CASEMANS '11Pub Date : 2011-09-17DOI: 10.1145/2036146.2036152
H. Yamazoe, Y. Koyama, Tomoko Yonezawa, Shinji Abe, K. Mase
{"title":"Estimation of user conversational states based on combination of user actions and feature normalization","authors":"H. Yamazoe, Y. Koyama, Tomoko Yonezawa, Shinji Abe, K. Mase","doi":"10.1145/2036146.2036152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2036146.2036152","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a method to estimate such user conversational states as concentrating/not concentrating. We previously proposed a robot-assisted videophone system to sustain conversations between elderly people. In such video-phone systems, the user conversational situation must be estimated so that the robot behaves appropriately. The proposed method employs i) elemental actions and a combination of user elemental actions as features for recognition and ii) the normalization of feature vectors based on the frequencies of actions. The experimental results show the effectiveness of our method.","PeriodicalId":391842,"journal":{"name":"CASEMANS '11","volume":"439 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122145507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CASEMANS '11Pub Date : 2011-09-17DOI: 10.1145/2036146.2036147
W. Dargie
{"title":"Why is context-aware computing less successful?","authors":"W. Dargie","doi":"10.1145/2036146.2036147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2036146.2036147","url":null,"abstract":"The paper addresses some of the challenges in developing context-aware systems. It begins by looking into some of the proposed context-aware systems and examines why they fail to have practical relevance. It then examines some of the successful features of contemporary ubiquitous systems and applications to drive a lesson that can be useful for developing context-aware systems.","PeriodicalId":391842,"journal":{"name":"CASEMANS '11","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123531310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CASEMANS '11Pub Date : 2011-09-17DOI: 10.1145/2036146.2036151
Eran Toch
{"title":"Super-Ego: a framework for privacy-sensitive bounded context-awareness","authors":"Eran Toch","doi":"10.1145/2036146.2036151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2036146.2036151","url":null,"abstract":"Context-awareness enables applications to better streamline and personalize their service according to the current situation of the user. However, the user's information used by context-aware applications, such as the user's current location, is inherently private and sensitive. Using this information without proper control by the user can lead to privacy risks and might harm the trust users have in the context-aware application. To address this tradeoff between the effectiveness and privacy, we present Super-Ego, a framework for at-hoc management of access to location information in ubiq-uitous environment. Using this framework, we model and evaluate different decision strategies for managing mobile application's access to location context. The strategies we test are based on automatic algorithms that use knowledge about historical disclosure of locations by large number of users, with the optional delegation of some of the decisions to the user. We evaluate the system empirically, using people's detailed location trails from public resources, augmented with simulated data about sharing behavior. Our results reflect on an interesting tradeoff between automation and accuracy, which can enable the design of efficient and usable approaches to privacy-sensitive context-aware applications.","PeriodicalId":391842,"journal":{"name":"CASEMANS '11","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131209892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CASEMANS '11Pub Date : 2011-09-17DOI: 10.1145/2036146.2036149
Mi Zhang, A. Sawchuk
{"title":"Context-aware fall detection using a Bayesian network","authors":"Mi Zhang, A. Sawchuk","doi":"10.1145/2036146.2036149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2036146.2036149","url":null,"abstract":"Human activity recognition is regarded as one of the most important topics in ubiquitous computing. In this paper, we focus on recognizing falls. Falls are a leading cause of death among elderly people. Most existing fall detection techniques focus on studying isolated fall motion under restricted, clearly defined conditions, and thus suffer from a relatively high false positive rate induced by many other activities that resemble a fall. In this paper, we present an integrated fall detection framework that incorporates isolated fall detection algorithms with context information using a Bayesian network. The context information can include a person's age, personal health history, physiological measurements (such as respiration, blood pressure, heart rate, etc.), physical activity level and location. These additional sources of information are complement inputs to our framework to improve decision accuracy in recognizing activities such as a fall. A Bayesian network is constructed to structure the probabilistic dependencies between isolated fall detection result and various contextual sensor readings, and perform inference on the likelihood of a fall in a given context. Preliminary experimental results demonstrate that context information can play a significant role in improving fall detection accuracy and reducing both false negative and false positive rates. We also demonstrate that our probabilistic Bayesian model can produce informative inference results even when partial contextual information is observed.","PeriodicalId":391842,"journal":{"name":"CASEMANS '11","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114772545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CASEMANS '11Pub Date : 2011-09-17DOI: 10.1145/2036146.2036150
