An overview of Ubiquitous Computing

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An overview of UbiquitousComputing

• - For beginners-

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Contents

• Literal meaning of Ubiquitous
• Mark Weiser and his visions
• The periphery
• Related research areas and projects
• Summary

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What is Ubiquitous?

• Ubiquitous usually before noun (formal or
  humorous) seeming to be everywhere or in several
  places at the same time very common - Oxford
  Advanced Learners dictionary

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Mark Weiser

• The third wave, just beginning, has many
  computers serving each person everywhere in the
  world. I call this last wave

ubiquitous computing or ubicomp by
Mark Weiser in Open House
March 1996
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Mark Weisers vision

• Full time connection to the network
• Invisible to human
• Interoperating between components
• Disappearing computing(or Calm Technology)
• Supporting human activities through integrating
  IT and the world we live in invisibly

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Which is Ubicomp and which is not?
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Peripheral Vision

• think about the military training
• you cant see detail clearly only with peripheral
  vision

• But!! your peripheral vision is very sensitive to
  motion and it covers wider range
• you can tell a car is coming to your way without
  a stare

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The Periphery
Ring

• Being familiar with information so that you can
  understand or recognize them easily and response
  in an appropriate way

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So what can we expect from Ubicomp?

• The most profound technologies are those that
  disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric
  of everyday life until they are indistinguishable
  from it.
• Dwelling with computers, they become part of the
  informing environment, like weather, like street
  sounds.

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Research Areas

• Context-Aware
• The Rubicon
• Interoperatability
• Seamless
• Ontology
• Privacy

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Remaining questions

• Artificial Intelligent
• Voice RecognitionVoice DictationNLP
• Whats wrong with being SMART?

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Related Project?
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Ultimate Goal

• may differ from each other depending on the point
  of view each has but possible explanations are
• integration of virtual and physical worlds
  through invisible technology
• overall mobility and freedom it allows its users

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Summary

• Ubicomp can be an effective way to overcome
  information overload with more information.
• Attuned to more information with less attention.
  (think of the periphery)