This week’s reading is the seminal paper by the late Mark Weiser in which he introduces the field of pervasive computing. Mark Weiser worked at PARC.
1. Weiser, M. (1991) The computer for the 21st century. Scientific American, 94–104.
Available at http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/SciAmDraft3.html .
Additional reading/browsing:
Winograd, T. (1997) From computing machinery to interaction design. In Peter Denning and Robert Metcalfe (eds.), Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing, Springer-Verlag, 1997, 149-162. .
Available at http://hci.stanford.edu/~winograd/acm97.html .
Weiser, M. & Brown, J.S. (1996) The coming age of calm technology.
Available at: http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/acmfuture2endnote.htm.
This week will focus on tangible computing, examining how interactions with the physical world can be coupled with digital representations in novel ways.
1. Ishii, H., and Ulmer, B. (1997) Tangible bits: towards seamless interfaces between people, bits and atoms. In Proc. of CHI’97, ACM Press. 234-241.
Available at ACM digital library
2. Greenberg, S and Fitchett, C. (2001) Phidgets: Easy development of physical interfaces through physical widgets. In the Proceedings of the 14th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Orlando, Fl. pp. 209-218.
Available at http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/grouplab/papers/
Additional browsing/reading:
Rekimoto, J. (1997) Pick-and-drop: A direct manipulation technique for multiple computer digital devices. In Proc. of UIST’97, ACM, ACM Press, 31-40.
Available at ACM digital library
The MIT tangible media group, presenting their vision of ‘tangible bits’
http://tangible.media.mit.edu
Work by Rekimoto on datatiles
http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/rekimoto/datatile/
This class will cover the range of sensor technologies and how they have been applied in a particular work context.
1. M. Beigl, A. Krohn, T. Zimmer, C. Decker (2004) Typical Sensors needed in Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing". Proceedings of INSS 2004.
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/article/beigl04typical.html
2. Burrell, J., Brooke, T., Beckwith, R. (2004) Vineyard Computing: Sensor Networks in agricultural production, Pervasive Computing, 3(1), 38-45.
Available from IEEE Pervasive Computing site.
This class will look at how community care can be supported with pervasive and mobile computing and the ethical and privacy issues surrounding their use.
1. Mynatt, E., Melenhorst, A., Fisk, A.D., and Rogers, W. (2004) Aware technologies for aging in place: Understanding user needs and attitudes. Pervasive Computing, 36-41.
Available from IEEE Pervasive Computing site.
2. Ross, P. (2004) Managing Care through the Air. IEEE Spectrum, December 2004.
Download here
Additional Readings
Katie A. Siek, Kay H. Connelly and Yvonne Rogers. Pride and Prejudice: Learning how Chronically Ill People Think About Food. In the Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2006, pages 947-950.
Available from the ACM Digital Library.
Kay H. Connelly, Anne M. Faber, Yvonne Rogers, Katie A. Siek and Tammy Toscos. Mobile Applications that Empower People to Monitor their Personal Health. In Springer E&I.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/483t025165626237/
This week will cover research on mobile phone usage and how it is changing the way we communicate and play.
1. Raento, M., Oulasvirta, A., Petit, R. and Toivpnen, H. (2005) ContextPhone: A Prototyping Platform for Context-Aware Mobile Applications. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 4(2), 51-59.
Download here
2. Gaetano Borriello, Matthew Chalmers, Anthony LaMarca, and Paddy Nixon (2005) Delivering REAL-WORLD Ubiquitous Location Systems, CACM, 48(3), 36-41.
Available from the ACM digital library. Also a summary of this work can be found at http://www.seamful.com/
Additional Reading:
O'Hara, K. Harper, R. Unger, A. Sharpe, B. Wilkes, and J. Jansen, M. (2005) TxtBoard: From text-to-person to text-to-home, In Proc. of CHI 2005, ACM Press, 1705-1708.
Available from the ACM digital library.
Steve Benford, Duncan Rowland, Martin Flintham, Adam Drozd, Richard Hull, Josephine Reid, Jo Morrison and Keri Facer (2005) Life on the Edge: Supporting Collaboration in Location-Based Experiences. In CHI'05 Proceedings, 721-730.
Obtainable from ACM Digital Library
This week will cover mobile computing, focusing on the combined use of PDAs and GPS tracking.
1. Hightower, J. and Borriello, G. (2001) Location Systems for Ubiquitous Computing. In IEEE Computer, August 2001, 57-66.
Available from IIEEE.
2. Kjeldskov J., Skov M. B., Als B. S. and Høegh R. T. (2004) Is it Worth the Hassle? Exploring the Added Value of Evaluating the Usability of Context-Aware Mobile Systems in the Field . In Proceedings of the 6th International Mobile HCI 2004 conference. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Berlin, Springer-Verlag.
Can be obtained from http://www.springerlink.com/content/lb9vp65ftt4a686v/
Additional reading/browsing:
Mobile HCI conferences 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007
http://www.cs.strath.ac.uk/~mdd/mobilehci04/
http://mobilehci.icts.sbg.ac.at/
http://mobilehci.soberit.hut.fi/
http://www.mobilehci2007.org/
This week will cover the middleware needed to develop pervasive technologies and will cover a content-based messaging service, Elvin and system software for ubiquitous computing.
1. Sutton, P., Arkins, R. and Segall, B. (2001) Supporting Disconnectedness - Transparent Information Delivery for Mobile and Invisible Computing. In IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CRGrid'01).
