Ubicomp Group Wiki Page

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Next Meeting

Confirmed date and time for next meeting

• May 6, 2005 @ 10am CS1 room 202

Proposed agenda

• Introductions
  • who you are and why you're here, interests?
• Group scope and objectives
  • what is ubicomp, pervasive computing, mobile computing?
  • what are this group's objectives?
• Group activities (see more ideas below)
  • collaborative web site, blog, wiki
  • reading group
  • facilitate project collaboration
  • provide feedback for papers, proposals
  • pool resources
  • forum for current research ideas
• RESCALE project proposal (see below)
  • introduce ubicomp project proposed by David Vogt
• Other?
• Next steps
  • schedule next meeting
  • follow up activities

Project Proposals

RESCALE

RESCALE, “Researching Campus Learning Ecosystems,” an infrastructure for researching teaching and learning on an unprecedented scale. RESCALE re-conceptualizes the entire UBC academic community as a dynamic learning ecosystem. Its bold research objective is to support an investigation of teaching and learning across time, space, and place. This objective applies well to the enormous investments of organizations everywhere to understand and support learning in order to optimize their own learning ecosystems. Support for this research requires an innovative infrastructure, featuring wireless technology, spaces for meaningful collaboration, and leading edge technology that will support systematic data collection, analysis, synthesis and ultimately, effective dissemination of findings.

Papers

Zhai S, Kristensson PO, Smith BA (2005). In search of effective text input interfaces for off the desktop computing. Interacting with Computers 17(3):229--250 <doi:10.1016/j.intcom.2003.12.007>

Abstract: It is generally recognized that today's frontier of HCI research lies beyond the traditional desktop computers whose GUI interfaces were built on the foundation of displaypointing devicefull keyboard. Many interface challenges arise without such a physical UI foundation. Text writingranging from entering URLs and search queries, filling forms, typing commands, to taking notes and writing emails and chat messagesis one of the hard problems awaiting for solutions in off-desktop computing. This paper summarizes and synthesizes a research program on this topic at the IBM Almaden Research Center. It analyzes various dimensions that constitute a good text input interface; briefly reviews related literature; discusses the evaluation methodology issues of text input; presents the major ideas and results of two systems, ATOMIK and SHARK; and points out current and future directions in the area from our current vantage point.

Conferences

Ubicomp 2005 September 11-September 14, 2005 in Tokyo, Japan http://www.ubicomp.org

Next deadline is a call for posters due June 10th...

UbiComp is a premier venue for presenting research impacting the design and usage of ubiquitous computing technology. The Posters category provides researchers with an opportunity to present work in a forum that facilitates open discussion, and enables authors to interact directly with conference attendees. In the Posters category, we encourage the submission of late-breaking, preliminary, or exploratory work, smaller projects or results not suitable for a full paper, and any other research that authors wish to present in an interactive, open forum.

Poster submissions should include an extended abstract of no longer than 2 pages in the ACM SIGCHI conference publications format (http://sigchi.org/chipubform/), including all figures and references. Submissions may also include an optional single page describing or illustrating the proposed poster. This page is should convey to reviewers visual aspects of the poster that may not come across in the abstract, for example including a key graphic to be used in the poster. This supplemental page is for review purposes only and will not be published.

Accepted 2-page Poster abstracts will be published in a Conference Supplement that will be distributed to attendees at the conference; they will not be incorporated into the main UbiComp 2005 Conference Proceedings.

Submissions should be sent as .pdf files to ubicomp-poster@oceanDELETEthisTEXT.ise.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp

Important Dates: - Deadline for submission: June 10, 2005 - Notification of Acceptance: July 22, 2005 - Final Version Due: August 5, 2005

Links

• http://www.engadget.com/
• http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/
• http://www.upnp.org/

Various Notes and Ideas

Ideas for next meeting

• Purpose of Mobile Computing Group
• How can the group facilitate collaboration
• Schedules (Meeting time and such)
• (put your ideas here)

Ideas for group

• pool resources (hardware, gadgets)
• share ideas
• set up a web site & wiki
• collaborate on larger projects to target bigger conferences
• Common list of industry/academic contacts (may be useful for people in other groups to see who has contacts where)
• Cross Faculty Collaboration? (ie. Engineering, Biomedicine)

Project title ideas

• Scalable ubiquitous computing application infrastructure
• Location-based/Context-aware gaming
• Scalable location-based service discovery
• Wireless Grid?
• Streaming video to mobile devices
• P2P and mobile computing
• Geographical routing
• Geographical storage
• Aspect-oriented mobile web markup?
• Sensor nets, ad hoc networking and robotics?
• using cell phones as game controllers on large screen displays
• Wireless gaming, issues about wireless streaming and routing
• TCP/IP supports in wireless networks
• Small device user interface issues
• Spontaneous collaboration using mobile devices
• Building Software Product Lines for Mobile Devices
• Multi-Device/Communication sync service (ie. Sync any device whenever you hit a sync 'hot spot')
• Digital home architecture (lot's of ideas here around UPNP, JINI etc.)
• (put your ideas here)