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European Commission :

Information Society Technologies (IST)
Future and Emerging Technology (FET)
The Disappearing Computer at FET

Related Research Activities:

Academic
AMBIENTE Division at Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany
Aura at Carnegie Mellon University Distraction-free Ubiquitous Computing
The EQUATOR Interdisciplinary Research Challenge
FCE Group Future Computing Environments

Fuego-Helsinki Institute for Information Technology Future Mobile and Ubiquitous
Computing Research Program
GATECH - Future Computing Environments
GUIR - University of Berkley Group for User Interface Research

i3-NET European Network for Intelligent Information Interfaces
IRG - University of Toronto Interaction Research Group
MCML-Maryland University Mobile Computing and Mutimedia Lab
Mit Media Lab
Portolano-Washignton University

PROACT (Academy of Finland) Research Programme on Proactive Computing
PROACT (French Ministry of Research)
Smart Spaces at NIST
SpaceTag at Kyoto University
SPI at Tampere University Speech-based and Pervasive Research Group
Standford Interactive Workspace Project
Ubiquitous Computing at DARPA

Ubiquitous Computing at TECO
UIUC at Tampere University User Interaction for Ubiquitous Computing
UK-UbiNet
Vision Book Project
WinLab at Rutger University Wireless Information Network Laboratory

Commercial
AT&T Labs (Cambridge)
Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory

IBM Pervasive Computing
Microsoft EasyLiving
Sony Computer Science Labs

UIR- Xerox PARC
User Interface Research Group

Publications of Interest:

"As we May Think" (Vannevar Bush) The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945
IBM Systems Journal Vol. 38, No. 4, 1999
Special Issue on Pervasive Computing
CACM May 2000 vol 43, no 5
Special Issue on 'Embedding the Internet'
"Hot Topics: Ubiquitous Computing" (Mark Weiser) IEEE Computer, October 1993
"The Coming Age of Calm Technology" (Mark Weiser)
"The World is Not a Desktop" (Mark Weiser)

Homepages:

Bill Buxton (Toronto University)
John Canny (GUIR)
Steve Mann (Toronto University)
Jun Rekimoto (Sony)
John Thackara (Doors of Perception)
Xerox PARC Group

Mark Weiser (Xerox)

Press & News:

"The Disappearing Computer" a TIME MAGAZINE feature
"Computers Start to Disappear" a DC Steering Group article
eBiquity a news-based website

Conferences:

UbiComp 2001 The Third International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing

ACM's DIS 2002 Design of Interactive Systems
CHI 2002 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Doors 7 (Doors of Perception) an international conference and knowledge network which sets new agendas for design
UbiComp 2002 The Fourth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
IEEE PerCom 2003

Journals:

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
IEEE Pervasive Computing
IEEE Distributed Systems Online

Link Collections

UbiComp Info
eBiquity (links)
MCML links on mobility

 

 


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