Positioning -- Virtual Compass: Relative Positioning to Sense Mobile Social Interactions -- The Geography of Taste: Analyzing Cell-Phone Mobility and Social Events -- Indoor Positioning Using GPS Revisited -- Navigation and Tracking -- Specification and Verification of Complex Location Events with Panoramic -- Tactile Wayfinder: Comparison of Tactile Waypoint Navigation with Commercial Pedestrian Navigation Systems -- Applications -- Jog Falls: A Pervasive Healthcare Platform for Diabetes Management -- EyeCatcher: A Digital Camera for Capturing a Variety of Natural Looking Facial Expressions in Daily Snapshots -- TreasurePhone: Context-Sensitive User Data Protection on Mobile Phones -- Tools, Modelling -- Recruitment Framework for Participatory Sensing Data Collections -- Out of the Lab and into the Fray: Towards Modeling Emotion in Everyday Life -- The Secret Life of Machines – Boundary Objects in Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul -- Studies -- Automatic Assessment of Cognitive Impairment through Electronic Observation of Object Usage -- Further into the Wild: Running Worldwide Trials of Mobile Systems -- Studying the Use and Utility of an Indoor Location Tracking System for Non-experts -- Activity Recognition -- Object-Based Activity Recognition with Heterogeneous Sensors on Wrist -- GasSense: Appliance-Level, Single-Point Sensing of Gas Activity in the Home -- Transferring Knowledge of Activity Recognition across Sensor Networks -- Sensing -- Common Sense Community: Scaffolding Mobile Sensing and Analysis for Novice Users -- Active Capacitive Sensing: Exploring a New Wearable Sensing Modality for Activity Recognition -- Using Height Sensors for Biometric Identification in Multi-resident Homes -- Resource Awareness -- Supporting Energy-Efficient Uploading Strategies for Continuous Sensing Applications on Mobile Phones -- Efficient Resource-Aware Hybrid Configuration of Distributed Pervasive Applications -- Interaction -- 12Pixels: Exploring Social Drawing on Mobile Phones -- No-Look Notes: Accessible Eyes-Free Multi-touch Text Entry -- On the Use of Brain Decoded Signals for Online User Adaptive Gesture Recognition Systems.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Pervasive 2010, held in Helsinki, Finland, in May 2010. The 24 full papers and one note presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 157 submissions. The contributions are grouped into the following topical sections: positioning, navigation and tracking, applications, tools and modelling, studies, activity recognition, sensing, resource awareness, and interaction.