09/27: Class Introduction

Supplemental:

• Freeband - The Ambient Life

In Class:

• Meet the instructor
• Introduction to the course
• Syllabus
• Names

10/02: Foundations & History

Due:

• Chapter 1
• M. Weiser. The computer for the twenty-first century. Scientific American, 265(3):94–104, September 1991.

In Class:

• Slides (mov,pdf)

Supplemental:

• iPhone spoof
• Living Kitchen

10/04: Foundations & History

Due:

• G. D. Abowd and E. D. Mynatt. Charting past, present, and future research in ubiquitous computing. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact., 7(1):29–58, 2000.
• G. Bell and P. Dourish. Yesterday's tomorrows: notes on ubiquitous computing's dominant vision. Personal Ubiquitous Comput., 11:133–143, January 2007.

In Class:

• Go over sign ups for next week
• Review first writing assignment
• Slides (mov,pdf)

10/09: Foundations & History

Due:

• Y. Rogers. Moving on from weiser's vision of calm computing: Engaging ubicomp experiences. In P. Dourish and A. Friday, editors, Ubicomp, volume 4206 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 404–421. Springer, 2006.
• G. D. Abowd. What next, ubicomp? : celebrating an intellectual disappearing act. In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp ’12, pages 31–40, New York, NY, USA, 2012. ACM.

In Class:

• Course Update
• Student presentation
• Instructor presentation

Supplemental:

• Dream Fellowship
• Social Web Of Things
• Nokia Morph
• Nokia Human Form

10/11: Context-Aware Systems

Due:

• Chapter 8
• P. Dourish. What we talk about when we talk about context. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 8(1):19–30, 2004.
• • 3-4 page response to the papers from Foundations and History.
  • Turn it in on paper at the begining of class
  • Please make it double-spaced
  • Please include a photo of your face in the header
  • Ideas to start from:
    • If Weiser was completely accurate what would be different about the world today?
    • What is true about the world today that demonstrates that Weiser was on to something?
    • Do we live in a pre-UbiComp world? a UbComp world? or a post-Ubicomp World? Why?

In Class:

• Slides (mov,pdf)

10/16: Context-Aware Systems

Due:

• M. Chalmers. A historical view of context. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 13(3):223–247, 2004.
• M. Baldauf, S. Dustdar, and F. Rosenberg. A survey on context-aware systems. IJAHUC, 2(4):263–277, 2007.

10/18: Context-Aware Systems

Due:

• Chapter 2
• J. Hong, E. Suh, and S.-J. Kim. Context-aware systems: A literature review and classification. Expert Syst. Appl., 36(4):8509–8522, 2009.

10/23: Context-Aware Systems

Due:

• A. K. Dey, G. D. Abowd, and D. Salber. A conceptual framework and a toolkit for supporting the rapid prototyping of context-aware applications. Human-Computer Interaction, 16(2/4):97–166, 2001.
• J. Heer, A. Newberger, C. Beckmann, and J. I. Hong. liquid: Context-aware distributed queries. In A. K. Dey, A. Schmidt, and J. F. McCarthy, editors, Ubicomp, volume 2864 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 140–148. Springer, 2003.

In Class:

• Slides (mov,pdf)

Supplemental:

• Social Web of Things

10/25: Context-Aware Systems

Due:

• M. Philipose, K. P. Fishkin, M. Perkowitz, D. J. Patterson, D. Hahnel, D. Fox, and H. Kautz. Inferring activities from interactions with objects. IEEE Pervasive Computing: Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems, 3(4):50–57, October-December 2004.
• X. Ding and D. J. Patterson. Status on display: a field trial of Nomatic*Viz. In I. Wagner, H. Tellioğlu, E. Balka, C. Simone, and L. Ciolfi, editors, ECSCW 2009, Computer Science, pages 303–322. Springer London, September 2009.
• • 1-2 page proposal for a ubicomp project or paper
  • Turn it in on paper at the begining of class
  • Please make it double-spaced
  • You may work in groups of up to 4
  • Please include a photo of your faces in the header
  • Ideas to start from:
    • Design a context blackboard for the Android phone and 2 apps that utilize it
    • Duplicate the work in the SmartMoveX on a graph paper
    • Build a facebook app that tries to expose as much data about your friends as possible

10/30: Location Fusion

Due:

• Chapter 7
• J. Hightower. From position to place. In Proceedings of The 2003 Workshop on Location-Aware Computing, pages 10–12, October 2003. part of the 2003 Ubiquitous Computing Conference.
• J. Hightower and G. Borriello. A survey and taxonomy of location systems for ubiquitous computing. Technical Report UW-CSE-01-08-03, Intel Research Seattle and the University of Washington, 2001.

