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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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