Approaches to conducting eld research in ubicomp draw from many dierent disciplines and
research traditions, each with its own style. is chapter takes a pragmatic approach to eld …

Over the past decade and a half, corporations and academies have invested considerable
time and money in the realization of ubiquitous computing. Yet design approaches that yield …

This paper describes a new approach for a course and laboratory designed to allow
students to develop low-cost prototypes of robotic and other embedded devices that feature …

" Field Computing", is an ongoing interdisciplinary research project to design and build
wearable devices for use in citizen science applications. The works from this project is …

"... a must-read text that provides a historical lens to see how ubicomp has matured into a
multidisciplinary endeavor. It will be an essential reference to researchers and those who …

Early informatics focused primarily on the application of technology and computer science to
a specific domain; modern informatics has broadened to encompass human and knowledge …

How should Ubicomp technologies be evaluated? While lab studies are good at sensing
aspects of human behavior and revealing usability problems, they are poor at capturing …

The young field of ubiquitous computing is steadily making progress and gaining attention in
both academia and industry. While new gadgets and smart home appliances cannot appear …

CONCLUSION The biggest win from the summer school is probably yet to come: the
summer school provided a meeting ground for budding ubiquitous and pervasive computing …

Broadly speaking, ethnography can be thought of as a sensibility or “way of seeing” one
adopts in collecting and interpreting eld study materials (see Wolcott, 1999). is sensibility …