Thorsten Prante (E-Mail), Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany
  Brian Meyers (E-Mail), Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA
  Geraldine Fitzpatrick (E-Mail), University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
  Lonnie D. Harvel (E-Mail), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
Interconnected collections of computational artifacts have to exhibit smart and coherent behavior in support of the users' activities and tasks across artifacts/devices, in order to be perceived as smart environments on the users' side.

A promising approach to enhance the user experience in smart environments is to exploit recorded histories of the users' interactions in context (context histories for short). These histories can be used to support ubiquitous/pervasive computing applications with an enhanced understanding of the users' activities and interactions as they expand and develop over time. In addition, current contextual data is often imperfect and noisy and can be smoothed from the use of histories.

Exploiting context histories may, for example, result in less distractions, more adapted and coherent behavior of multi-computer setups, and better support in information management and search. The user could end up with a more supportive and comforting environment. At the same time, however, the collection, storage, management, and exploitation of context histories is a delicate issue, as privacy, informational self-determination, and data security are touched. In smart environments, there will be multiple users interacting with multiple and heterogeneous devices, some of them with little storage and computing power.

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Privacy Enhanced Active RFID Tag
Shingo Kinoshita, Miyako Ohkubo, Fumitaka Hoshino, Gembu Morohashi, Osamu Shionoiri, Atsushi Kanai
(NTT, Japan)
Next Location Prediction Within a Smart Office Building
Jan Petzold, Faruk Bagci,Wolfgang Trumler, Theo Ungerer (University of Augsburg, Germany)
The Geographic Context Browser
John Krumm (Microsoft Research, USA)
Wonder Objects - Magic and Interactive Storytelling
Tarun Jung Rawat (Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy)
Sharing Context History in Mobile, Context-Aware Trails-Based Applications
Mike Spence, Cormac Driver, Siobhán Clarke (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Managing Project Contexts: Interaction History as a Resource
Victor Kaptelinin (Umeĺ University, Sweden)
Integrating History and Activity Theory in Context Aware System Design
Manasawee Kaenampornpan, Eamonn O'Neill (University of Bath, UK)
Tracking Personal Histories for Knowledge Discovery
Dennis P. Groth (Indiana University, USA)
Building a Personal Memory for Situated User Support
Michael Schneider, Mathias Bauer, Alexander Kröner (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence,
DFKI, Germany)
ShareAware: An Interactive Pervasive System to Promote Awareness of Workstation Ergonomics
Anurag Sehgal, Patray Wing Lam Lui (Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy)
MoBe: Context-Aware Mobile Applications on Mobile Devices for Mobile Users
Paolo Coppola, Vincenzo Della Mea, Luca Di Gaspero, Stefano Mizzaro, Ivan Scagnetto, Andrea Selva,
Luca Vassena, Paolo Zandegiacomo Riziň (University of Udine, Italy)
Phsycial WorkPace: A Case Study on Exploiting Context Histories in Personal Healthcare Domain
Yuechen Qian (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Context Histories, Activites and Abstractions: Ubiquitous Computing Support for Individual and Collaborative Work
Stephen Voida, Elizabeth D. Mynatt (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Context Prediction based on Context Histories: Expected Benefits, Issues and Current State-of-the-Art
Rene Mayrhofer (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
Using Context History for Data Collection in the Home
Daniel H.Wilson (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Danny Wyatt (University of Washington, USA),
Matthai Philipose (Intel Research Seattle, USA)
Sharing Photos and Recommendations in the City Streets
Marek Bell, Matthew Chalmers, Barry Brown, Ian MacColl, Malcolm Hall, Paul Rudman (University of Glasgow, UK)
A Stochastic Approach for Creating Context-Aware Services based on Context Histories in Smart Home
Hua Si, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Hiroyuki Morikawa, Tomonori Aoyama (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Situation Determination with Distributed Context Histories
Graham Thomson, Paddy Nixon, and Sotirios Terzis (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Immune Inspired Context Memory
Philipp H. Mohr, Jon Timmis, Nick Ryan (University of Kent, UK)
Transparent Interaction, Dynamic Generation: Context Histories for Shared Science
mc schraefel, Sacha Brostoff, Ray Cooke (University of Southampton, UK)
Robert Stevens, Andrew Gibson (University of Manchester, UK)
Exploiting Context Histories in Setting up an E-Home
Johannes Helander (Microsoft Research, USA)
Conflict Resolution Method Utilizing Context History for Context-Aware Applications
Choonsung Shin, Woontack Woo (GIST U-VR Lab., Korea)

  Matthew Chalmers, Glasgow University, UK
  Mary Czerwinski, Microsoft Research, USA
  Anind Dey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  Tom Gross, Bauhaus University, Germany
  Oskar Juhlin, Interactive Institute, Sweden
  Nicky Kern, TU Darmstadt, Germany

  Antonio Krüger, University of Muenster, Germany
  Pattie Maes, MIT Media Lab, USA
  Maurice Mulvenna, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
  Yasuto Nakanishi, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
  Bernt Schiele, TU Darmstadt, Germany
  Albrecht Schmidt, University of Munich, Germany
  Norbert Streitz, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany
  Ulrike von Luxburg, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany
  Mark Weal, University of Southampton, UK

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