Today Final Presentation Ubiquitous Computing Project Report - - PDF document

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Ubiquitous Computing

TDA471

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Today

• Final Presentation
• Project Report
• Paper Presentations

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Final Presentation

• December 19

– 9-16 – Torg 2

• 9-12

– Oral presentations, 30 minutes each

• 13-16

– Exhibition for all interested

• Invite people!

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Exhibition Part

• Display your prototype

– Should be testable – Try to create a context

• Explain your prototype

– Poster – By being there

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Project Report

• Two parts

– Web site – Written report

• As a download from web site
• Deadline 21/12
• Course home page contains info

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Web Site

• Explain the project for a wide audience
• Should contain at least

– Short abstract in Swedish and English – Description of the project – Video (if there is one) – Pictures and/or powerpoint – Downloads of source code, technical specifications etc, required to re-create the project.

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Web Site

• Must be on Chalmers’ server
• Path to your space
• /chalmers/groups/uc07-1
• /chalmers/groups/uc07-2
• …
• Servers
• remote1.studat.chalmers.se
• remote2.studat.chalmers.se
• …

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Web Site

• Mount in Windows

– \\file.chalmers.se\uc07-1 – \\file.chalmers.se\uc07-1

• …
• GUI Tools for remote access

– WinSCP – Fugu

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Web Site

• Web site in directory www
• Group directory will only appear if you

actually request it

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Written Report

• Should contain

– project concept – an introduction to the context of your design, – main goals of the project, – possible related work, – the design process and critical design decisions made, – how the project was realized, including a description of the technology behind it,

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Written report

• Should contain, continued

– evaluation against goals, – discussion; what worked, what did not, possible improvements, interesting findings,... – conclusion, lessons learned, – technical documentation, as appendix, – project plan as appendix.

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Possible Outline

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Background
• 3. Concept
• 4. Realisation
• 5. Evaluation
• 6. Related Work
• 7. Discussion
• 8. Appendix: Technical documentation and project

plan

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Possible Outline 2

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Concept
• 3. Realisation
• 4. Evaluation
• 5. Related Work
• 6. Discussion
• 7. Appendix: Technical documentation and project

plan

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Papers

• Theme: Place, Space and Context

– Re-Place-ing Space: The Roles of Place and Space in Collaborative Systems – The is more to context than location – Multi-Sensor Context-Awareness in Mobile Devices and Smart Artefacts

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Re-Place-ing Space: The Roles of Place and Space in Collaborative Systems

• Key point
• Dsign for place not space

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Context

• Published 1996
• CSCW
• MUDS
• Collaborative environments

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Mantra

• Space is the opportunity; place is the

understood reality

– About taking sociological issues into account – Borrow from architecture etc – Implications for design – Minor points, e.g. privacy is not absolute

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Place

• a place is a space which is invested with

understandings of behavioural appropriateness

• House - home
• Conference Hall - Concert Hall
• Community Hall
• Out of place - not out of space

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Space

• Spatiality is important
• Shared Knowledge

– Relational orientation and reciprocity. – Proximity and action – Partitioning – Presence and awareness

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Place is In Space

• Places derive from their spatiality
• But also call up cultural understandings

which help us to frame our behaviour

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Place in Social Analysis

• what these analysts point to in human action

is the how it is framed not only by spaces, but by the pattern of understandings, associations and expectations with which they are infused

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Place in the Built Environment

• Place, as we have described it here, is a central

concern for architects and urban designers.

• architects and urban designers are concerned not

simply with designing three-dimensional structures (spaces), but with places for people to

• be. For them, the idea of place derives from a

tension between connectedness and distinction

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More Quotes

• Placeness is created and sustained by

patterns of use; it's not something we can design in...can design for it

• idea of a sense of place--a communally-

held sense of appropriate behaviour, and a context for engaging in and interpreting

• action. This is essentially a cultural

phenomenon

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Space-less places

• The distinction between ``space'' and ``place'' is

perhaps most strongly demonstrated by examples

• f the emergence of place without notions of
• space. Earlier, we introduced the concept of place

as space invested with social meaning. The spaces can be computational, as well as physical. What remains is the tension between connectedness and distinction which leads to placefulness

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Space-less places

• On-line multiplayer games?
• Communities
• Forums
• MUDS
• USENET
• …

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Ubiquitous Computing

• Computation in space
• Distributed
• Everyware
• Essence of paper: Must take place into

account

• Study and design for actual social

environment

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Rubrics for Design

• Spaces are not places
• Places, not spaces, frame appropriate

behaviour

• Places have social meaning
• Different media have different spatial

properties.

• Space is the opportunity; place is the

understood reality

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The Rest?

• Influential paper
• Makes important points

– Design for place - not space – There can be places without place

• Details about MUDS, Usenet etc somewhat

dated

• Read in context

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Next Week

• Discussion seminar
• Read the papers