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Ubiquitous Computing
ISNM Luebeck
Summer 2003


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June 28th: Introduction I

Content

Vision and Trends, Examples

Slides

Slides 1-157
 Introduction.pdf.zip (7,499,776 Bytes)
Slides 158-208
 Examples.pdf.zip (2,433,024 Bytes)


Links

 XEROX Parc
 Internet Pioneers
 ArtMuseum.net: Krueger
 Weiser at Xerox
 Robin Southgate: Smart Toaster
 Teco Karlsruhe: Smart MediaCup
 Teco Karlsruhe: SmartIts
 The Portolano Project
 The Cooltown Project
 ETH Zurich: The RFID SmartChef Project
 MIT Timeline Wearables: Shannon/Thorp
 wearcam.org: Steve Mann
 Pioneer: Wearable Jacket
 Infinion: Smart Carpet
 University of Illinois: Smart Bricks
 EU Project: The Disappearing Computer
 IBM: The Wearable Computer
 ETH Zurich: Electronic Textiles
 XEROX Parc: Gyricon
 EInk.com: Electronic Paper
 Philips Research: Electronic Paper
 www.covion.com (OLED)
 www.billbuxton.com (Reactive Environments)
 Kinetic Sciences Inc. (Overview of fingerprint sensors)
 Veridicom (Fingerprint Sensors)
 Furuno (GPS Scanner)
 U-Blox (GPS Chip)
 Casio Protrek (GPS Watch)
 Buxton et.al.: Reactive Room
 Wellner: Digital Desk
 GMD/Berkeley: Responsive WorkBench
 Boulder: The Adaptive House
 Georgia Institute of Technology: The Aware Home
 InHaus Duisburg
 Alexander Hegius Gymnasium Ahaus (AHG): EasyLiving House
 Microsoft: The SPOT project
 Philips: The Mirror Display
 Ambient Devices: The Ambient ORB
 Philips: Living Memory
 Philips: Nebula
 Philips HomeLab
References

• Mark Weiser
The Computer for the 21st Century,
Scientific American, September 1991, pp. 94-104.
 www.ubiq.com
• Mark Weiser
Some Computer Science Issues in Ubiquitous Computing,
Communic. of the ACM, vol. 36, No. 7, July 1993, pp. 75-84.
 The ACM Digital Library
• Roy Want, Bill N. Schilit, Norman I. Adams, Rich Gold, Karin Petersen, David Goldberg, John R. Ellis, and Mark Weiser
The ParcTab Ubiquitous Computing Experiment,
Technical Report CSL-95-1, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, March 1995.
 www.ubiq.com
• Vannevar Bush
As We May Think,
The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 176, No. 1, July 1945, pp. 101-108.
 The Atlantic Online
• Elgar Fleisch
Business Perspectives of Ubiquitous Computing,
Working Paper 4, version 1.0, M-Lab, ETH Zurich, 2001.
 PDF File on ETH server
• Kay Römer
Smart Playing Card, A Ubiquitous Computing Game,
Workshop on Designing Ubiquitous Computing Games, UbiComp, 2001.
 PDF File on ETH server
• Marc Langheinrich, Friedemann Mattern, Kay Römer, Harald Vogt
First Steps Towards and Event-Based Infrastructure for Smart Things,
Ubiquitous Computing Workshop (PACT 2000), October 15-19, 2000, Philadelphia, PA.
 PDF File on ETH server
• Edward O. Thorp
The Invention of the First Wearable Computer,
2nd International Symposium on Weareable Computers, 1998, Pittsburgh, USA
 NEC Citeseer collection
• C. Narayanaswami et.al
IBM‘s Linux Watch: The Challenge of Miniaturization,
IEEE Computer, January 2002, pp. 33-41.
 IEEE Paper Server
• Kalle Lyytinen and Youngjin Yoo
Issues and Challenges in Ubiquitous Computing,
Communic. of the ACM, vol. 45, no. 12, Dec. 2002, pp. 63-65.
 ACM Digital Library
• Gregory D. Abowd and Elizabet D. Mynatt
Charting Past, Present and Future Research in Ubiquitous Computing,
ACM Transactions on HCI, vol. 7, no. 1, March 2000.
 ACM Digital Library
• Patrick Baudisch
Halo: A Technique for Visualizing Offscreen Locations,
ACM Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Conference 2003 Fort Lauderdale, Florida April 5-10, 2003.
 PDF file on FhG/IPSI file server
• William A.S. Buxton
Living in Augmented Reality: Ubiquitous Media and Reactive Environments,
In: K. Finn, A. Sellen, S. Wilber (Ed.): Video Mediated Communication, Hillsdale, N.J. Erlbaum, pp. 364-384.
 www.billbuxton.com
• Jeremy R. Cooperstock, Sidney S. Fels, William Buxton, and Kenneth C. Smith
Reactive Environments,
Communic. of the ACM, vol. 40, no. 9, Sep. 1997, pp. 65-73.
 ACM Digital Library
• Pierre Wellner
Interacting with Paper on the DigitalDesk,
Communic. of the ACM, vol. 36, no. 7, pp. 87-96, July 1993.
 ACM Digital Library
• R. Want, A. Hopper, V. Falcao, and J. Gibbons
The active badge location system,
ACM Transactions on Information Systems, vol. 10, pp. 91--102, Jan. 1992.
 NEC CiteSeer Server
• Myron Krueger
Environmental Technology: Making the Real World Virtual,
Communic. of the ACM, vol. 36, no. 7, July 1993, pp. 36-37.
 The ACM Digital Library

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