{"id":2071,"date":"2008-01-17T16:59:41","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T20:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2017-08-18T18:02:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T18:02:36","slug":"ubiquitous-computing-visions-failures-and-new-interaction-rituals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2008\/01\/17\/ubiquitous-computing-visions-failures-and-new-interaction-rituals\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubiquitous computing: visions, failures and new interaction rituals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/julianbleecker\/2177790819\/\" title=\"20080106_Sun_131406 by JulianBleeckr, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2419\/2177790819_1d0436f188.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20080106_Sun_131406\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liftconference.com\/\">LIFT08<\/a> this year I&#8217;ll be co-organizing a workshop with <a href=\"http:\/\/liftlab.com\/think\/fabien\/\">Fabien Giardin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/\">Nicolas Nova<\/a> on the challenges and visions of ubiquitous computing. It&#8217;s fairly meta in the sense that we will look sideways at the near-future, forever just-out-of-reach promise of the seamlessly connected, always computing world. Pfft..yeah..right! That&#8217;s a good one. But, might it be necessary to have these barely possible visions? Do they help encourage the work that will never achieve the goals, but at least get some work done thinking about this sort of thing?<\/p>\n<p>The integration of information processing into everyday objects and our environments, often referred to as \u201cUbiquitous Computing\u201d has been fueled by strong visions such as Weiser\u2019s \u2018Calm Computing\u2019 paradigm or Philips\u2019 \u2018Ambient Intelligence\u2019. Nevertheless, the ever-increasing number of smart houses, intelligent assistants or mobile location-based applications find niches but has not yet lead to their adoptions by quotidian users. As stated by researchers such as Bell and Dourish, these visions might mislead us into an infinitely postponed proximate future that eventually distracts our attention to what is currently being used and its effects.<br \/>\n[\u2026]<br \/>\nThe purpose is to generate debate about the design and integration of ubiquitous systems based on case studies proposed from workshop participants. Moreover, we want to open up a debate around the future of those systems as well as the adoption by a large user base.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liftconference.com\/ubiquitous-computing-visions-failures-and-new-interaction-rituals\">Full Workshop Description<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For LIFT08 this year I&#8217;ll be co-organizing a workshop with Fabien Giardin and Nicolas Nova on the challenges and visions of ubiquitous computing. It&#8217;s fairly meta in the sense that we will look sideways at the near-future, forever just-out-of-reach promise of the seamlessly connected, always computing world. Pfft..yeah..right! That&#8217;s a good one. But, might it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2008\/01\/17\/ubiquitous-computing-visions-failures-and-new-interaction-rituals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ubiquitous computing: visions, failures and new interaction rituals<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ubiquitous computing: visions, failures and new interaction rituals - Near Future Laboratory<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2008\/01\/17\/ubiquitous-computing-visions-failures-and-new-interaction-rituals\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ubiquitous computing: visions, failures and new interaction rituals - Near Future Laboratory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For LIFT08 this year I&#8217;ll be co-organizing a workshop with Fabien Giardin and Nicolas Nova on the challenges and visions of ubiquitous computing. 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