TIL the phrase "Ubicomp":
"Ubiquitous computing (or "ubicomp") is a concept in software engineering where computing is made to appear seamlessly anytime and everywhere. In contrast to desktop computing, ubiquitous computing implies use on any device, in any location, and in any format"
"Ubiquitous computing (or "ubicomp") is a concept in software engineering where computing is made to appear seamlessly anytime and everywhere. In contrast to desktop computing, ubiquitous computing implies use on any device, in any location, and in any format"
Ubiquitous computing - Wikipedia
Ubiquitous computing (or "ubicomp") is a concept in software engineering, hardware engineering and computer science where computing is made to appear seamlessly anytime and everywhere. In contrast to…
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October 27, 2026 at 4:42 PM
TIL the phrase "Ubicomp":
"Ubiquitous computing (or "ubicomp") is a concept in software engineering where computing is made to appear seamlessly anytime and everywhere. In contrast to desktop computing, ubiquitous computing implies use on any device, in any location, and in any format"
"Ubiquitous computing (or "ubicomp") is a concept in software engineering where computing is made to appear seamlessly anytime and everywhere. In contrast to desktop computing, ubiquitous computing implies use on any device, in any location, and in any format"
New paper: AppetiteCheck, at IMWUT (Ubicomp)!
Can vagus stimulation serve as a low-effort intervention for overeating? In our study, participants ate 9.6% less and 23.6% slower during stimulation than sham!
Led by Tan Gemicioglu & Tanzeem Choudhury, also w/ Jas Brooks & myself as co-authors.
Can vagus stimulation serve as a low-effort intervention for overeating? In our study, participants ate 9.6% less and 23.6% slower during stimulation than sham!
Led by Tan Gemicioglu & Tanzeem Choudhury, also w/ Jas Brooks & myself as co-authors.
October 24, 2026 at 5:05 PM
New paper: AppetiteCheck, at IMWUT (Ubicomp)!
Can vagus stimulation serve as a low-effort intervention for overeating? In our study, participants ate 9.6% less and 23.6% slower during stimulation than sham!
Led by Tan Gemicioglu & Tanzeem Choudhury, also w/ Jas Brooks & myself as co-authors.
Can vagus stimulation serve as a low-effort intervention for overeating? In our study, participants ate 9.6% less and 23.6% slower during stimulation than sham!
Led by Tan Gemicioglu & Tanzeem Choudhury, also w/ Jas Brooks & myself as co-authors.
A new arXiv paper introduces OnBodyAI, arguing the next generation of AI will succeed by being personalized to users rather than by knowing more about the world, outlining ten key statements from a UbiComp/ISWC…
#AI #OnBodyAI #WearableComputing #UbiquitousComputing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.21137
#AI #OnBodyAI #WearableComputing #UbiquitousComputing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.21137
October 16, 2026 at 6:01 PM
A new arXiv paper introduces OnBodyAI, arguing the next generation of AI will succeed by being personalized to users rather than by knowing more about the world, outlining ten key statements from a UbiComp/ISWC…
#AI #OnBodyAI #WearableComputing #UbiquitousComputing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.21137
#AI #OnBodyAI #WearableComputing #UbiquitousComputing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.21137
Next week at #UbiCompISWC2026, @jhu.edu computer scientists will present “RF-HOI: Recognize Human-Object Interaction with Radio Frequency Signals,” the first framework that only uses radio frequency signals for HOI recognition. Learn more here: theeagleofthedesert.github.io/RF-HOI/
October 9, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Next week at #UbiCompISWC2026, @jhu.edu computer scientists will present “RF-HOI: Recognize Human-Object Interaction with Radio Frequency Signals,” the first framework that only uses radio frequency signals for HOI recognition. Learn more here: theeagleofthedesert.github.io/RF-HOI/
every week I get new material for my module on ubicomp / internet of things / sensing systems
I have a lecture subseries in it called "IoT in the world" which has basically become a catalog of terrible things
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
I have a lecture subseries in it called "IoT in the world" which has basically become a catalog of terrible things
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘Dystopian’: Co-op becomes latest firm to put staff under AI surveillance
Whistleblower says recording and analysis of all probate calls in Co-op Legal Services is oppressive
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2026 at 12:38 PM
every week I get new material for my module on ubicomp / internet of things / sensing systems
I have a lecture subseries in it called "IoT in the world" which has basically become a catalog of terrible things
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
I have a lecture subseries in it called "IoT in the world" which has basically become a catalog of terrible things
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Back when the buzzword was still “ubicomp”
October 1, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Back when the buzzword was still “ubicomp”
Lakoff and Johnson – Metaphors We Live By (Ch1)
Bleeker, Foster, and Nova – The Manual of Design Fiction
Mark Weiser – Various writings on Ubicomp
Dourish and Bell – Divining a Digital Future (Ch1)
Nielsen and Matuschak – How can we develop transformative tools for thought?
