A look at human interaction with pervasive computers

2013

This paper provides a concise summary of pervasive computing and also the challenges faced in computer systems research posed by the emerging field of pervasive computing. This papper probes the relationship of this new field to its predecessors distributed systems and mobile c functionality need to be held apart, so that they can graciously evolve in a global computing infrastructure. Second, the applications must be able to acquire any resource they need at any time, so that they ca their services in a highly dynamic environment. Third, pervasive computing requires a common system platform, which allows the applications to run across the range of devices and to be automatically distributed and installed. This paper also discusses about the growing debate over privacy, safety and environmental implications. Finally the paper closes with a discussion of the research necessary to develop these capabili

… of Mobile and Pervasive Computing (CoMPC- …

Pervasive computing is a new dimension of personal computing that integrates mobile communication, ubiquitous embedded computer system, consumer electronics and power of Internet. It is a rapidly developing area of Information and Communications Technology (ICT). The term refers to the increasing integration of ICT into people's lives and e nvironments, made possible by the growing availability of microprocessors with inbuilt communications facilities. Pervasive computing has many potential applications, from health and home care to environmental monitoring and intelligent transport systems.

Ubiquitous computing refers to embedding computers and communication in our environment. Ubiquitous computing provides an attractive vision for the future of computing. The idea behind the ubiquitous computing is to make the computing power disappear in the environment, but will always be there whenever needed or in other words it means availability and invisibility.These invisible computers will not have keyboards or screens, but will watch us, listen to us and interact with us. Ubiquitous computing environments involve the interaction, coordination, and cooperation of numerous, casually accessible, and often invisible computing devices. One is happy when ones desires are fulfilled.The highest ideal of ubicomp is to make a computer so imbedded, so fitting, so natural, that we use it without even thinking about it. Ubiquitous computing is referred as pervasive computing throughout the paper. One of the goals of ubiquitous computing is to enable devices to sense changes in their environment and to automatically adapt and act based on these changes based on user needs and preferences The prime goal of this technology is to make human life more simple, safe and efficient by using the ambient intelligence of computers. Ubiquitous computing therefore induces a paradigm shift in the way we use computers: Instead of bringing the world into the computer (the Virtual Realityparadigm), computational power is now brought to the objects of the physica world. Eventually, the vision of Ubiquitous Computing induces a new way of thinking about computers in the world, one that takes into account the natural human environment and allows the computers themselves to vanish into the background. This paper presents a number of compelling applications using ubiquitous computing and addresses the associated security and usability concerns.

ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review, 1993

2010

Page 1. Pervasive and Mobile Computing 6 (2010) 324–341 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/ pmc Providing user context for mobile and social networking applications André C. Santosa, João MP Cardosob, Diogo R. Ferreiraa,∗, Pedro C. Diniza, Paulo Chaínhoc a IST — Technical University of Lisbon, Avenida Prof. Dr.

2002

Many predict that the computing environment of the future will be characterized by the presence of numerous invisible sensors and computing elements, autonomously interacting with each other to dynamically construct and provide services to users that enter and leave the environment. The software challenges to turn such pervasive or ubiquitous computing environments into reality are enormous, to say nothing of the hardware and social challenges. These challenges question many of the assumptions we are used to making and many of the solutions we are used to applying in our current software systems. In this talk, I will review some of the work of my group in the areas of software components, security and access control, and device independent Web access and then analyze where our solutions are lacking and must be adapted fo r pervasive computing.

Invited Paper in Proceedings of the International Conference on Trends and Advances in Computation and Engineering (TRACE’10), pp. 1323-1346, February 25 – 26, Bhopal, India, 2010

The world is witnessing the birth of a revolutionary computing paradigm that promises to have a profound effect on the way we interact with computers, devices, physical spaces, and other people. This new technology, called ubiquitous computing, envisions a world where embedded processors, computers, sensors, and digital communications are inexpensive commodities that are available everywhere. Ubiquitous computing will surround users with a comfortable and convenient information environment that merges physical and computational infrastructures into an integrated habitat. This habitat will feature a proliferation of hundreds or thousands of computing devices and sensors that will provide new functionality, offer specialized services, and boost productivity and interaction. This paper presents a comprehensive discussion on the central trends in ubiquitous computing considering them form technical, social and economic perspectives. It clearly identifies different application areas and sectors that will benefit from the potentials of ubiquitous computing. It also brings forth the challenges of ubiquitous computing that require active solutions and management.

IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2006

At the Pervasive Technology Applied workshop (part of Pervasive 2006), practitioners and researchers discussed how to bridge the gap between academic research and the practical hurdles in pervasive technology. The wide range of submissions demonstrated the great potential of applied pervasive technologies. In the emerging discussions, participants highlighted the most important technical and cooperation issues.

2007

The chapter presents the background to the development of the digital home of the future and the ways in which it might be controlled by the end-user. We describe the technical background to the development of the digital home out of the ubiquitous availability of networks and devices. We then describe two different approaches to user control that are already under development–Task Based Computing (TBC) and Pervasive Interactive Programming (PiP). We discuss theoretical work on combining, formalising and ...

Mobile Computing and Networking, 2000

This paper challenges the mobile computing community by questioning the roles of devices, applications, and a user's environment. A vision of pervasive computing is described, along with attributes of a new application model that supports this vision to reality. Pervasive computing is more art than science. It will remain this way as long as people continue to view mobile computing devices as mini-desktops, applications as pro-grams that run on these devices, and the environment as a virtual space that a user enters to perform a task and leaves when the task is finished. This paper challenges the mobile computing community to adopt a new view of devices and its applications.