I’ve been thinking a lot about the whole "post-PC" phenomenon, and have come to the conclusion that there’s no such thing. We’ve always had a continuum of devices, and a similar wide range of use ...

(((Design principles for ubicomp user interaction, by Mike Kuniavsky of ThingM. I'm by no means sure I agree with all these, but wow, how great to have something coherent to argue about.))) "I wrote ...

It’s been 25 years since the debut of UbiComp Lab, the University of Washington’s ubiquitous computing research initiative. In 1991, the idea of mobile health tools was far beyond the horizon. Today, ...

In this special guest feature, Arnab Mukherjee, Co-Founder and CTO at ZineOne Inc., discusses how ubiquitous computing, otherwise known as ‘ubicomp’ is not a completely new idea. It’s a concept in ...

Recently, I used my newly downloaded Zipcar app on my iPhone to unlock and honk my booked vehicle from several yards away. It was more novel than useful, but a tall tale example of the countless ...

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, will hold the annual ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2020) co-located with the ACM International ...

Northwestern faculty earned four of the top awards at UbiComp 2020, a premier interdisciplinary venue for researchers, designers, developers, and practitioners of computing. The annual event, held ...

The Ubicomp conference’s Demonstrations Program offers an excellent way to showcase tangible results of ubiquitous computing research and development to over 500 attendees from academia and industry.

A world in which computers and networks disappear into the background of smart rooms and buildings is as viable a vision today as it was when the concept of ubiquitous computing was first articulated ...

Course description and purpose: INFO 4871/5871 introduces the field of ubiquitous computing, including sensors, ambient displays, tangibles, mobility, and location- and context-awareness. These topics ...