Yesterday’s tomorrows

Notes on ubiquitous computing’s dominant vision

Dados Bibliográficos

ID23314569
AutoresG Bell (0000-0002-0096-2088, Intel (United States), autor correspondente), Paul Dourish (0000-0002-9203-0631, University of California, Irvine)
Ano2007
Volume11
Fascículo2
Páginas133-143
Data de publicação2007-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPersonal and Ubiquitous Computing (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1617-4909 • E-ISSN: 1617-4917
EditoraSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s00779-006-0071-x
OpenAlexW2004623491
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas57
Referências citadas28

Ubiquitous computing is unusual amongst technological research arenas. Most areas of computer science research, such as programming language implementation, distributed operating system design, or denotational semantics, are defined largely by technical problems, and driven by building upon and elaborating a body of past results. Ubiquitous computing, by contrast, encompasses a wide range of disparate technological areas brought together by a focus upon a common vision. It is driven, then, 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.

Context-aware pervasive systems · Data science · Epistemology · Everyday life · Field (mathematics) · Focus (optics) · Human–computer interaction · Theme (computing) · Ubiquitous computing · World Wide Web · Yesterday · Computer Science · Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · IoT and Edge/Fog Computing