S. Sigg
{"title":"Context-based security: state of the art, open research topics and a case study","authors":"S. Sigg","doi":"10.1145/2036146.2036150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2036146.2036150","url":null,"abstract":"We discuss the use of context for cryptographic applications and present a case study in which we exemplary utilise ambient audio to establish a common cryptographic key among devices in proximity. We show that we can tweak the security level of the application by adapting the parameters of the Reed-Solomon error correcting code utilised.","PeriodicalId":391842,"journal":{"name":"CASEMANS '11","volume":"390 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116491926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CASEMANS '11Pub Date : 2011-09-17DOI: 10.1145/2036146.2036153
Abulgader Almutairi, F. Siewe
{"title":"CA-UCON: a context-aware usage control model","authors":"Abulgader Almutairi, F. Siewe","doi":"10.1145/2036146.2036153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2036146.2036153","url":null,"abstract":"Usage CONtrol (UCON) model is the latest major enhancement of the traditional access control models which enables mutability of subject and object attributes, and continuity of control on usage of resources. In UCON, access permission decision is based on three factors: authorisations, obligations and conditions. While authorisations and obligations are requirements that must be fulfilled by the subject and the object, conditions are subject and object independent requirements that must be satisfied by the environment. As a consequence, access permission may be revoked (and the access stopped) as a result of changes in the environment regardless of whether the authorisations and obligations re-quirements are met. This constitutes a major shortcoming of the UCON model in pervasive computing systems which constantly strive to adapt to environmental changes so as to minimise disruptions to the user. To overcome this limitation, this paper proposes a Context-Aware Usage CONtrol (CA-UCON) model which extends the traditional UCON model to enable adaptation to environmental changes in the aim of preserving continuity of access. When the authori-sations and obligations requirements are met by the subject and the object, and the conditions requirements fail due to changes in the environment or the system context, CA-UCON model triggers specific actions to adapt to the new situation. Besides the data protection. CA-UCON model so enhances the quality of services, striving to keep explicit interactions with the user at a minimum.","PeriodicalId":391842,"journal":{"name":"CASEMANS '11","volume":"201 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124497433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CASEMANS '11Pub Date : 2011-09-17DOI: 10.1145/2036146.2036148
Tomoko Yonezawa, Naoki Okamoto, H. Yamazoe, Shinji Abe, F. Hattori, N. Hagita
{"title":"Privacy protected life-context-aware alert by simplified sound spectrogram from microphone sensor","authors":"Tomoko Yonezawa, Naoki Okamoto, H. Yamazoe, Shinji Abe, F. Hattori, N. Hagita","doi":"10.1145/2036146.2036148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2036146.2036148","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces a design of life-context-aware alert system from multiple small microphone sensors at various places in home. In order to support the comfortable daily lives of elderly people who live alone, it is important to know their daily activities in home without privacy exposure. In the case of their emergency appeared from overwatching data, the system must alert the situation to the hospitals, ambulances, or their families. To reduce data for fast calculation on PIC and to protect their privacy, the system adopts simplified sound spectrogram from each installed microphone modules. The system first analyses these multiple signals to roughly understand what situation occurs, and decides what type of daily-life are found. When the user's life shows emergent situations, the system alerts to the appropriate contact person or institution. This paper especially describes how to simplify the raw data from the microphone sensor with using frequency/time domain for reducing the amount of data and for privacy protection.","PeriodicalId":391842,"journal":{"name":"CASEMANS '11","volume":"156 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121719747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}