Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing (Presentation, part 1 0f 8)
This is part 1 of a speech by Adam Greenfield that outlines the ideas in his book Everyware: The Dawing Age of Ubiquitous Computing — a detailed survey on the implications of ubiquitous computing. The rest of the speech can be found here.
The Internet of Things: What is a Spime and why is it useful
A speech given by Bruce Sterling which explains some of the concepts from his book Shaping Things. Unlike the Greenfield video, this presentation does not do justice to the book it is about.
The Web in the World
A slide show presentation by Timo Arnall which has many great examples of physical interfaces, networked objects, etc…
Also by Timo Arnall is Touch, a website and research project about Near Field Communication (NFC) which enables connections between mobile phones and physical objects. An ongoing archive of interesting applications and technologies.
Polite, Pertinent, and… Pretty: Designing for the New-wave of Personal Informatics
A highly informative slide presentation about Personal Informatics — “services that surface information about you and your network to your advantage.” And here is a recent article on the subject from the Wall Street Journal.
Written by Julian Bleeker, this paper looks at what it means when objects, animals and other things start to contribute to the social web and the value that holds. More notes from Julian here: Networked Objects and the Internet of Things.
The Coming Age of Calm Technology / The Computer for the 21st Century
Both of these papers are by the man who coined the term Ubiquitous Computing back in the 80s, Mark Weiser of Xerox PARC. Required reading on the subject.
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