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Full Title

Location and Context Awareness 4th International Symposium, LoCA 2009 Tokyo, Japan, May 7-8, 2009 Proceedings 1st Edition

Author(s)

Tanzeem Choudhury, ‎Aaron Quigley, ‎Thomas Strang

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9783642017216, 9783642017209

Publisher

Springer

Format

PDF and EPUB

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.