Location- and Context-Awareness Second International Workshop, LoCA

nd These proceedings contain the papers presented at the 2 International Workshop on Location- and Context-Awareness in May of 2006. As computing moves increasingly into the everyday world, the importance of location and context knowledge grows. The range

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Mike Hazas John Krumm Thomas Strang (Eds.)

Location- and Context-Awareness Second International Workshop, LoCA 2006 Dublin, Ireland, May 10-11, 2006 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Mike Hazas Lancaster University Computing Department, Infolab South Drive, Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK E-mail: [email protected] John Krumm Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, USA E-mail: [email protected] Thomas Strang Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt P.O. Box 1116, 82234 Wessling/Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2006924878 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.3, H.4, C.2, H.5, K.8 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 3 – Information Systems and Application, incl. Internet/Web and HCI ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface These proceedings contain the papers presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Location- and Context-Awareness in May of 2006. As computing moves increasingly into the everyday world, the importance of location and context knowledge grows. The range of contexts encountered while sitting at a desk working on a computer is very limited compared to the large variety of situations experienced away from the desktop. For computing to be relevant and usef