Ubiquitous computing is coming of age. In the few short years of the lifetime of this conference, we have seen major changes in our emerging research community. When the conference started in 1999, as Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing, the field was still in its formative stage. In 2002, we see the Ubicomp conference (the name was shortened last year) emerging as an established player attracting research submissions of very high quality from all over the world. Virtually all major research centers and universities now have research programs broadly in the field of ubiquitous computing. Whether we choose to call it ubiquitous, pervasive, invisible, disappearing, embodied, or some other variant of computing, it is clear that Mark Weiser’s original vision has only become more and more relevant since the term was coined over 10 years ago. But, most important in our context, the interest in the field can be gauged from the rising number of full paper submissions to the conference: from about 70 in both 1999 and 2000, to 90 in 2001, to this year's record breaking 136! Counting technical notes, workshops, poster and video submissions, there were over 250 original works submitted to this year’s conference. This is an impressive effort by the research community, and we are grateful to everyone who took time to submit their work – without this, the conference would simply not exist.
Author(s): Jenna Burrell, Geri K. Gay, Kiyo Kubo, Nick Farina (auth.), Gaetano Borriello, Lars Erik Holmquist (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2498
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 388
Tags: Computer Communication Networks; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems; Software Engineering; Operating Systems; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Communications Engineering, Networks
Context-Aware Computing: A Test Case....Pages 1-15
ComicDiary: Representing Individual Experiences in a Comics Style....Pages 16-32
Mobile Reality : A PDA-Based Multimodal Framework Synchronizing a Hybrid Tracking Solution with 3D Graphics and Location-Sensitive Speech Interaction....Pages 33-47
Rememberer: A Tool for Capturing Museum Visits....Pages 48-55
Issues in Personalizing Shared Ubiquitous Devices....Pages 56-72
User Study Techniques in the Design and Evaluation of a Ubicomp Environment....Pages 73-90
Change Blind Information Display for Ubiquitous Computing Environments....Pages 91-106
Supporting Human Activities — Exploring Activity-Centered Computing....Pages 107-116
Perceptual Components for Context Aware Computing....Pages 117-134
Face-Responsive Interfaces: From Direct Manipulation to Perceptive Presence....Pages 135-151
Vision-Based Face Tracking System for Large Displays....Pages 152-159
The FindIT Flashlight: Responsive Tagging Based on Optically Triggered Microprocessor Wakeup....Pages 160-167
‘ForSe FIE lds ’ - Force Sensors for Interactive Environments....Pages 168-175
Approximate Information Flows: Socially-Based Modeling of Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing....Pages 176-193
The Personal Server: Changing the Way We Think about Ubiquitous Computing....Pages 194-209
QueryLens : Beyond ID-Based Information Access....Pages 210-218
Pin&Play: Networking Objects through Pins....Pages 219-228
Social Aspects of Using Large Public Interactive Displays for Collaboration....Pages 229-236
A Privacy Awareness System for Ubiquitous Computing Environments....Pages 237-245
A Hybrid Location Model with a Computable Location Identifier for Ubiquitous Computing....Pages 246-263
A Novel Broadband Ultrasonic Location System....Pages 264-280
Location of Mobile Devices Using Networked Surfaces....Pages 281-298
SmartMoveX on a Graph - An Inexpensive Active Badge Tracker....Pages 299-307
A Generic Location Event Simulator....Pages 308-315
PlantCare: An Investigation in Practical Ubiquitous Systems....Pages 316-332
Context Acquisition Based on Load Sensing....Pages 333-350
Proactive Instructions for Furniture Assembly....Pages 351-360
WearNET: A Distributed Multi-sensor System for Context Aware Wearables....Pages 361-370
Using Low-Cost Sensing to Support Nutritional Awareness....Pages 371-378
