Recent Trends in Ubiquitous Computing

This reading group will review recent literature in the Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing communities. The emphasis will be on developing a familiarity with trends and directions being developed by active researchers. This class meets Mondays from noon to 1pm in ICS 136. This is a lunch friendly, PowerPoint unfriendy meeting. This class is being moderated by Prof. Don Patterson

Reading Schedule

Week Paper Source Lead Discussor Comments
1 10/3/2005 Organization Meeting
Activity Recognition
2 10/10/2005 Simultaneous Tracking and Activity Recognition (STAR) Pervasive 2005 Nick
Fine-Grained Activity Recognition by Aggregating Abstract Object Usage pre-ISWC 2005 Don Don's Practice Talk
Beacon-Based Localization
3 10/17/2005 Place Lab: Device Positioning Using Radio Beacons in the Wild Pervasive 2005 Nick Don at ISWC(Japan)
Accurate GSM Indoor Localization UBICOMP 2005 Amir Amanda Phase II
Places and Mapping
4 10/24/2005 Self-Mapping in 802.11 Location Systems UBICOMP 2005 Don Amanda Phase II
Learning and Recognizing the Places We Go UBICOMP 2005 Sharon
Leveraging Infrastructure
5 10/31/2005 Living for the Global City: Mobile Kits, Urban Interfaces and Ubicomp UBICOMP 2005 Amanda
Parasitic Mobility for Pervasive Sensor Networks Pervasive 2005 Don
User Interface
6 11/7/2005 Fast and Robust Interface Generation for Ubiquitous Applications UBICOMP 2005 Zubin
To Frame or Not to Frame: The Role and Design of Frameless Displays in Ubiquitous Applications UBICOMP 2005 Eric Don at DARPA (Maryland)
Privacy and Negotiation
7 11/14/2005 Control, Deception and Communication: Evaluating the Deployment of a Location-Enhanced Messaging Service UBICOMP2005 Sharon
A Formal Model of Obfuscation and Negotiation for Location Privacy Pervasive 2005 Amanda
Subversion and Gaming
8 11/21/2005 Preventing Camera Recording by Designing a Capture-Resistant Environment UBICOMP 2005 Don
Picking Pockets on the Lawn: The Development of Tactics and Strategies in a Mobile Game UBICOMP 2005 Nick
End-User Ubiquity
9 11/28/2005 u-Texture: Self-Organizable Universal Pannels for Creating Smart Surroundings UBICOMP 2005 Sharon
From Interaction to Participation: Configuring Space Through Embodied Interaction UBICOM2005 Amanda

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