CS8113g: Introduction

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CS 7470
Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
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Agenda

• Introductions
• Classroom technology
• Motivation for course
• Topics
• Course requirements
• Assignments for next week

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Introductions

• Instructors
• Elizabeth Mynatt
• Thad Starner
• TA
• Kent Lyons

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Use of technology

• Classroom 2000
• capture of lecture notes
• experimental searching interfaces
• CoWeb
• collaborative discussions of material
• linking capture and discussion

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Homework

• Who are you?
• Use the CoWeb

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Motivation for the course

• Computing is spreading
• Move to anytime/anywhere
• true ubiquity of service
• Where are we?
• Where are we heading?

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Terminology

• Ubiquitous
• www.your-name-here.com existing or being
  everywhere at the same time constantly
  encountered widespread
• omnipresent, all over, universal, constantly
  available
• pervasive to the point of subconscious

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How to achieve ubiquity?

• Make computing available beyond desktop
• Make it mobile and connected
• Instrument the person
• Instrument the physical surroundings

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Related areas

• Wearable computing
• Intelligent environments
• Augmented reality
• All will be referred to by umbrella term of
  Ubiquitous Computing (ubicomp)

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Objectives

• Understand important historical precedents
• Identify critical technologies
• Obtain necessary research skills

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Topics for course

• Who has contributed using what technology for
  what purposes?
• history and vision
• emerging technologies and solutions
• application themes

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History and Vision

• seminal definitions of ubicomp
• visions of future from the past

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Physical limits of computing

• where are the barriers
• heat and power
• then look to critical technologies

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Networking

• basics
• wireless technologies, RF, IR, paging, cellular
• emerging standards

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Output

• heads-up, handheld, very hi-res, paper displays,
  low power, wallpaper/stereoscopic, kenotropic

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Input

• sensing (lots of it)
• non-keyboard/mouse
• pen, voice, gesture, vision

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Software Engineering

• Jini and related software for appliances
• lightweight integration techniques

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Application themes

• Automated capture
• Context-awareness
• Wearables
• Everyday computing
• Environment-specific
• home, office, classroom, campus

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Missing topics?

• Evaluation
• see CS 6455 (Newstetter)
• Interface software
• see CS 6456 (MacIntyre)
• Suggestions?
• Feel free to add these to CoWeb

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Format

• This is a research course, so you must contribute
• in lectures
• by going in depth on some topics
• by teaching others how to
• by working together on applications

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Student requirements

• Research
• prepare for lectures (20)
• pre-lecture reading summaries
• post-lecture follow-up
• extended research paper (15)
• based on one lecture topic
• extend references

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Student requirements (contd)

• Practical
• how-to tutorial on one technology (15)
• project using a critical technology (40)
• project proposal
• initial design and technology feasibility
• implementation and evaluation
• plus 2 in-class presentations

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Student requirements (contd)

• Overall
• assist in assessment of others work (10)
• mainly via CoWeb

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This class is a work in progress

• Your input can help guide the course
• Instructors dont know everything

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History and Vision Readings

• Bush memex
• Licklider man-computer symbiosis
• Engelbart augmenting human intellect
• Sutherland Sketchpad and VR
• Kay Goldberg Personal dynamic media (handout)
• Weiser SciAm Ubicomp intro
• Rheingold Tools for thought chapters
• Ch 7, 9, 11, 12

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Upcoming

• Thursday
• History overview
• CoWeb
• assign power and heat papers
• Next Tuesday
• history panel
• Thursday
• physical limitations (power)