ubiquitous computing marcia lee april 10, 2008
moving towards everyday things
tolkien and ubicomp?
weiser comparison with writing “cease to be aware” “fade into the background” focusing on the goal and not the tool to achieve it
weiser (cont’d) location scale tabs (active badges) pads (“scrap computers”) boards (“live boards”) “embodied virtuality will make individuals more aware of the people on the other ends of their computer links”
abowd and mynatt natural interfaces context-aware capture and access handwriting, speech, gestures context-aware active badges, tour guide systems capture and access audio/video recording and bookmarking
abowd and mynatt (cont’d) everyday computing “continuously present, integrative, and unobtrusive interaction” noting time as an important aspect of interaction concurrency and context switching interruptions of various urgency social implications
common ideas in the critiques weiser’s prediction (accuracy and desirability) thoughts on the “sal” narrative keyboard as “natural” too ubicomp + cscw privacy, security, pollution