Liz: October 2003 Archives

Ubicomp: Domestic environments

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"Playing with the Bits": User-configuration of Ubiquitous Domestic Environments (TECHNOTE)
Andy Crabtree2, Terry Hemmings2, Karl-Petter Åkesson1, Boriana Koleva2, Tom Rodden2, and Pär Hansson1
1 SICS, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, 2 MRL Lab, Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham

The future home will be one of continual reconfiguration and created in piecemeal fashion.

project uses a jigsaw graphic metaphor to link sensors and actuators together

...from my admittedly sketchy notes. The laptop battery died midway through this session.

Ubicomp: New interfaces

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People were really into this talk. I didn't see it, but here are Michele's notes.

Context-Aware Computing with Sound (FULL PAPER)
Anil Madhavapeddy1, David Scott2, and Richard Sharp3
1 Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 2 Laboratory for Communication Engineering, University of Cambridge, 3 Intel Research, Cambridge

Ubicomp: domestic environments

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Ubicomp: Domestic environments

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From Michele...

New Perspectives on Ubiquitous Computing from Ethnographic Study of Elders with Cognitive Decline (FULL PAPER)
Margaret Morris, Jay Lundell, Eric Dishman, and Brad Needham
Proactive Health, Intel Research

Ubicomp: Domestic environments

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The Kinko's Connection

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In conversation with E.C., I remembered an essay I hadn't read for years: "Kinko's and The Connection". Back in the day (ie, 1997), the sacramental mystery of the transformation of pixels to toner was my central concern. Since then, I've mostly left the world of CMYK. I miss the irreversibility of print. I miss the way toner reproduces inexactly, runs out, fades, smears. I know printouts aren't supposed to have what Benjamin would call an "aura" - but there's nothing really like feeding meltable plastic into a copier that costs more than you make in a year and waiting to see what comes out on the other end. I remember it fondly, I do.

When you place an "original" in the feeder of a copier you expect versions of that document to reproduce as closely to the original as possible. The truth of the document is determined by the quality of the copy. Yet Kinko's usually produces as many mistakes as it can quality copies. The Connection phenomena functions as one form of "mistake" in the massive production apparatus of Kinko's. Barter transactions, copyright violations, the kinds of customers who use Kinko's Connections, are the inevitable noise of a reproductive model of Kinko's business. The improper circumstances of my Kinko's experience lead me to an improper understanding of Kinko's philosophy: play instead of work, mutation instead of replication, barter instead of money transactions, toxic instead of a "clean" layout, and, most importantly, deformation over information.

Ubicomp Wednesday

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...feeling really low energy. I've had three shots of espresso today and I still can't quite focus.

Addendum: Notwithstanding my total exhaustion, I had pretty strong feelings about this session. I felt that it was misleadingly titled, since only one paper dealt critically with the social aspects of privacy. My comments are in brackets, to distinguish them from my summaries of the presenters' arguments.

Can Ubicomp come out and play?

Mobile Play: Blogging, Tagging, and Messaging

Moderator
Eric Paulos (Intel Research, Berkeley)

Panelists
Barry Brown (University of Glasgow)
Bill Gaver (Royal College of Art)
Marc Smith (Microsoft Research)
Nina Wakeford (University of Surrey)

Ubiquitous computing, by its very definition, aspires to weave computing technologies across the fabric of our everyday lives. Many of the successes and failures encountered during the pursuit of ubiquitous computing will be dictated by the manifest integration of play. It is play that helps us cope with the past, understand the present, and prepare for the future. This panel of experts is passionately interested in engaging in a critical dialogue around the applicability, adoption, and consequences of such elements of play in ubiquitous computing research. As motivation, several tremendously popular ubiquitous computing themes with playful elements will be examined: blogging, tagging, and message play.

Ubicomp town meeting

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We're using Bill Griswold's ActiveClass software for a backchannel. About a third of the people here have laptops, but unfortunately there are very few outlets. It has been explained to me that this is because "it's rude to use your laptop while people are speaking," which seems, well, odd in a ubiquitous computing, but I understand the impulse. I myself go ballistic when people have their lids up while I'm speaking in public.

...The extended entry has a bunch of notes. I couldn't deal so I decided to leave midway through.

Ubicomp new devices

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Very Low-Cost Sensing and Communication Using Bidirectional LEDs (FULL PAPER)
Paul Dietz, William Yerazunis, and Darren Leigh
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

Lovely idea for using bidirectional LEDs for communication.

Ubicomp: Context Awareness

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Is Context-Aware Computing Taking Control Away from the User? Three Levels of Interactivity Examined (TECHNOTE)
Louise Barkhuus1 and Anind Dey2
1 The IT University of Copenhagen, 2 Intel Research Berkeley

Ubicomp: Context-awareness

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liquid: Context-Aware Distributed Queries (TECHNOTE)
Jeffrey Heer, Alan Newberger, Chris Beckmann, and Jason I. Hong
Group for User Interface Research, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley

Ubicomp: Context Awareness

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AwareCon: Situation Aware Context Communication (TECHNOTE)
Michael Beigl, Albert Krohn, Tobias Zimmer, Christian Decker, and Philip Robinson
TecO, University of Karlsruhe

Ubicomp: Context Awareness

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Secure Spontaneous Device Association (TECHNOTE)
Tim Kindberg and Kan Zhang
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

Ubicomp: Context-awareness

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Context-Aware User Authentication - Supporting Proximity-Based Login in Pervasive Computing (FULL PAPER)
Jakob E. Bardram, Rasmus E. Kjær, and Michael Ø. Pedersen
Centre for Pervasive Computing, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus

RDF Tuesday!

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Nice explanation of the ideas behind the semantic web project

...And from boingboing, an idea whose time came about a year ago, when I was late to a job interview because the NYC subway is an untrustworthy, deceitful beast.

Ubicomp: modelling and inference

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Activity Zones for Context-Aware Computing (FULL PAPER)
Kimberle Koile1, Konrad Tollmar2, David Demirdjian2, Howard Shrobe1, and Trevor Darrell2

Ubicomp: Modelling and Inference

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Inferring High-Level Behavior from Low-Level Sensors (FULL PAPER)
Donald J. Patterson, Lin Liao, Dieter Fox, and Henry Kautz
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University Of Washington

Location and space:

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RightSPOT: A Novel Sense of Location for a Smart Personal Object (TECHNOTE)
John Krumm, Gerry Cermak, and Eric Horvitz
Microsoft Research

* On a Location Model for Fine-Grained Geocast (FULL PAPER)
Frank Dürr and Kurt Rothermel
Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems (IPVS), University of Stuttgart

Location and space: ray-tracing

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Building World Models by Ray-tracing Within Ceiling-Mounted Positioning Systems (FULL PAPER)
Robert K. Harle and Andy Hopper
Laboratory for Communication Engineering, University of Cambridge

Ubiquitous computing keynote

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William Mitchell, MIT
head of Media Arts and Sciences
Me++: the Cyborg Self and the Networked City

"let's assume it all works"
- let's assume that all we want comes to pass and affects us
--> how does it affect everyday life in cities?

Intimate computing: manifesto

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Manifesto!

Intimate computing: design exercises

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workshop design exercises

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