11/01: Location Fusion

Due:

• C. V. Lopes, A. Haghighat, A. Mandal, T. Givargis, and P. Baldi. Localization of off-the-shelf mobile devices using audible sound: Architectures, protocols and performance assessment. Mobile Computing and Communications Review, to appear, 2006
• J. Krumm, L. Williams, and G. Smith. SmartMoveX on a Graph - An Inexpensive Active Badge Tracker. In Proc. of the 4th international conference on Ubiquitous Computing, pages 299–307. Springer-Verlag, 2002.

11/06: Location Fusion

Due:

• L. Liao, D. Fox, and H. Kautz. Learning and Inferring Transportation Routines. In Proc. of the 19th National Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2004.
• J. Krumm and A. J. B. Brush. Learning time-based presence probabilities. In K. Lyons, J. Hightower, and E. M. Huang, editors, Pervasive, volume 6696 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 79–96. Springer, 2011.
• • 3-4 page response to the papers from Context-Aware Systems
  • Turn it in on paper at the begining of class
  • Please make it double-spaced
  • Please include a photo of your face in the header
  • Ideas to start from:
    • What is context?
    • Does it help?
    • Where does computing need more context?
    • How would you design a context-awareness framework?

11/08: Predicting People

Due:

• Chapter 9
• E. Troshynski, C. Lee, and P. Dourish. Accountabilities of presence: reframing location-based systems. In CHI ’08: Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, pages 487–496, New York, NY, USA, 2008. ACM.

11/13: Predicting People

Due:

• J. Scott, A. J. B. Brush, J. Krumm, B. Meyers, M. Hazas, S. Hodges, and N. Villar. Preheat: controlling home heating using occupancy prediction. In J. A. Landay, Y. Shi, D. J. Patterson, Y. Rogers, and X. Xie, editors, Ubicomp, pages 281–290, New York, NY, USA, 2011. ACM.
• J. Krumm and E. Horvitz. Predestination: Inferring destinations from partial trajectories. In P. Dourish and A. Friday, editors, Ubicomp, volume 4206 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 243–260. Springer, 2006.

11/15: New Sensing

Due:

• M. Philipose, J. R. Smith, B. Jiang, A. V. Mamishev, S. Roy, and K. Sundara-Rajan. Battery-free wireless identification and sensing. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 4(1):37–45, 2005.
• S. N. Patel, S. Gupta, and M. S. Reynolds. The design and evaluation of an end-user-deployable, whole house, contactless power consumption sensor. In Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems, CHI '10, pages 2471–2480, New York, NY, USA, 2010. ACM.
• • 3-4 page response to the papers from Location Fusion or Predicting People
  • Turn it in on paper at the begining of class
  • Please make it double-spaced
  • Please include a photo of your face in the header
  • Ideas to start from:
    • What is finding location difficult? What are untapped opportunities for location based computing now? What technical possibilities are being ignored?
    • What happens when your predictions of people go wrong? How can you generalize a design style that acknowledges this? What is the most complex person prediction situation deployed now? Where could person prediction go?

11/20: Sustainability & Collapse

Due:

• J. Froehlich, L. Findlater, and J. Landay. The design of eco-feedback technology. In Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems, CHI '10, pages 1999–2008, New York, NY, USA, 2010. ACM.
• A. Woodruff, J. Hasbrouck, and S. Augustin. A bright green perspective on sustainable choices. In CHI, pages 313–322, April 2008.

11/22:

11/27: Sustainability & Collapse

Due:

• K. Hanks, W. Odom, D. Roedl, and E. Blevis. Sustainable millennials: attitudes towards sustainability and the material effects of interactive technologies. In CHI, pages 333–342, April 2008.
• Collapse Informatics: Augmenting the Sustainability & ICT4D Discourse in HCI

11/29: Privacy/Surveillance

Due:

• Chapter 3
• Bentham and Panopticon Wikipedia entry
• J. Bentham. The Panopticon Writings. 1787.

12/04: Privacy/Surveillance

Due:

• L. Palen and P. Dourish. Unpacking "privacy" for a networked world. In G. Cockton and P. Korhonen, editors, CHI, pages 129–136. ACM, 2003.
• S. Consolvo, I. E. Smith, T. Matthews, A. LaMarca, J. Tabert, and P. Powledge. Location disclosure to social relations: why, when, & what people want to share. In CHI '05: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, pages 81–90, New York, NY, USA, 2005. ACM Press.

12/06: Privacy/Surveillance

Due:

• P. Dourish and K. Anderson. Collective information practice: Exploring privacy and security as social and cultural phenomena. Human-Computer Interaction, 21(3):319–342, 2006.
• D. H. Nguyen, A. Kobsa, and G. R. Hayes. An empirical investigation of concerns of everyday tracking and recording technologies. In UbiComp ’08: Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Ubiquitous computing, pages 182–191, New York, NY, USA, 2008. ACM.

12/11: Final Project Presentations

12/13: Final Project Presentations