Informatics 241: UBICOMP:

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Winter 2009

Department of Informatics

Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

University of California, Irvine

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Assignment Schedule:

Weekly Materials
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Week 01

January 5

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UBICOMP Foundations and State of the Art

  1. "The Computer for the Twenty-First Century" by Mark Weiser
  2. "Yesterday's tomorrows: notes on ubiquitous computing's dominant vision" by Genevieve Bell and Paul Dourish
 Lecture 01

Lecture 02

2 page print-out response
 
Week 02
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13
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15
16

Context and Middleware

  1. "What we talk about when we talk about context"
  2. "From Position to Place"
  3. "Building a Better Intercom: Context-Mediated Communication within the Home" (Tiago)
  4. "System Software for Ubiquitous Computing" (Nilmax)

 

Lecture 03

Turn in a response to 1 and 2

Student led discussion of 1 and 2

(Context ...Yongjie Zheng & ?)

 

Lecture 04

Organize

Roleplay Scenario

Turn in a response to 3,4,5

 

  
Week 03
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23

 

Holiday:

Martin Luther King Jr.

(Service Opportunities)

Lecture 05

1) Finish up roleplaying exercise

2) Discuss response to (week 2, papers 3,4)

3)Student Led Discussion of week 2:3,4

Lecture 06

Write a description of 3 mobile apps from Andriod marketplace or iTunes app store and describe to the class

Read week 3 paper 1

Discuss week 3 paper 1

Week 04
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30

Seams and Infrastructure

  1. Infrastructures and Their Discontents: Implications for Ubicomp (Vrishti)
  2. Seamful Design for Location-Based Mobile Games (Tommy)
  3. Picking Pockets on the Lawn: The Development of Tactics and Strategies in a Mobile Game (Oliver)
  4. Reflecting on the invisible: understanding end-user perceptions of ubiquitous computing (Kyle)

 

 

 

Lecture 07

Go over projects a bit

Discuss:

Infrastructure (Vrishti)

Seamful Design (Tommy)

 

Lecture 08

Discuss:

Picking Pockets(Oliver)

Reflecting (Kyle)

Week 05
February 2
3
4
5
6

Location and Sensor Fusion

  1. A Survey and Taxonomy of Location Systems for Ubiquitous Computing (Joey)
  2. Localization of off-the-shelf mobile devices using audible sound: architectures, protocols and performance assessment (Tom)

 

 

Lecture 09

No Class

Android Workshop

12:30-1:30 DBH 4011

Lecture 10

Discuss:

A Survey and Taxonomy (Joey)

Localization of off the shelf (Tom)

 

  
Week 06
9
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11
12
13

Privacy and Surveillance

  1. A Taxonomy for Radio Location Fingerprinting (Faith)
  2. "Opportunity Knocks: a System to Provide Cognitive Assistance with Transportation Services" (Junius)
  3. Unpacking "privacy" for a networked world (Benjamin)
  4. "Sousveillance": inverse surveillance in multimedia imaging (Justin)

 

 

Lecture 11

Turn in a response to

A Taxonomy and Opportunity Knocks

 

1) Review Project Proposals

2) Discuss:

2.1)A Taxonomy (Faith)

2.2)Opportunity Knocks (Junius)

 

Lecture 12

Take a picture of yourself on a public webcam (e.g. here) and submit the screen capture by email to Don

 

Discuss:

1)Unpacking(Benjamin)

2)Sousevillance (Justin)

  
Week 07
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Privacy and Surveillance (cont)

  1. Online Everywhere: Evolving Mobile Instant Messaging Practices (Chung-Yi)
  2. An empirical investigation of concerns of everyday tracking and recording technologies (Sean)
  3. Accountabilities of presence: reframing location-based systems (related article) (Rahim)

 

Holiday:

President's Day

Lecture 13

Group meeting

Discuss

1) An empirical investigation (Sean)

 

  

Lecture 14

Turn in your three favorite facts/statements (one from each paper this week) with a short explanation of what you liked about it.

Discuss:

1) Accountabilities (Rahim)

2) Online Everywhere (Chung-Yi)

 
Week 08
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24
25
26
27

Interruption

  1. Biases in human estimation of interruptibility: effects and implications for practice (Kim)
  2. Detecting and correcting user activity switches: algorithms and interface (Oliver)
  3. A probabilistic mental model for estimating disruption (Tommy)

 

Lecture 15

1) Group Meeeting

2) Discussion about UBICOMP

3) Design Exercise

 

Lecture 16

1) Discuss Interruption papers

 
Week 09
March 2
3
4
5
6

Mobile HCI & Wearable / Tangible Interfaces

 

  1. Understanding the intent behind mobile information needs (Justin)
  2. Effects of mobile map orientation and tactile feedback on navigation speed and situation awareness (Junius)
  3. Visual feedback and different frames of reference: the impact on gesture interaction techniques for wearable computing (Sean,Chung-Yi)
  4. Evaluating capacitive touch input on clothes (Benjamin,Rahim)

 

 

Lecture 17

(Sick)

  

Lecture 18

Discuss

  1. Understanding the intent behind mobile information needs (Justin,Joey)
  2. Effects of mobile map orientation and tactile feedback on navigation speed and situation awareness (Junius,Yongjie)

Turn in a final project progress report

 
Week 10
9
10
11
12
13

 

Smart Homes and Spaces

  1. Building Intelligent Environments with Smart-Its (Tiago,Vrishti)
  2. Meeting the Computational Needs of Intelligent
    Environments: The Metaglue System     (Faith)
  3. Using a live-in laboratory for ubiquitous computing research (Kyle, Sunetra)
  4. The Goal: Smart People, Not Smart Homes (Nilmax)

 

 

 

Lecture 19

Discuss

1. Building Intelligent

2. Meeting the computational needs

  Lecture 20  
Finals Week
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