Pervasive or Postcolonial? The Need to Decolonise Ubicomp
This week’s paper, ‘Ubicomp’s Colonial Impulse’ by Dourish and Mainwaring takes on the world of Ubiquitous Computing (ubicomp) and seeks to challenge many …
Notes on Ubiquitous Computing’ Dominant Vision: Tomorrow Never Dies
Authors Bell and Dourish of ‘Yesterday’s Tomorrows: notes on ubiquitous computing’s dominant vision’ [1] write a call to reason for future researchers …
Down with the Empire: Review of ‘Ubicomp’s Colonial Impulse’
Much like its name implies, the current scope of Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) is all about going universal, or so suggests Dourish and …
HAY! What are you going to do with that Data?!!
Yvonne Rogers’s paper “Moving on from Weiser’s Vision of Calm Computing: Engaging UbiComp Experiences” is a revolt against the traditional . It is …
Are we cyberpunks yet?
Yesterday’s tomorrows: notes on ubiquitous computing’s dominant vision Genevieve Bell and Paul Dourish: Published 2006 Bell and Dourish’s Yesterday’s tomorrows was published …
A techno-utopia dismantled: Critical Review of “Ubicomp’s Colonial Impulse”
Dourish and Mainwaring’s paper claims that the research and development agenda of Ubicomp (ubiquitous computing) is essentially a colonial enterprise. In short, …
What is next for Ubiquitous Computing?
Writing this blog post was quite challenging because I personally have mixed have feelings in regards to ubiquitous computing. In his paper …
Agitating the calmed: exploring Rogers’ engagement agenda for ubiquitous computing
Yvonne Rogers’ 2006 paper advocates a new direction for ubiquitous computing (UbiComp) research that goes beyond Weiser’s “calm computing” vision to look …
Pervasive Consent
Luger & Rodden (2013) address the issue of consent in ubiquitous systems in their paper ‘An Informed View on Consent in Ubicomp’. …
The Future of Computing is Programming for Individuals in their Environments
In his 2012 paper, “What next, Ubicomp? Celebrating an intellectual disappearing act”, Gregory D. Abowd puts forward an exciting vision for the next …