Use Mobile Phones.- Farther Than You May Think: An Empirical Investigation of the Proximity of Users to Their Mobile Phones.- No More SMS from Jesus: Ubicomp, Religion and Techno-spiritual Practices.- Scribe4Me: Evaluating a Mobile Sound Transcription Tool for the Deaf.- SenseCam: A Retrospective Memory Aid.- Development of a Privacy Addendum for Open Source Licenses: Value Sensitive Design in Industry.- Mobility Detection Using Everyday GSM Traces.- Practical Metropolitan-Scale Positioning for GSM Phones.- Predestination: Inferring Destinations from Partial Trajectories.- Fish’n’Steps: Encouraging Physical Activity with an Interactive Computer Game.- Hitchers: Designing for Cellular Positioning.- Embedding Behavior Modification Strategies into a Consumer Electronic Device: A Case Study.- Instrumenting the City: Developing Methods for Observing and Understanding the Digital Cityscape.- Voting with Your Feet: An Investigative Study of the Relationship Between Place Visit Behavior and Preference.- Lo-Fi Matchmaking: A Study of Social Pairing for Backpackers.- Experiences from Real-World Deployment of Context-Aware Technologies in a Hospital Environment.- Doing Community: Co-construction of Meaning and Use with Interactive Information Kiosks.- Moving on from Weiser’s Vision of Calm Computing: Engaging UbiComp Experiences.- Ferret: RFID Localization for Pervasive Multimedia.- PowerLine Positioning: A Practical Sub-Room-Level Indoor Location System for Domestic Use.- UbiREAL: Realistic Smartspace Simulator for Systematic Testing.- Instant Matchmaking: Simple and Secure Integrated Ubiquitous Computing Environments.- A Wirelessly-Powered Platform for Sensing and Computation.- Automated Application-Specific Tuning of Parameterized Sensor-Based Embedded System Building Blocks.