Ubiquitous Computing

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Ubiquitous Computing

• Scott Klemmer
• 07 October 2004

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Administrivia

• Project pairings (with emails) are online
• 1 page proposals due to cs376_at_cs by Monday at
  noon
• Summary emails 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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Ubiquitous Computing

• networked
• networked
• networked
• but to make the world calmer, not to connect
  your faucet to your cell phone

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• for every ant in the world today there are 100
  transistors
• - Gordon Moore

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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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Rem Koolhaas S M L XL
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Computing by the inch, foot, yard

• Originally ParcTabs
• Today
• Palm Handhelds
• Smart Phones
• model add computation to thedevice that is
  already networked

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Computing by the inch, foot, yard

• ParcPads
• Today Tablet Computers

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Computing by the inch, foot, yard

• LiveBoards
• Today SMART Boards

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Privacy

• Dog food / kool aid
• Danyel Fisher and email
• The nurses in east bay express

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Evaluation

• With embodied virtuality, tasks arent as
  discrete, and evaluation (both methods and
  metrics) is much harder

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Further Reading

• General Ubicomp
• 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)