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Ubiquitous Computing Visions

Ubiquitous Computing Visions. Jason I. Hong jasonh at cs cmu edu. Original Ubicomp Vision Tabs, Pads, Boards. 1991, few years after Mac Before MS Windows, GPS, cell phones, and web took off. Original Ubicomp Vision Main Points. Push tech into the physical world

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Ubiquitous Computing Visions

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  1. Ubiquitous Computing Visions Jason I. Hong jasonh at cs cmu edu

  2. Original Ubicomp VisionTabs, Pads, Boards • 1991, few years after Mac • Before MS Windows, GPS, cell phones, and web took off

  3. Original Ubicomp VisionMain Points • Push tech into the physical world • New devices leveraging familiar metaphors • Push tech into the background, invisible • Analogy to literacy • Artificial intelligence not needed • Location sensing can be very powerful • Automatic diary, auto door open, call forwarding • Lots of very cheap displays (inch, foot, yard) • Lots of new interaction techniques • Waving, writing, walking into rooms

  4. Original Ubicomp VisionSome Critiques • Cost • Very expensive infrastructure • Cheaper, intermediate forms of ubicomp? • How do things get pushed into background? • Sort of assumes it will just happen • Understandability • How to design so people can use things? • What is active? What isn’t? • Too optimistic? • Viruses? Phishing? Hackers? • Will anytime access to info help or exacerbate overload?

  5. Synthetic Serendipity • Vinge is well-known sci-fi writer • Story set in year 2020 • Like a low-fidelity prototype • Has to be somewhat plausible vision of future • Some interesting points • How Google, Ebay, FedEx used in future • Not real cyborgs, but close to it • Real-time Google • Information overlays on top of real world • Pipes, nav arrows, online games in world • Other services • Real-world Tivo, Friends of Privacy, Silent Messaging

  6. Synthetic SerendipitySome Critiques of Ubicomp • Will wearable computers take off? • Will this make everyone into INTJ personality type? • Will it be harder to differentiate “reality”? • Live in “reality” or a world we created? • A Matrix of our own making? • Cost • 15 years between now and then • Moore’s law enough? How to get things out there?

  7. Another Vision of Ubicomp We will reach a point where the combination of powerful processors, limitless data-storage capacity, ubiquitous sensor networks, and deeply embedded user interfaces will create a bond between human and machine “so intimate that users may reasonably be considered superhumanly intelligent.” - Vernor Vinge

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