Complex Ubiquity-Effects Ulrik Ekman

ubicomp = ubiquitous computing is a paradigm for peoples relationship to computers :scale ; invisibility and what results from those changes.

Networks around us at sleep, at wake, multiple machines,mobile apps interweaving with home networks from one to the next, Pervasive internet; online all the time. Networked all around you.Information about you and your likes can be picked up by local networks

The computing of everywhere. They fade into the background we don’t think about whats going on in the background.

AUGEMENTED REALITY: ADDING INFORMATION WITHIN YOUR VIEW POINT.

More and more people relate via mobile phones or computational entities which house intelligent assistants such as Siri, Cortana, Braina, Echo, Hidi, Vlingo, S Voice, or Voice Mate. Figure out how one is to analyze, evaluate, and perhaps contribute actively to the mutual development of human and technical context- awareness, temporal anticipation, and autonomous agency

technologies may appear ‘ubiquitous,’ ‘pervasive,’ or ‘ambient’ but most often do so inconspicuously and invisibly

1 user interacts with many networks.

future: sensors sending messages to us (from home). security (privacy)

Ubiquitous computing names the third wave in computing, just now beginning. First were mainframes, each shared by lots of people. Now we are in the personal computing era, person and machine staring uneasily at each other across the desktop. Next comes ubiquitous computing, or the age of calm technology, when technology recedes into the background of our lives. Alan Kay of Apple calls this “Third Paradigm” computing

Ubiquitous Computing  refers to the trend that we as humans interact no longer with one computer at a time, but rather with a dynamic set of small networked computers, often invisible and embodied in everyday objects in the environment. Alan Kay of Apple calls it ‘Third Paradigm’ computing. Mark Weiser, the father of ubiquitous computing , describes it as a, “difficult integration of human factors, computer science, engineering and social sciences”. He states, “Over the next twenty years computers will inhabit the most trivial things: clothes labels (to track washing), coffee cups (to alert cleaning staff to mouldy cups), light switches (to save energy if no one is in the room), and pencils (to digitize everything we draw). In such a world, we must dwell with computers, not just interact with them” and, “We will dwell with these computers, whose presence we will ignore most of the time, and they will provide us with constant clues about our environment, our loved ones, our own past, the objects around us and the world beyond our home.”