The broken dream of pervasive sentient ambient calm invisible ubiquitous computing

Matthew P. Aylett; Aaron John Quigley

doi:10.1145/2702613.2732508

The broken dream of pervasive sentient ambient calm invisible ubiquitous computing

Matthew P. Aylett, Aaron John Quigley

School of Computer Science

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Abstract

We dreamt of technology becoming invisible, for our wants and needs to be primary and the tools we use for making them a reality to become like a genie, a snap of the fingers and ta daa, everything is realised. What went wrong? Was this always an impossible dream? How did we end up with this fetishised obsession with mobile phones? How did we end up with technology tearing apart our sense of experience and replacing it with 'Likes'. No one meant this to happen, not even US Corporates, they just wanted to own us, not diminish our sense of existing and interacting within the real world. In this paper we consider how tools took over, and how the dream of ubiquitous (or whatever its called) computing was destroyed. We rally rebellious forces and consider how we might fight back, and whether we should even bother trying.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI EA '15 Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	ACM
Pages	425-435
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450331463
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2732508
Publication status	Published - 18 Apr 2015
Event	The 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) - COEX Convention & Exhibition Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 18 Apr 2015 → 23 Apr 2015 http://chi2015.acm.org/

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Conference	The 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
Abbreviated title	CHI2015
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	18/04/15 → 23/04/15
Internet address	http://chi2015.acm.org/

Keywords

Pervasive computing
Ubiquitous computing
Calm computing

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Aylett, MP & Quigley, AJ 2015, The broken dream of pervasive sentient ambient calm invisible ubiquitous computing. in CHI EA '15 Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems . ACM, New York, pp. 425-435, The 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 18/04/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2732508

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