The Future of Ubiquitous computing in 2025

Team Composition

• Constantijn Bakker
  
• Teppo Helles
  
• Petr Hýl
  
• Christos Mileos
  
• Panagiotis (Panos) Vodinas
  

Introduction

Ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) integrates computation into the environment, rather than having computers which are distinct objects. Other terms for ubiquitous computing include pervasive computing, calm technology, things that think, everyware, and more recently, pervasive Internet. Promoters of this idea hope that embedding computation into the environment and everyday objects would enable people to interact with information-processing devices more naturally and casually than they currently do, and in ways that suit whatever location or context they find themselves in.

Ubicomp's central aim has been invisibility, meaning that one does not need to continually rationalize one's use of a ubicomp system. Having learnt about its use sufficiently well, one ceases to be aware of it. It is "literally visible, effectively invisible" in the same way that a skilled carpenter engaged in his work might use a hammer without consciously planning each swing. Similarly, when you look at a street sign, you absorb its information without consciously performing the act of reading.

Ubicomputing is considered by some as the next great wave in IT development.

The Driving Forces

• Economical Forces: Link

• Environmental Forces: Link

• Political Forces: Link

• Social Forces: Link

• Technological Forces: Link

Research

Research Agenda
Analysis of the book 'Everyware' on Ubiquitous Computing

Related Articles

Title: The Disappearing Computer by Bill Gates. link
Abstract: Bill Gates believes that the computer is diversifying, and that we see a development of embedded systems into our environment without us really knowing it. This development can be understood by looking at the following forces: sales level of microprocessors, increase level of embedded systems in our environment, the place of the PC in our homes, the developing market of information devices (such as mobile phones, pda, etc), development of interfaces, price of components, and the development of PC components.

Title: A Digital Life link
Abstract: New systems may allow people to record everything they see and hear, and even things they cannot sense, and to store all these data in a personal portable digital archive.

Title: Original website of Marc Weiser. link
Abstract: This website contains the thoughts of Marc Weiser at the time he was working at Xerox Palo Research.

• Techware. link
• Wearable computing Lab ET Zurich. link

• Social, Economic, and Ethical Implications of Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing. Link
• Wireless Future: Ubiquitous Computing Link

• Living in a World of Smart Everyday Objects - Social, Economic, and Ethical Implications Link

• Ambient Intelligence: Changing Forms of Human-Computer Interaction and their Social Implications Link

• What Does Ubiquitous Computing Mean For Teaching and Learning?

Link

• EU Report: Shaping Europe’s Future Through ICT Link

• Toward Computer-Supported Ubiquitous

Language-Learning Link

• Supporting Classroom Activities toward the Ubiquitous Learning Environment Link

Videos

• Amigo: The Intelligent Home Network link
• CES 2007 - Microsoft Keynotelink
• HCI with eye-motion detection link
• Intelligent Drawings (for kids) link
• Multi-Touch Experience link
• Minority Report becomes reality link
• Ubicomputing Fashion South Korea link
• Wearable Computing Systems link

Books

The dawning age of Ubiquitous Computing by Adam Greenfield

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