Reading, Week 1

Extract - ' What is everywhere?'

Having read the extract, I highlighted some quotes from which I believe some to be an definition of pervasive computing and some to be examples. 

bold = definitions

italics = examples 

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Thesis 01

• "...'ubiquitous' meant not merely 'in every place,' but also 'in every thing.' "
• " Ordinary objects, from coffee cups to raincoats to the paint on the walls, would be reconsidered as sites for he sensing and processing of information"
• "And as mobiles phones began to percolate into the world, each of them nothing but a connected computing device, it was inevitable that some one would think to use them as a platform for the delivery of services beyond conversation."
• "Ubiquitous networking: the effort to extent network access to just about any place people would think to go. "
• " Meanwhile, at the human-machine interface, the plummeting cost of processing resources meant that long-dreamed of but computationally-intensive ways of interaction, such as gesture recognition and voice recognition, were becoming practical; they would prove irresistible as elements of a technology that was, after all, supposed to be invisible but everywhere.

Thesis 02

• "interactive surfaces, in which desks, walls, doors and even ceilings were reimagined as input/output devices; 'ambients,' which used phenomena such as sound, light and air currents as peripheral channels to the user; and 'tangibles,' which leveraged the 'graspable and manipulable' qualities of physical objects as provisions of the human interface."

Thesis 03

• "Many such objects are already invested with processing power - most contemporary cameras, watches and phones, to name the most obvious examples, contain micro-controllers..."
• "many embedded microprocessors we encounter elsewhere in our lives, generally without being aware of them. They pump our brakes i our cars, cycle the compressors in our refrigerators, or adjust the water temperature in our washing machines, yet never interact with the wider universe. They cant be queried or addressed by remote systems, let alone interact directly with a human user."
• "..more ambitiously, as we'll see, some designers are exploring how the possibilities inherent in an everyday object can be thoroughly transformed by the application of information technologies like RFID, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and mesh networking.
• "When everyday things are endowed with the ability to sense their environment, store metadata reflecting their own provenance, location, status, and use history, and share that information with other such objects, this cannot help but redefine our relationship with such things."