Available at IEEE Computer Society
2. Kindberg, T. and Fox, A. (2002) System Software for Ubiquitous Computing. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 1 (1), 70-81.
Available from here
Additional readings:
Becker, C.et. al. (2004) PCOM - A Component System for Pervasive Computing. In the Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom).
Available here
Grimm, R. (2004) One.world: Experiences with a Pervasive Computing Architecture. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 3(3), 22-30.
Download here
Gibbons, P.B. et. al. (2003) IrisNet: An Architecture for a Worldwide Sensor Web. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2(4), 22-32.
http://www.intel-iris.net/papers/pervasive-03.pdf
This week will cover interactive shared surfaces describing a prototype sytem for tabletops (DiamondTouch) and a user study of a shared surface (Dynamo).
1. Brignull, H., Izadi, S, , Fitzpatrick, G., Rogers, Y. and Rodden, T. (2004) The Introduction of a Shared Interactive Surface into a Communal Space. In Proc. of CSCW 2004, Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, ACM Press. 49-58.
Available from ACM digital library.
2. Shen, C., Vernier, F.D., Forlines, C. and Ringel, M. (2004) DiamondSpin: An Extensible Toolkit for Around-the-Table Interaction, In ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2004).
Available from ACM digital library and http://www.merl.com/people/shen/
Additional readings:
Shahram Izadi, Harry Brignull, Tom Rodden, Yvonne Rogers and Mia Underwood (2003) Dynamo: A public interactive surface supporting the cooperative sharing and exchange of media. In Proceedings of UIST’03.
Available from the ACM digital library.
Ronby-Pederson, E. et al (1993) Tivoli: an electronic whiteboard for informal workgroup meetings. In CHI Proc’93, 391-398.
Available from the ACM digital library.
Streitz, N.A., Tandler, P., Muller-Tomfelde, C. and Konomi, S. (2002) Toward the next generation of human-computer interaction based on an integrated design of real and virtual worlds. In J. Carroll (ed), Human-Computer Interaction in the New Millennium, Addison-Wesley, 553-578.
Available at the ACM digital library.
This week will discuss context-aware computing in the home and on the go.
1. Sven Meyer & Andry Rakotonirainy (2003) A survey of research on context-aware homes In Proceedings of the Australasian information security workshop conference on ACSW frontiers, ACM Press, 21, 159 – 168.
Available at http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=828005
2. Ashraf Khalil & Kay Connelly (2006) Context-aware Telephony: Privacy Preferences and Sharing Patterns, Ashraf Khalil and Kay Connelly. Proceedings of Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW), November 2006.
Available at http://www.cs.indiana.edu/surg/Publications/cscw06.pdf
Additional reading:
Dourish, P. (2004) What We Talk About When We Talk About Context. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 8(1), 19-30.
Available at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jpd/publications.shtml
Jiang, X., N.Y. Chen, J.I. Hong, K. Wang, L.A. Takayama, and Landay, J.A. (2004) Siren: Context-aware Computing for Firefighting. In the Proceedings of Second International Conference on Pervasive Computing.
Available from ACM digital library and the Siren website http://guir.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/siren/
This class will focus on novel applications that have been developed for supporting learning and playing, examining contrasting approaches. Yvonne Rogers will be a guest speaker.
1. Rogers, Y., Price, S., Fitzpatrick, G., Fleck, R., Harris, E., Smith, H., Randell, C., Muller, H., O’Malley, C., Stanton, D., Thompson, M. and Weal, M. (2004) Ambient Wood: Designing new forms of digital augmentation for learning outdoors. In Proc. Interaction Design and Children, ACM. 1-8.
Available from the ACM digital library.
2. Why it's Worth the Hassle: A Case Study in Using In-Situ Studies during Design, Yvonne Rogers, Kay Connelly, Lenore Tedesco, William Hazlewood, Andrew J. Kurtz, Bob E. Hall, Josh Hursey and Tammy Toscos. To appear in the Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Ubiquitous
Computing (UBICOMP), September, 2007.
Available here
Additional Reading:
Yuanchun Shi, Weikai Xie, Guangyou Xu, Runting Shi, Enyi Chen, Yanhua Mao, and Fang Liu (2003) The Smart Classroom: Merging Technologies for Seamless Tele-Education. Pervasive Computing, April-June 2003, 47-55.
Available at http://csdl.computer.org/comp/mags/pc/2003/02/b2toc.htm
1. Gaver, W., Dunne, T., Pacenti, E.:Cultural Probes and the value of uncertainty. In Interactions, 11:5, 2004, 53-56
Available at ACM digital library.
2. Consolvo, S. and Walker, M.:Using the experience sampling method to evaluate Ubicomp applications. In IEEE Computing Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems, 2:2 (2003), 24-31
Available from IEEE
This class will look at frameworks for evaluating pervasive computing applications by looking at an attempt to standardize the evaluation lexicon and a model predict to predict user acceptance.
1. Jean Scholtz and Sunny Consolvo. (2004) Toward a Framework for Evaluating Ubiquitous Computing Applications. In IEEE Pervasive Computing, April-June 2004, 82-88.
Available from IEEE
2. Kay Connelly. Towards a Pervasive Technology Acceptance Model. Submitted for publication.
Available here
This class will look at a recent paper which moves beyond Weiser’s original vision of pervasive computing.
1. Yvonne Rogers. (2006) Moving on from Weiser's Vision of Calm Computing: Engaging UbiComp
Experiences.
Available here