Yesterday’s tomorrows: notes on ubiquitous computing’s dominant vision Export

@article{Dourish2006, abstract = {Ubiquitous computing is unusual amongst technological research arenas. Most areas of computer science research, such as programming language implementation, distributed operating system design, or denotational semantics, are defined largely by technical problems, and driven by building upon and elaborating a body of past results. Ubiquitous computing, by contrast, encompasses a wide range of disparate technological areas brought together by a focus upon a common vision. It is driven, then, not so much by the problems of the past but by the possibilities of the future. Ubiquitous computing's vision, however, is over a decade old at this point, and we now inhabit the future imagined by its pioneers. The future, though, may not have worked out as the field collectively imagined. In this article, we explore the vision that has driven the ubiquitous computing research agenda and the contemporary practice that has emerged. Drawing on cross-cultural investigations of technology adoption, we argue for developing a ” ubicomp of the present” which takes the messiness of everyday life as a central theme.}, author = {Bell and Genevieve and Dourish and Paul}, citeulike-article-id = {1100431}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1229069}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00779-006-0071-x}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/779/2007/00000011/00000002/00000071}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/b22773n515483117}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1007/s00779-006-0071-x}, issn = {1617-4909}, journal = {Personal and Ubiquitous Computing}, keywords = {agenda, context, dourish, ubicomp}, month = {February}, number = {2}, pages = {133--143}, posted-at = {2009-10-14 07:23:29}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Springer}, title = {Yesterday's tomorrows: notes on ubiquitous computing's dominant vision}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00779-006-0071-x}, volume = {11}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - Dourish2006 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1100431 N2 - Ubiquitous computing is unusual amongst technological research arenas. Most areas of computer science research, such as programming language implementation, distributed operating system design, or denotational semantics, are defined largely by technical problems, and driven by building upon and elaborating a body of past results. Ubiquitous computing, by contrast, encompasses a wide range of disparate technological areas brought together by a focus upon a common vision. It is driven, then, not so much by the problems of the past but by the possibilities of the future. Ubiquitous computing’s vision, however, is over a decade old at this point, and we now inhabit the future imagined by its pioneers. The future, though, may not have worked out as the field collectively imagined. In this article, we explore the vision that has driven the ubiquitous computing research agenda and the contemporary practice that has emerged. Drawing on cross-cultural investigations of technology adoption, we argue for developing a “ubicomp of the present” which takes the messiness of everyday life as a central theme. IS - 2 JF - Personal and Ubiquitous Computing SN - 1617-4909 EP - 143 TI - Yesterday’s tomorrows: notes on ubiquitous computing’s dominant vision PB - Springer VL - 11 SP - 133 KW - agenda KW - context KW - dourish KW - ubicomp AU - Bell AU - Genevieve AU - Dourish AU - Paul PY - 2007/02/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00779-006-0071-x ER -