The ubiquitous computing seminar will continue this summer with informal, weekly lunch discussions on the Ave.  The discussion topic, restaurant, and some optional reading for each lunch will be posted below, and announced about a week in advance.  The lunches are tentatively scheduled on Wednesdays from about 12:20 to 1:20.

July Readings                         August Readings

August 6, 2003  - Context-Aware Computing and User Control
Restaurant:    Still Life on the Ave Cafe  -  1405 NE 50th,   (729-3542)
Optional Papers:  
Is Context-Aware Computing Taking Control Away from the User?  Three Levels of Interactivity Examined
Barkhuus, L., Dey, A.K.  UBICOMP 2003, 5th International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing, to appear. October 12-15, 2003.
 
Designing a Home of the Future
S. S. Intille,   IEEE Pervasive Computing, April-June 2002, pp. 80-86.

 
 
 

August 13, 2003  - Novel Wireless Communication Techniques and their Applications
Restaurant:   Cedar's Restaurant  -  1319 NE 43rd,  (632-7708)
Optional Papers:  
Context-Aware Computing with Sound 
A. Madhavapeddy, D. Scott, R. Sharp, To appear in UBICOMP 2003, October 2003

Very Low-Cost Sensing and Communication Using Bidirectional LEDs
Paul Dietz, William Yerazunis, Darren Leigh, To appear in UBICOMP 2003, October 2003

 
 
 

August 20, 2003  - Cancelled
Restaurant:  N/A
Optional Papers:
N/A

 
 
 

August 27, 2003  - Automated Generation of User Interfaces for Complex Appliances
Restaurant:   Agua Verde Cafe and Paddle Club  -  1303 NE Boat St,   (545-8570)
Optional Papers:
Generating Remote Control Interfaces for Complex Appliances
J. Nichols, B. A. Myers, M. Higgins, J. Hughes, T. K. Harris, R. Rosenfeld, M. Pignol. 
CHI Letters: UIST'02, 27-30 Oct. 2002, Paris, France. pp. 161-170.

Automatically Personalizing User Interfaces
D. Weld, C. Anderson, P. Domingos, O. Etzioni, T. Lau, K. Gajos, and S. Wolfman
In Proceedings of IJCAI-03. 2003

 
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