1. Ubiquitous Computing
Scott Klemmer
06 October 2005

2. Ubiquitous Computing networked
…but to make the world “calmer”, not to connect your faucet to your cell phone
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3. “for every ant in the world today there are 100 transistors”
- Gordon Moore, 2003
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4. Computing by the inch, foot, & yard
At each scale, the devices have input, computation, and output
Different than more recent work (e.g., that of Abowd et al) where these elements are often decoupled
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5. http://nano.xerox.com/hypertext/weiser/UbiMovies.html 07 October 2004
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6. Rem Koolhaas: S M L XL
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7. Computing by the inch, foot, & yard
Originally: ParcTabs
Today
Palm Handhelds
Smart Phones
model: add computation to the device that is already networked
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8. Computing by the inch, foot, & yard
ParcPads
Today: Tablet Computers
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9. Computing by the inch, foot, & yard
LiveBoards
Today: SMART Boards
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10. Privacy Dog food / kool aid Danyel Fisher and email
The nurses in east bay express
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11. Evaluation
With embodied virtuality, “tasks” aren’t as discrete, and evaluation (both methods and metrics) is much harder
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12. Foreground & Background Interaction
Buxton 1980s
Hinckley TOCHI
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13. Mobile: What actually happened
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14. Making Sense of Sensing Systems
Bellotti et al., CHI 2002
When I address a system, how does it know I am addressing it?
When I ask a system to do something how do I know it is attending?
When I issue a command (such as save, execute or delete), how does the system know what it relates to?
How do I know the system understands my command and is correctly executing my intended action?
How do I recover from mistakes?
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15. At Home with Ubiquitous Computing
Edwards & Grinter, Ubicomp 2001
The "Accidentally" Smart Home
Impromptu Interoperability
No Systems Administrator
Designing for Domestic Use
Social Implications of Aware Home Technologies
Reliability
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16. Unpacking Privacy
Dourish and Palen, CHI
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17. Further Reading General Ubicomp Privacy
Bellotti et al, Making Sense of Sensing Systems
Tolmie et al, Unremarkable computing (Equator Workshop)
Edwards & Grinter Ubicomp
Privacy
Heinrich et al, Privacy by Design (Ubicomp 01)
Dourish & Palen, Unpacking "privacy" for a networked world (CHI 2003)
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