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March 04, 2005

Going Anywhere, Being Everywhere:

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Metaphors of Mobility for Ubiquitous Computing

"Abstract | Full Text (PDF): If ubiquitous computing seeks to go anywhere and be everywhere, the challenge is to adequately design for context-awareness, where context is defined as fluid and unpredictable, and people, objects and meanings are all mobile. Various efforts in ubiquitous computing have sought to bring computers to "our world" (effectively domesticating them), rather than us having to adapt to the "computer world" (and domesticating us). But such simple dichotomies incorrectly assume there are easy distinctions to be made between the virtual and the actual, or human and machine. Metaphors of mobility from social theory and art draw attention to the mobile and stable elements inherent in the design and use of ubiquitous computing. I argue that a greater articulation of these elements is critical to understanding the foundations of, and future possibilities for, ubiquitous computing." [Anne Galloway, Paper for Concepts and Models for Ubiquitous Computing Workshop at UbiComp 2002, 29 September - 1 October, 2002, Göteborg, Sweden]

Posted by jo at March 4, 2005 07:50 AM

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