1. ubiquitous computing
marcia lee
april 10, 2008

2. moving towards everyday things

4. tolkien and ubicomp?

5. weiser comparison with writing “cease to be aware”
“fade into the background”
focusing on the goal and not the tool to achieve it

6. 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”

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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