Bleeker, Foster, and Nova – The Manual of Design Fiction
Mark Weiser – Various writings on Ubicomp
Dourish and Bell – Divining a Digital Future (Ch1)
Nielsen and Matuschak – How can we develop transformative tools for thought?
December 20, 2024 at 8:46 AM
Lakoff and Johnson – Metaphors We Live By (Ch1)
Bleeker, Foster, and Nova – The Manual of Design Fiction
Mark Weiser – Various writings on Ubicomp
Dourish and Bell – Divining a Digital Future (Ch1)
Nielsen and Matuschak – How can we develop transformative tools for thought?
Bleeker, Foster, and Nova – The Manual of Design Fiction
Mark Weiser – Various writings on Ubicomp
Dourish and Bell – Divining a Digital Future (Ch1)
Nielsen and Matuschak – How can we develop transformative tools for thought?
Webinos ubicomp OS had a hub spoke model where it was expected most users had their own hub thing. Really interesting embedded OS effort. Basically gone now.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webinos
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webinos
Webinos - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 19, 2026 at 6:02 AM
Webinos ubicomp OS had a hub spoke model where it was expected most users had their own hub thing. Really interesting embedded OS effort. Basically gone now.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webinos
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webinos
If someone would kindly use Open Screen Protocol for these things, that'd be rad. Use the standards! (The name is a misnomer: it's very much a web-browser ubicomp device that can be either screen or audio and ideally maybe neither.)
I know I should just do it myself but alas, I haven't.
I know I should just do it myself but alas, I haven't.
November 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
If someone would kindly use Open Screen Protocol for these things, that'd be rad. Use the standards! (The name is a misnomer: it's very much a web-browser ubicomp device that can be either screen or audio and ideally maybe neither.)
I know I should just do it myself but alas, I haven't.
I know I should just do it myself but alas, I haven't.
It's patently absurd that we have this weird ecosystem where ubicomp doesn't work with actual computers at all, where there's no protocols for any of this. I *have* to have a Chromecast audio to do this. Absurd. Open Screen Protocol where art thou?
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 AM
It's patently absurd that we have this weird ecosystem where ubicomp doesn't work with actual computers at all, where there's no protocols for any of this. I *have* to have a Chromecast audio to do this. Absurd. Open Screen Protocol where art thou?
But I do think there is a dimension, of what % of the world about us is scriptable, that is enormously important to the net question here.
We need both. Instrinsically beautiful code/info spaces, post-industrial. *Also* access to the things around us. #ubicomp
bsky.app/profile/jaun...
We need both. Instrinsically beautiful code/info spaces, post-industrial. *Also* access to the things around us. #ubicomp
bsky.app/profile/jaun...
I do anything but idolize computing as it is. The scene is overwhelmed by industrial purpose & industrial design, makes no effort to raise up cohesive human accessible information spaces, to expose itself & enable play. What we have sucks.
But that distance only heights anticipation of better.
But that distance only heights anticipation of better.
August 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
But I do think there is a dimension, of what % of the world about us is scriptable, that is enormously important to the net question here.
We need both. Instrinsically beautiful code/info spaces, post-industrial. *Also* access to the things around us. #ubicomp
bsky.app/profile/jaun...
We need both. Instrinsically beautiful code/info spaces, post-industrial. *Also* access to the things around us. #ubicomp
bsky.app/profile/jaun...
Pervasive & Ubiquitous Computing (#ubicomp)! #wearable computing! Ambient computing! Agents! Mobile computing! @brucespringsteen.net #splime 's.
What a horizon of possibilities ahead!
So many of these things sort of exist today in little pieces. Have found ways in.
What a horizon of possibilities ahead!
So many of these things sort of exist today in little pieces. Have found ways in.
June 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Pervasive & Ubiquitous Computing (#ubicomp)! #wearable computing! Ambient computing! Agents! Mobile computing! @brucespringsteen.net #splime 's.
