What next, Ubicomp? Celebrating an intellectual disappearing act
According to the paper, Gregory thinks that the discipline of ubiquitous/pervasive computing has spread so widely throughout the computing world, that it …
Identity Crisis of Ubicomp? Mapping 15 years of the Field’s Development and Paradigm Change
Does the field of the Ubicomp really face its identity crisis? Has the field becoming fragmented rather than cohesive? The concerns about …
Moving on from Weiser’s Vision of Calm Computing: Engaging UbiComp Experiences (2006)
Rogers sets out by explaining the trajectory of UbiComp; and the vision, focus and direction of the field. She argues that whilst …
Ubicomp is dead! Long live (ubiquitous) computing!
We are coming to the end of an era – like the Moore’s law is ending or becoming irrelevant [1] the same …
Moving on from Weiser’s Vision of Calm Computing: Engaging UbiComp Experiences
This week’s paper ‘does what it says on the tin’. The tin in this case being the title. Author Yvonne Rogers’ approach …
Back to the Future of Ubicomp
In his 2012 publication titled “What next, Ubicomp? Celebrating an intellectual disappearing act” [1] Gregory D. Abowd revises 21 years of ubicomp …
Yesterday’s tomorrows: notes on ubiquitous computing’s dominant vision (2006)
Yesterday’s tomorrows: notes on ubiquitous computing’s dominant vision (2006) The dominant vision at the heart of this paper is, unsurprisingly, Weiser’s hugely …
Yesterday’s tomorrows
This week’s paper by Bell and Dourish [1] critiques the extent that Weiser’s foundational 1991 ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) article [2] was correct …
Stuart Nicholson: Moving on from Weiser’s Vision of Calm Computing
The paper firstly explores the scope of ubiquitous computing as envisioned by the now considered “forefather”, Mark Weiser who coined the phrase …
Liu Y. (2014) Identity Crisis of Ubicomp? Nonsense!
Paper: Identity Crisis of Ubicomp? Mapping 15 Years of the Field’s Development and Paradigm Change (2014) Author(s): Yong Liu et al. The authors have ambitiously set themselves the task of “mapping 15 years of the field’s development and …
Abowd, G. (2012) What next, Ubicomp? Celebrating an intellectual disappearing act
In ‘What Next, Ubicomp?’ Abowd argues that the study of ubiquitous computing – Ubicomp – faces an identity crisis. Put simply ‘ubiquitous …
Dan’s review of week 3 paper: “Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Notes on ubiquitous computing’s dominant vision”
In this paper, Bell and Dourish discuss the direction that ubicomp had been taking since the field’s inception. The authors point out …
Moving on from Weiser’s Vision of Calm Computing: Engaging UbiComp Experiences
In this paper, Yvonne Rogers encourages the field of ubiquitous computing to move away from a sole focus on ‘calm computing’ to …
The development of Ubicomp
Our previous readings that looked at researching practices and new frameworks for participatory design were all responses to changes being made in …
Tag’s review on: Yesterday’s tomorrows
Here I will review an interesting topic in a paper entitled: “Yesterday’s tomorrows: notes on ubiquitous computing’s dominant vision “ by Genevieve Bell. …