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Ubiquitous Computing Visions
Boris Smus
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Who cares about vision?
ubiquitous computing is unusual amongst technological research arenas how? quote from Genevieve Bell and Paul Dourish
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Ubiquitous Computing Visions Boris Smus Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Ubiquitous Computing Visions Boris Smus Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Ubiquitous Computing Visions Boris Smus Tuesday, March 16, 2010 Who cares about vision? ubiquitous computing is unusual amongst technological research arenas how? quote from Genevieve Bell and Paul Dourish Tuesday, March 16, 2010 Structure of
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Structure of the lecture
the original vision refinements and criticisms
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History of computing
mainframes (many-to-one) personal computing (one to one)
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Mark Weiser
father of ubiquitous computing chief scientist at Xerox PARC in the United States had the original ubiquitous computing vision (circa 1991)
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The vision
computer computer computer computer computer ubicomp (one-to-many)
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The vision
ubicomp (one-to-many)
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What ubiquitous computing is
go beyond the traditional user interface integrate into the real physical world small location aware computers, networked invisible
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What ubiquitous computing is not
virtual reality ubiquitous computing
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Calm computing
- ne person, many computers
sounds stressful Weiser: adding more tech for a better experience
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Tabs, pads and boards
basic form factors in ubiquitous computing tabs — PDAs, phones, employee badges, RFIDs, keychains pads — paper, laptops, books boards — video screens, bulletin boards, windows
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Example: Sal’s world
a fictional world to better illustrate ubiquitous computing concepts core features from exerpt
- everything has a computer built in (intelligent alarm)
- the computers are relatively simple (yes and no are the only words)
- the computers are networked (alerted by restless sleep)
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Are we there yet?
Weiser’s anticipated cross-over: 2005 — 2020 modern computing: one person to several computers we’re still far from Sal’s world hidden computers are everywhere, but not really networked
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Has the vision changed?
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In summary
Weiser’s vision is important led to clarity in a futurist-inspired field suggested new research directions
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One more thing
Weiser was a drummer in Severe Tire Damage (STD)
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How’s everyone doing?
Just checking :)
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Modern ubiquitous computing
evolving Mark’s vision
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Criticism #1: the ubicomp vision is too general
the research direction needs to change
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Disciplines in ubiquitous computing
context-aware computing ambient intelligence tracking and monitoring
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Limited success: BlueEyes
research question: How can we make computers "see" and "feel"? “The success of the BlueEyes project, however, was limited; an example of an achievement that is posted on its website is of a television that would turn itself
- n when a person in the room made eye contact with it. To turn it off, the
person could ‘tell’ it to switch off.” -- Yvonne Rogers
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Suggestion: get concrete
“improve existing experiences with ubiquitous computing” playing and learning in a mixed physical-virtual space self-monitoring and behavioral change
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Examples (playing and learning)
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Examples (behavioral change)
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Criticism #2: calm computing is a pipe dream
and ubicomp is already here
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Singapore
SMS to hail cabs, 95% of population owns a cell distributed poll road pricing high internet penetration
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Singapore is not calm, says Genevieve Bell
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Criticism #3: ubicomp has a negative social impact
ubicomp encourages complacency and spawns privacy issues
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Privacy issues
ubicomp: a lot of computers are always watching what if someone malicious manages to get access to the computers in our sphere? how would we know? privacy issues of today are compounded
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Sal’s world?
do we want to live there? too much computer dependency already do we want more? comparison to Victorian England
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Criticism #4: ubicomp is retro-futurism
why don’t we have ubicomp yet?
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this is retro-futurism
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Bell asks some tough questions
twenty years after Weiser and 10,000 times the computing power later...
- 1. why is our vision still the same as Weiser’s?
- 2. why isn’t ubicomp here yet?
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maybe ubicomp is inherently unattainable?
ubicomp?
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thanks for listening
questions?
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