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July 03 2010
Yesterday’s tomorrows: notes on ubiquitous computing’s dominant vision
Ubicomp is driven, not so much by the problems of the past but by the possibilities of the future. Ubiquitous computing’s vision, however, is over a decade old at this point, and we now inhabit the future imagined by its pioneers. The future, though, may not have worked out as the field collectively imagined. In this article, we explore the vision that has driven the ubiquitous computing research agenda and the contemporary practice that has emerged. Drawing on cross-cultural investigations of technology adoption, we argue for developing a “ubicomp of the present” which takes the messiness of everyday life as a central theme.Authenticating Ubiquitous Services: A Study of Wireless Hotspot Access
This paper concerns the problem of phishing attacks in ubiquitous computing environments. The embedding of ubiquitous services into our everyday environments may make fake services seem plausible but it also enables us to authenticate them with respect to those environments. We propose physical and virtual linkage as two types of authenticating evidence in ubiquitous environments and two protocols based on them. We describe an experiment to test hypotheses concerning user responses to physical and virtual linkage with respect to fake Wi-Fi hotspots. Based on our experience we derive an improved protocol for authenticating spontaneously accessed ubiquitous services.The Cooltown User Experience
The Cooltown project at HP Labs applies Web technology to develop systems that support the users of wireless, handheld devices interacting with their environment, anywhere they may be. The basic elements of Web technology useful for ubiquitous computing are described in several papers and on-line resources from the Cooltown project [1-5]. Here we will give a flavor of the Cooltown user experience, discuss ways that context can be used in web systems, and explain why we think a web-based system for ubiquitous computing can achieve network effects.People, Places, Things: Web Presence for the Real World
The convergence of Web technology, wireless networks, and portable client devices provides new design opportunities for computer/communications systems. In the HP Labs' "Cooltown" project we have been exploring these opportunities through an infrastructure to support "web presence" for people, places and things. We put web servers into things like printers and put information into web servers about things like artwork; we group physically related things into places embodied in web servers. Using URLs for addressing, physical URL beaconing and sensing of URLs for discovery, and localized web servers for directories, we can create a location-aware but ubiquitous system to support nomadic users.Enabling of the Ubiquitous E-services Vision on the Internet
World Wide Web has unleashed people's imagination. A plethora of technologies have come up. As these technologies have sprung up to address different issues it has become imperative to understand how these different technologies fit together. This paper presents the state of the art of these different technologies and tries to present a coherent vision of their interoperation.June 10 2010
Mobi.Ubiq | Home
Mobi.Ubiq provides mobile applications and a web service that enables you to scan, discover and share objects with RFID or barcode tags. Based on the identified object, information and services become available. Mobi.Ubiq is a framework to connect everyday objects and supports building and interacting with the 'Internet of Things'.June 04 2010
Welcome to Ubiquitous Oulu | UBIOulu.fi
The unique infrastructure of ubiquitous technology in the city center of Oulu enables new type of interaction between the citizens and technology. Ubiquitous Oulu is a prototype of a future ubiquitous city which is being built by the multidisciplinary UBI (UrBan Interactions) Program, coordinated by the University of Oulu, and the City of Oulu. Ubiquitous city stands for an urban space in which information technology is being harnessed invisibly and effectively for the use of processes taking place in the space. The objective is to create an urban environment in which better services are being offered to the people of the city.April 27 2010
April 14 2010
T E R I . R U E B
Teri Rueb's interactive sound walks, sculptures and site-specific installations explore landscape, architecture and spatial aspects of sound.April 12 2010
Bio Mapping / Emotion Mapping by Christian Nold
Bio Mapping is revolutionary methodology and tool for visualising people's reactions to the external world.Over the last five years, over 2000 people have taken part in community mapping projects in over 25 cities across the globe. In structured workshops, participants re-explore their local area with the use of a unique device invented by Christian Nold which records the wearer's Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), which is a simple indicator of emotional arousal in conjunction with their geographical location. On their return, a map is created which visualises points of high and low arousal.
April 08 2010
Digital Ground - The MIT Press
Digital Ground is an architect's response to the design challenge posed by pervasive computing. One century into the electronic age, people have become accustomed to interacting indirectly, mediated through networks. But now as digital technology becomes invisibly embedded in everyday things, even more activities become mediated, and networks extend rather than replace architecture.April 05 2010
Perplexus
The aim of the PERPLEXUS project is to develop a scalable hardware platform made of custom reconfigurable devices endowed with bio-inspired capabilities that will enable the simulation of large-scale complex systems and the study of emergent complex behaviours in a virtually unbounded wireless network of computing modules.8th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia - VideoLectures
MUM (International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia) is a distinguished forum for advances in research and technologies that drive innovation in mobile and multimedia systems, applications, and services. At MUM academics and practitioners gather to discuss challenges and achievements from diverse perspectives, in a comfortable and effective single track conference format.March 26 2010
Simavita
A brilliant innovation, and at the core of the SIMsystem™, is a remotely monitored disposable continence aid – the SIMpad®. It is fitted with a sensor strip (SIM™strip) that is completely safe for the wearer.thingm :: an electronic product studio: Home
ThingM is a ubiquitous computing device studio. Here, networked electronics meet user experience design in products for everyday problem solving and self-expression. We bring together people's lives with cutting edge technologies to research and develop original products and services.March 25 2010
Drives & Controls :: News :: Technology news :: Wireless sensor tags create an `instrumentation cloud`
A US company has developed a wireless sensor card that introduces a new concept for performing measurement and analysis, known as the “instrumentation cloud”. Cores Electronic’s Tag4M WiFi sensor tag no longer relies on software running on a specific PC. Instead, it transmits data the Internet and uses Web pages as “instruments” that can be accessed by any device that that can surf the Web, including mobile phones.Appliance Studio: Innovation for Information Appliances
Digital technologies are transforming one industry after another. As the effects pervade our lives every company needs to rethink its products and services. What works for people? What can technology do that they'll value? What does it all mean for me?March 24 2010
iBus Box?
The sign says London Bus Services LTD Communications Systems.
It must be part of the iBus ecosystem.
edit: It seems that the iBus system is linked to traffic lights so that they can affect the flow of traffic in the city to prevent bus jams if they start running late. This must be some kind of receiver/controller set-up.
The sign says London Bus Services LTD Communications Systems.
It must be part of the iBus ecosystem.
edit: It seems that the iBus system is linked to traffic lights so that they can affect the flow of traffic in the city to prevent bus jams if they start running late. This must be some kind of receiver/controller set-up.
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