Pervasive 2006 Conference Program:

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Friday
May 5th 2006
MUCS 2006 (Cork). (Complete)
State Reception Venue: Dublin Castle
Friday
May 5th 2006
EI Location Services Technology Roadmap Dublin
(complete)
Sunday
May 7th 2006
Workshops W1 - W8
Monday
May 8th 2006
Keynote, Research Presentations, Posters, Demos, Videos State Reception
Tuesday
May 9th 2006
Keynote, Research Presentations, Gala Dinner
Wednesday
May 10th 2006
Doctoral Colloquium (UCD Dublin)
Wednesday
May 10th 2006
LoCA 2006 (IBM Dublin)
Thursday
May 11th 2006
LoCA 2006 (IBM Dublin)

Monday, May 8th 2006

9.00-9.20

Introduction

Welcome and official opening of the conference

9.20-10.20

Keynote 1

“Proactive Computing”
David Tennenhouse Chief Executive Officer A9.com

Session Chair: Paddy Nixon (UCD Dublin, Ireland)

10.20-10.50

Morning Tea/Coffee Break

10.50-11.30

Session 1: Activity Recognition

A Practical Approach to Recognizing Physical Activities
Jonathan Lester, Tanzeem Choudhury, and Gaetano Borriello

Building Reliable Activity Models Using Hierarchical Shrinkage and Mined Ontology
Emmanuel Munguia Tapia, Tanzeem Choudhury, and Matthai Philipose

Session Chair: Paul Lukowicz (UMIT, Austria)

11.30-12.30

Session 2: Activity and Context

"Need to Know": Examining Information Need in Location Discourse
Derek Reilly, David Dearman, Vicki Ha, Ian Sminth, and Kori Inkpen

Collaborative Localization -Enhancing WiFi-Based Position Estimation with Neighborhood Links in Clusters
Li-wei Chan, Ji-rung Chiang, Yi-chao Chen, Chia-nan Ke, Jane Hsu, and Hao-hua Chu

Risks of using AP locations discovered through war driving
Minkyong Kim, Jeffrey J. Fielding, and David Kotz

Session Chair: Anind Dey (CMU, USA)

12.30-14.00

Lunch Break

14.00-15.20

Session 3: Sensors, Sensor Processing and Platforms

Declarative Support for Sensor Data Cleaning
Shawn Jeffery, Gustavo Alonso, Michael J. Franklin, Wei Hong, and Jennifer Widom

Detecting and Interpreting Muscle Activity with Wearable Force Sensors
Paul Lukowicz, Friedrich Hanser, Chrsitoph Szubski, and Wolfgang Schobersberger

The Design of a Portable Toolkit of Wireless Sensors for Naturalistic Data Collection
Emmanuel Munguia Tapia, Stephen S. Intille, Louis Lopez, and Kent Larson

The Smart Tachograph - Individual Accounting of Traffic Costs and its Implications
Vlad Coroama

Session Chair: Gaetano Borriello (University of Washington, USA)

15.20-16.00

Posters, Demos, and Videos Overview

1-Minute Madness (Overview presentation of posters, demos and videos)

Co-Chairs
Kieran Delaney (Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland)
Gavin Doherty (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Tom Pfeifer (Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland) *
Albrecht Schmidt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität,Germany)
Woontack Woo (KJIST, S. Korea)

*Session Chair: Tom Pfeifer

16.00-18.00

Posters, Demos and Videos Reception

Posters will be exhibited in the conference hotel.

Demos will be exhibited in the exhibition area.

Videos will be shown in a special session from 4.30 in the main conference room (Landsdown Room).

Tea and coffee will be provided during the reception.

18.00-18.30 Groups depart hotel for Dublin Castle
19.00-21.00 Formal State Reception – Dublin Castle

 

       Tuesday, May 9th 2006

9.00-10.00

Keynote

“Pervasive Computing: Off The Beaten Path”
Joe Marks, Research Director, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

Session Chair: Aaron Quigley (UCD Dublin, Ireland)

10.00-10.40

Session 4: Toolkits and Gaming

Domino: Exploring Mobile Collaborative Software Adaptation
Marek Bell, Malcolm Hall, Matthew Chalmers, Phil Gray, and Barry Brown

Keep your eyes on the road and your finger on the trigger – Designing for mixed focus of attention in a mobile game for brief encounters
Liselott Brunnberg and Oskar Juhlin

Session Chair: Michael Beigl (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)

10.40-11.10

Morning Tea/Coffee Break

11.10-12.30

Session 5: Security

Unobtrusive Multimodal Biometrics for Ensuring Privacy and Information Security with Personal Devices
Elena Vildjiounaite, Satu-Marja Mäkelä, Mikko Lindholm, Reima Riihimäki, Vesa Kyllönen, Jani Mäntyjärvi, and Heikki Ailisto

LoKey: Leveraging the SMS Network in Decentralized, End-to-End Trust Establishment
Anthony J. Nicholson, Ian E. Smith, Jeff Hughes, and Brian Noble

Scalability in a Secure Distributed Proof System
Kazuhiro Minami and David Kotz

Secure Mobile Computing via Public Terminals
Richard Sharp, James Scott, and Alastair R. Beresford

Session Chair: Kenji Mase (Nagoya University, Japan)

12.30-14.00

Lunch Break

14.00-15.40

Session 6: Pointing, Interaction and Displays

iCAP: Interactive Prototyping of Context-Aware Applications
Anind K. Dey, Timothy Sohn, Sara Streng, and Justiin Kodama

iCam: Precise at-a-distance Interaction in the Physical Environment
Shwetak N. Patel, Jun Rekimoto, and Gregory D. Abowd

Gesture Signature for Ambient Intelligence Applications: a Feasibility Study
Elisabetta Farella, Sile O’Modhrain, Luca Benini, and Bruno Riccó

Exploring the Effects of Target Location Size and Position System Accuracy on Location Based Applications
Cliff Randell, Erik Geelhoed, Alan Dix, and Henk Muller

Displays in the Wild: Understanding the Dynamics and Evolution of a Display Ecology
Elaine M. Huang, Elizabeth Mynatt, and Jay P. Trimble

Session Chair: Antonio Krueger (University of Muenster, Germany)

15.40-16.10 Afternoon Tea/Coffee Break
16.10-17.30

Session 7: Smart Homes and Beyond

Modeling Human Behavior from Simple Sensors in the Home
Ryan Aipperspach, Elliot Cohen, and John Canny

Using a Live-In Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing Research
Stephen S. Intille, Kent Larson, Emmanuel Munguia Tapia, Jennifer S. Beaudin, Pallavi Kaushik, Jason Nawyn, and Randy Rockinson

The Diet-Aware Dining Table: Observing Dietary Behaviors over a Tabletop Surface
Keng-hao Chang, Shih-yen Liu, Hao-hua Chu, Jane Yung-jen Hsu, Cheryl Chen, Tung-yun Lin, Chieh-yu Chen, and Polly Huang

Lessons for the Future: Experiences with the Installation and Use of Todays Domestic Sensors & Technologies
Mark Stringer, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, and Eric Harris

Sesion Chair: Gregory Abowd (Georgia Tech, USA)

17.30 – 17.40

Formal Closing

19.00 Buses depart hotel
20.00 Gala Dinner Guinness Storehouse
* Best Paper Award