Ubiquitous computing

What is Ubiquitous Computing ? What is ubiquitous computing? An exciting new approach to serving us with technology? Or the environment where the virtuality will became the reality? Let's try to give the definition of ubiquitous computing, its development, including the key people and places influencing its development, and finally some concerns raised by this new approach for putting technology and people together. Already, one name has been reoccurring when talking about ubiquitous computing:

This stage is not yet reached, but the growing needs for more customer-friendly, easily accessible and device-independent technology is pushing these developments. He has also expressed his views on Nomadic Computing which means that the Internet would be accessible for all devices anywhere and anytime. The Internet, at present, is accessible anywhere and anytime, but we are still to work on “all devices” being able to plug-in on the Internet. Internet was made

Identifying elderly people's needs for communication and mobility Sauli Tiitta HIIT (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology), Finland sauli.tiitta@hiit.fi Keywords Elderly people; communication; mobility; participatory observation; narratives, user needs; security and group coherence. Abstract The Finnish parliament's future commission has listed challenges in elderly peoples lives that could be overcome using new technology. The two most important inhibiting factors affecting the

Calm Technology In computing, calm technology aims to reduce the "excitement" of information overload by letting the user select what information is at the center of their attention and what information is peripheral. The term was coined by Mark Weiser, chief technologist, and John Seeley Brown, director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Lab. In the coming age of ubiquitous computing in which technology will become at once pervasive yet invisible, Weiser

With the rapid development of ubiquitous computing technologies, the concept, the principle architecture, and the mechanisms behind decision support systems evolve significantly. Ubiquitous support systems operate in an environment that proactively assists people in their daily lives under changing circumstances. In such a dynamic situation, what might be a good decision in one scenario, could be an awful one for another scenario. As such, the best decision usually depends on the current situation

context-aware computation using network resources is an indispensable part of IoT. With the growing presence of WiFi and 4G-LTE wireless Inter-net access, the evolution towards ubiquitous information and communication networks is already evident. However, for the Internet of Things vision to successfully emerge, the computing paradigm will need to go

In today’s world 3 billion humans are on the internet but there are also 4 billion people that are not. In the beginning of my study on the future of the internet, I asked myself this question: is it possible that everyone could be online and globally connected? Then I asked myself how, if everyone is online, the future of the internet change the experience of everyday life? Looking back, the internet is still a relatively new phenomenon as it was first created back in the 1960’s by a computer scientist

of what we know as ubiquitous computing. His transformative notion in the sense of what computing should provide to the experience of humans has resonated for decades throughout the research community. The bridge between humans and computers and the divide of the digital and physical world should be seamless. It should fold into and disappear within our everyday activities as Weiser described in his famous 1991 paper [8]. His notion of invisible computing or the act of computing merging and dwelling

The modern computer is continuously shrinking at a rapid rate (Hornig, 2013). Correspondingly, computing systems, now more than ever are finding themselves integrated into different aspects of society. From light bulbs to coffee makers, integrated computing systems are creating a dynamic network between ubiquitous computing devices (The Internet Of Things (IoT): Challenges And Benefits, 2015). The “Internet of Things” is the connection and intercommunication of such devices in the physical world

What has been the impact, positive and negative, of the Internet on the way we do business? Internet is defined as a global system of interconnected computer systems. The internet, as we see today, allows anyone to communicate with any other person anywhere around the world without any effort or effective cost anonymously. The advance in technology of Internet has led to faster communications. For example the change of dependency from postal service to much faster e-mails, online banking, social