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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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Kenneth P. Fishkin Bernt Schiele Paddy Nixon Aaron Quigley (Eds.)

Pervasive Computing 4th International Conference, PERVASIVE 2006 Dublin, Ireland, May 7-10, 2006 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Kenneth P. Fishkin Google, Inc. Kirkland, WA 98033, USA E-mail: fi[email protected] Bernt Schiele University of Technology Computer Science Department Darmstadt, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Paddy Nixon Aaron Quigley University College Dublin, UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland E-mail: {Paddy.Nixon,Aaron.Quigley}@ucd.ie

Library of Congress Control Number: 2006924368 CR Subject Classification (1998): C.2.4, C.3, C.5.3, D.4, H.3-5, K.4, K.6.5, J.7 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 3 – Information Systems and Application, incl. Internet/Web and HCI ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

Welcome to the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Pervasive Computing. We are honored to serve as chairs in this conference series, founded in 2002, which has emerged as one of the most respected venues for publication of research in pervasive and ubiquitous computing. This year’s conference demonstrated the increasing breadth and depth of worldwide research on pervasive and ubiquitous computin