Human Centric Technology and Service in Smart Space, 2012 HumanCom 2012 Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering Series, Vol. 182

The theme of HumanCom is focused on the various aspects of human-centric computing for advances in computer science and its applications and provides an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss the latest issues and progress in the area of human-centric computing.

In addition, the conference will publish high quality papers which are closely related to the various theories and practical applications in human-centric computing. Furthermore, we expect that the conference and its publications will be a trigger for further related research and technology improvements in this important subject.

Human-computer interaction and User-centered Design.- Social computing and social intelligence.- Ubiquitous computing and mobile systems.- Gaming.- Computer-assisted Learning and Cognition.- Privacy, Security and trust management.- Human-centered Evaluation.- Information Visualization and Visual Analytics.- Embedded Systems and Software.- Dependable, Reliable and Autonomic Computing.- Embedded Smart Agents.- Context awareness and inference.- Multi modal interaction design.- U/E-Healthcare Services.- Virtual Humans & Virtual Worlds.- Wearables sensors and actuators.- Grid and Cloud Computing.- Mobile Device and Smartphone.- Smart Learning Services.- Social Media and Collaborative Systems.- Data Mining for Human-Com.- Information Services for an Aging Society.- Recommender Systems for Human-Com.- Speech in Interactive Computing.- Virtual Reality Software and Technology.

Jong Hyuk Park received his Ph.D. degree in Graduate School of Information Security from Korea University, Korea. From December, 2002 to July, 2007, Dr. Park had been a research scientist of R&D Institute, Hanwha S&C Co., Ltd., Korea. From September, 2007 to August, 2009, He had been a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungnam University, Korea. He is now a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech), Korea. Dr. Park has published about 100 research papers in international journals and conferences. He has been serving as chairs, program committee, or organizing committee chair for many international conferences and workshops. He is President of the Future Technology Research Association International (FTRA) and Korea Information Technology Convergence Society (KITCS). He is editor-in-chief of International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC), InderScience and Journal of Convergence (JoC),  FTRA Publishing. He is Associate Editor / Editor of 14 international journals including 8 journals indexed by SCI(E). In addition, he has been serving as a Guest Editor for international journals by some publishers: Springer, Elsevier, John Wiley, Oxford Univ. press, Hindawi, Emerald, Inderscience. His research interests include security and digital forensics, ubiquitous and pervasive computing, context awareness, multimedia services, etc. He got the best paper award in ISA-08 conference and the outstanding leadership awards from IEEE HPCC-09 and ICA3PP-10. Dr. Park's research interests include Digital Forensics, Security, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing, Context Awareness, Multimedia Service, etc. He is a member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, KIPS, KICS, KIISC, KMMS, KDFS and KIIT.

Qun Jin received the B.S. Degree from Zhejiang University, China in 1982, the M.S. Degree fromHangzhou Inst