1. Ubiquitous Computing
Scott Klemmer
07 October 2004

2. Administrivia Project pairings (with emails) are online
1 page proposals due to by Monday at noon
Summary s are great!
You are welcome to make these more personal, i.e., “I got a new research idea from this” or “their findings resonated with me because of…”
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3. Ubiquitous Computing networked
…but to make the world “calmer”, not to connect your faucet to your cell phone
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4. “for every ant in the world today there are 100 transistors”
- Gordon Moore
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5. 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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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. Further Reading General Ubicomp Privacy
Bellotti et al, Making Sense of Sensing Systems
Tolmie et al, Unremarkable computing (Equator Workshop)
Privacy
Heinrich et al, Privacy by Design (Ubicomp 01)
Dourish & Palen, Unpacking "privacy" for a networked world (CHI 2003)
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