What a horizon of possibilities ahead!
So many of these things sort of exist today in little pieces. Have found ways in.
What a horizon of possibilities ahead!
So many of these things sort of exist today in little pieces. Have found ways in.
Seems no more likely but maybe perhaps one of these standalone AR headsets may some day run an OK Linux?
Not the target I want but I'd like something #ubicomp to work with. Some base materials.
Not the target I want but I'd like something #ubicomp to work with. Some base materials.
March 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Seems no more likely but maybe perhaps one of these standalone AR headsets may some day run an OK Linux?
Not the target I want but I'd like something #ubicomp to work with. Some base materials.
Not the target I want but I'd like something #ubicomp to work with. Some base materials.
To me the ubiquitous/pervasive computing (#ubicomp) idea was built around a base programmability of systems around us.
If Matter or whatever standard actually offered a reasonable way for regular people to touch it programmatically, that might be an entrance to computational thinking?
If Matter or whatever standard actually offered a reasonable way for regular people to touch it programmatically, that might be an entrance to computational thinking?
March 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
To me the ubiquitous/pervasive computing (#ubicomp) idea was built around a base programmability of systems around us.
If Matter or whatever standard actually offered a reasonable way for regular people to touch it programmatically, that might be an entrance to computational thinking?
If Matter or whatever standard actually offered a reasonable way for regular people to touch it programmatically, that might be an entrance to computational thinking?
Part of me assumed the #ubicomp revolution would be real, that wireless networking to our devices would fill in where wires once were.
Wireless USB - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Part of me assumed the #ubicomp revolution would be real, that wireless networking to our devices would fill in where wires once were.
I think we really got stuck after Rest, failed to meaningfully embed inter-system connection across systems. Pervasive & #ubiquitous computing (#ubicomp) has peaked at #Chromecast seemingly. Expected much better. #Matter limping along but short of the presented ideal.
#DSoftBus abstracts up. Yay!
#DSoftBus abstracts up. Yay!
January 5, 2024 at 6:25 PM
I think we really got stuck after Rest, failed to meaningfully embed inter-system connection across systems. Pervasive & #ubiquitous computing (#ubicomp) has peaked at #Chromecast seemingly. Expected much better. #Matter limping along but short of the presented ideal.
#DSoftBus abstracts up. Yay!
#DSoftBus abstracts up. Yay!
Attending Ubicomp'25...the basic email analysis shows how authors from different countries contributed. India is buried under "others."
October 14, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Attending Ubicomp'25...the basic email analysis shows how authors from different countries contributed. India is buried under "others."
"“Everyday life,” indeed, has been a major focus of attention for many in ubicomp, in an attempt to understand how technology operates outside of the laboratory and outside of the office and workplace settings that characterized much early research in interactive technologies... The term […]
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mas.to
September 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
"“Everyday life,” indeed, has been a major focus of attention for many in ubicomp, in an attempt to understand how technology operates outside of the laboratory and outside of the office and workplace settings that characterized much early research in interactive technologies... The term […]
So many bangers:
"many have noted that the failure of many programs in domestic ubicomp have often been based on models that imagine that domestic spaces operate in similar ways to the office spaces in which the technologies are designed, and that the way to turn an office into a prototype home […]
"many have noted that the failure of many programs in domestic ubicomp have often been based on models that imagine that domestic spaces operate in similar ways to the office spaces in which the technologies are designed, and that the way to turn an office into a prototype home […]
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mas.to
September 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
So many bangers:
"many have noted that the failure of many programs in domestic ubicomp have often been based on models that imagine that domestic spaces operate in similar ways to the office spaces in which the technologies are designed, and that the way to turn an office into a prototype home […]
"many have noted that the failure of many programs in domestic ubicomp have often been based on models that imagine that domestic spaces operate in similar ways to the office spaces in which the technologies are designed, and that the way to turn an office into a prototype home […]
#LTE scales down… Half-duplex, low bitrate, years of battery life: <a href="http://j.mp/12I31cQ" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://j.mp/12I31cQ - great for ubiquitous computing. #mobile #ubicomp
November 18, 2024 at 7:43 AM
#LTE scales down… Half-duplex, low bitrate, years of battery life: <a href="http://j.mp/12I31cQ" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://j.mp/12I31cQ - great for ubiquitous computing. #mobile #ubicomp