Notes:

• All readings are provided as a download here. Some papers are only accessible from the UCSD campus or using the UCSD web proxy (see proxy server setup instructions).

• Unless otherwise stated, a class meeting format is ``discussion''. Details on the presentation format or assigned reading is subject to change.

Week 1: Laying the groundwork

• Monday, 9/26 Lisa Cowan presents [slides]
  • Intro to ubicomp and the course

• Wednesday, 9/28 A Vision
  • Class web site, especially material on preparing for and participating in discussion.
  • M. Weiser, The Computer for the 21st Century. Scientific American, pp. 66-75, September 1991.

Week 2

• Monday, 10/3
  • Karl D.D. Willis, Ivan Poupyrev, and Takaaki Shiratori. 2011. Motionbeam: a metaphor for character interaction with handheld projectors. In Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1031-1040.

• Wednesday 10/5 Multitouch table demo by James McCloskey
  • Jefferson Y. Han. 2005. Low-cost multi-touch sensing through frustrated total internal reflection. In Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '05). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 115-118.
  • Johnny Chung Lee, "Hacking the Nintendo Wii Remote," IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 39-45, July-September, 2008.

Week 3

• Monday, 10/10
  • Brown, B., A. Taylor, S. Izadi, A. Sellen, and J. Kaye (2007) Locating Family Values: A Field Trial of the Whereabouts Clock. Proceedings of UBICOMP 2007, Springer.

• Wednesday, 10/12
  • Robert Hardy, Enrico Rukzio, Paul Holleis, Matthias Wagner. MyState: Sharing Social and Contextual Information through Touch Interactions with Tagged Objects. Proceedings of MobileHCI 2011.

Week 4:

• Monday, 10/17
  • Juang, P., Oki, H., Wang, Y., Martonosi, M., Peh, L. S., and Rubenstein, D. 2002. Energy-efficient computing for wildlife tracking: design tradeoffs and early experiences with ZebraNet. ASPLOS'02: SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. 36, 5 (Dec. 2002), 96-107.

• Wednesday, 10/19
  • Stacey Kuznetsov, William Odom, James Pierce, Eric Paulos. Nurturing Natural Sensors. Proceedings of Ubicomp 2011.

Week 5

• Monday, 10/24 Guest lecture/demo by Nadir Weibel on pen-and-paper computing [slides]
  • Required
    • Anne Marie Piper, Nadir Weibel and James D. Hollan, Introducing Multimodal Paper-Digital Interfaces for Speech-Language Therapy, Proceedings of ASSETS 2010, 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility.
  • Optional suggestions for additional reading
    • Anne Marie Piper, Nadir Weibel and James D. Hollan, Write-N-Speak: Authoring Multimodal Digital-Paper Materials for Speech-Language Therapy, Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS).
    • Nadir Weibel, Adam Fouse, Edwin Hutchins and James D. Hollan, Supporting An Integrated Paper-Digital Workflow for Observational Research, Proceedings of IUI 2011, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.
    • Adam Fouse, Nadir Weibel, Edwin Hutchins and James D. Hollan, ChronoViz: A system for supporting navigation of time-coded data, Extended Abstracts of CHI 2011, SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
    • Nadir Weibel, Anne Marie Piper and James D. Hollan, HIPerPaper: Introducing Pen and Paper Interfaces for UltraScale Wall Displays, Demo Proceedings of UIST 2010, 23rd ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.

• Wednesday, 10/26
  • Parikh, T. S., Javid, P., K., S., Ghosh, K., and Toyama, K. 2006. Mobile phones and paper documents: evaluating a new approach for capturing microfinance data in rural India. CHI'06: SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 22 - 27, 2006), pp. 551-560.

Week 6

• Monday, 10/31
  • Pedro Ferreira and Kristina Höök. 2011. Bodily orientations around mobiles: lessons learnt in vanuatu. In Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 277-286.

• Wednesday, 11/2
  • Research project proposal presentations. 5 minute presentation for each team, followed by a brief discussion to provide feedback. You should turn in a ~3 page written proposal, following the outline from the project page. Your presentation should follow this outline as well [template]. In all respects brevity (achieved through focus) will be valued.

Week 7

• Monday, 11/7 Guest lecture by Steve Checkoway on security
  • Karl Koscher, Alexei Czeskis, Franziska Roesner, Shwetak Patel, Tadayoshi Kohno, Stephen Checkoway, Damon McCoy, Brian Kantor, Danny Anderson, Hovav Shacham, Stefan Savage. Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Oakland, CA, May 16.19, 2010.

• Wednesday, 11/9
  • Tamara Denning, Cynthia Matuszek, Karl Koscher, Joshua R. Smith, and Tadayoshi Kohno. 2009. A spotlight on security and privacy risks with future household robots: attacks and lessons. In Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Ubiquitous computing (Ubicomp '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 105-114.

Week 8

• Monday, 11/14 Guest lecture by John McCullough on energy
  • Jon Froehlich, Leah Findlater, and James Landay. 2010. The design of eco-feedback technology. In Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1999-2008.

• Wednesday, 11/16
  • Sidhant Gupta, Matthew S. Reynolds, and Shwetak N. Patel. 2010. ElectriSense: single-point sensing using EMI for electrical event detection and classification in the home. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference on Ubiquitous computing (Ubicomp '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 139-148.

Week 9

• Monday, 11/21
  • Sergi Jordà, Günter Geiger, Marcos Alonso, and Martin Kaltenbrunner. 2007. The reacTable: exploring the synergy between live music performance and tabletop tangible interfaces. In Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Tangible and embedded interaction (TEI '07). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 139-146.

• Wednesday, 11/23
  • Jesse Schell. When games invade real life. "Design outside the box" presentation at Design Innovate Communicate Entertain Summit of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (DICE 2010).

Week 10

• Monday, 11/28
  • Paul Dourish. 2006. Implications for design. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems (CHI '06). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 541-550.

• Wednesday, 11/30 The Future (of UbiComp)
  • Saul Greenberg and Bill Buxton. 2008. Usability evaluation considered harmful (some of the time). In Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '08). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 111-120.