B649: Ubiquitous Computing

Fall, 2003

Course Description:

Readings: (Paper -- Presenter)

• The Computer for the 21st Century -- Kay Connelly
Reading topic: How is Weiser's vision limited? Too much?
• Workshop on Security in Ubiquitous Computing UbiComp2002 -- Kay Connelly
Reading topic: What do you think the top 3 security/privacy issues are for individuals? Organizations? How do they differ?

• Overview of Radiolocation in CDMA Cellular Systems and An Overview of the Challenges and Progress in Meeting the E-911 Requirement for Location Service -- Nick Edmonds
Reading Topic: Discuss the Pros and Cons of Angle-of-Arrival and Time-of-Arrival positioning. Also discuss security risksthat may arise from this positioning technology and how they might be mitigated.
• RADAR: An In-Building RF-based User Location and Tracking System -- Camilo Viecco
Reading Topic: What are the pros and cons of the RADAR positioning system? Can you suggest a method to reduce the training time of the system (creating the radio map)?

• The Cricket Location-Support System -- Liang Fang
• The Anatomy of a Context-Aware Application -- Yong Liu

Reading Topic #1: Briefly compare and contrast the three indoor location systems we have seen (RADAR, Cricket, Bats (Anatomy paper)). When might you want to use one of the systems over the others?
Reading Topic #2: Is there any point to having more than 1 type of indoor location system in a given building? Justify your position.

• A Flexible, Privacy-Preserving Authentication Framework for Ubiquitous Computing Environments -- Katie Moor
• The Resurrecting Duckling: Security Issues for Ad-hoc Wireless Networks -- Ashraf Khalil

• Next Century Challenges: Mobile Networking for "Smart Dust" -- Satoshi Shirasuna
• ForSe FIElds' - Force Sensors for Interactive Environments -- Cathy Yuan

• From Informing to Remembering: Ubiquitous Systems in Interactive Museums -- Poornima Venkatakrishnan
• Issues in Personalizing Shared Ubiquitous Devices -- Amanda Stephano

• A Middleware Infrastructure for Active Spaces -- Ying Liu
• Project Aura: Toward Distraction-Free Pervasive Computing -- Rahul Doshi

• The Interactive Workspaces Project: Experiences with Ubiquitous Computing Rooms -- Mike Oder
• EasyLiving: Technologies for Intelligent Environments -- Deepti Kodeboyina
Reading Topic: Compare and contrast the goals and assumptions for the 4 smart environments we've read about. How do these goals and assumptions effect the design choices of each?

• The Context Toolkit: Aiding the Development of Context-Enabled Applicatinos -- Tom Jagatic
• liquid: Context-Aware Distributed Querries -- Zhai Gang

• Mobile Reality: A PDA-Based Multimodal Framework Synchronizing a Hybrid Tracking Solution with 3D Graphics and Location-Sensitive Speech Interaction -- Nisha Gupta

• Paper1
• Paper 2
• Reading Topic #1: What is the added value of taking into account the design aesthetic when designing ubicomp applications?
• Reading Topic #2: In what ways does Ambient Wood provide a field trip with a difference? Surely, children can learn just as well using good old fashioned technologies, like a pen and pencil and a notebook?