Olejar Books

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2006, held in Orange County, CA, USA in September 2006. The 30 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 232 submissions. The papers address all current issues in the area of ubiquitous, pervasive and handheld computing systems and their applications including topics like: improving natural interaction (applied sensing, fusion and reasoning, AI and speech technologies for Ubicomp, increasing machine understanding of human action and vice versa), constructing ubicomp systems (systems and toolkit support for constructing, maintaining and deploying and prototyping ubicomp environments), embedding computation (novel user interfaces, computational and sensing, actuator platforms, assistive technologies, applied to ubicomp), understanding ubicomp and its consequences (conceptual models, lessons learnt, user studies and results from ubicomp experiments), deploying ubicomp technologies (privacy, security, and trust, real-world and deployment experiences, studies of ubicomp settings).