Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Reading List

CS 7470 Spring 2001

Summaries of these readings as well as links to lecture discussions can be found starting at the CoWeb discussion space on Reading Summaries.

• History and Vision

  • Vannevar Bush. As We May Think. Atlantic Monthly, July 1945. HTML version
  • J.C.R. Licklider. Man-Computer Symbiosis. IRE Transactions of Human Factors in Electronics, Volume HFE-1, pp. 4-11, March 1960. PDF version, pages 1-20 only.
  • Douglas Engelbart. Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework. Stanford Research Institute, October 1962. HTML version. This is LONG, but parts are worth perusing.
  • Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg. Personal Dynamic Media. IEEE Computer, March 1977, pp. 31-41. Not available on-line. Instructors will provide.
  • Sun Microsystems. Profile: Ivan Sutherland, Sun Fellow and VP of Sun Microsystems. Focus attention on sections about Sketchpad and Virtual Reality
  • Howard Rheingold. Tools for Thought. Simon & Schuster, 1985. HTML version of entire text. Of particular interest are chapters 7, 9, 11, and 12.
  • Mark Weiser. The Computer for the 21st Century, Scientific American, September 1991, pp. 94-104. HTML draft available from www.ubiq.com.
  • The Invention of the First Wearable Computer. E.O. Thorp

• Physical limits of computing

  • There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom, classic 1959 essay by Richard P. Feynman
  • Thad Starner. Human-powered wearable computing. IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 35, No. 3&4, 1996 MIT Media Lab. Postscript
  • Mike Johnson. Physical limits of portable power storage. Draft internal tech report. MIT Media Lab (not for public consumption). Postscript version
  • Martin, T. and Siewiorek, D. Non-Ideal Battery Properties and Low Power Operation in Wearable Computing. ISWC 99, October 1999. (PDF)
  • Thad Starner. Heat Dissipation in Wearable Computers. Postscript
  • Intel's Mobile Power Guidelines PDF or Postscript (level 2)

• Human load bearing and wearable placement

  • Symbol's development of a inventory control wearable computer
  • Starner thesis chapter on human load bearing
  • Gemperle et al. Design for Wearability

• Networking topics

  • General networking references
    • Carvey BodyLAN paper
    • C.K. Toh's Infrastructureless Computing over Buzznet web page
    • Douglas E. Comer. Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume 1, Principles, Protocols, and Architectures, Third Edition. Prentice Hall, 1995. A popular introductory reference on internetworking. More information is available at the Prentice Hall Web site on the book.
    • IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee". Information on IEEE-sponsored networking standards. CMSA/CD (Ethernet) standard is 802.3. Wireless is discussed in 802.11.
    • Ohio State archive of Internet RFCs.
    • Mobile IP information from IETF.
    • IPv6 information

  • Interacting with paper

    • Forget-me-not by Lamming
    • DigitalDesk by Wellner
  • General wireless networking information.
    • WWW Virtual Library on Mobile and Wireless Computing hosted at Stanford.
    • Wireless LAN/MAN Modem Product Directory
    • Aline BAGGIO's Bookmarks on Mobile Computing. A huge bookmark file of places doing work in mobile computing, plus a link to a huge bibliography on mobile computing.
    • FCE's own Wireless Projects, Vendors, and Products resource page.
    • PricewaterhouseCoopers Technology Centre. Technology Forecast: 1999, 1998. Information on ordering can be obtained at the PWC Technology Group Web site.
    • Tutorials on wireless technologies from Motorola.
    • GSM information, including historical accounts, technology description and future trends.
  • Ubicomp-friendly networking solutions
    • IrDA
    • CEBus. This standard has been realized for powerline networking, but can be extended to include wireless solutions as well. Some better technical information can be found at here and here from the Intellon Web site.
    • Bluetooth consortium. And another Bluetooth site.
    • HomeRF
    • Piconet from AT&T Research Labs Cambridge (formerly ORL). One tech report of interest can be found here, as a compressed Postscript file.
    • JetSend from Hewlett-Packard. The HP site has some advertising info and access to SDKs. The California Software Laboratories site contains some white papers on JetSend.
    • Piano from Motorola. Also refer to this brief whitepaper from Motorola
  • On-the-body networks
    • Barber, Thomas Jr., P. Carvey and A. Chandrakasan. Designing for Wireless LAN Communications. IEEE Circuits and Devices, Vol. 4 No. 12, July 1996. To be handed out in class.
    • T. G. Zimmerman. Personal Area Networks: Near-field intrabody communication. IBM Systems Journal Vol. 35, No. 3&4, 1996 - MIT Media Lab. (HTML version. Other formats available from HTML page.)
    • Post, R. et al. Intrabody Buses for Data and Power. Physics and Media, MIT Media Laboratory. (PDF version).
  • RF ID
    • General RF ID site
    • Virginia Tech FAQ on RFID
    • Transponder News on detailed RFID info

• Wearable-specific readings

  • Thad Starner. The Cyborgs are Coming. Submitted to Wired, quite a few years ago. :) (plain text)

• Positioning systems

  • Global Positioning System, a collection of links, the one from University of Texas being particularly useful.
  • Christopher Verplaetse. Inertial proprioceptive devices: Self-motion-sensing toys and tools. IBM Systems Journal Vol. 35, No. 3&4, 1996. (HTML). Other formats available from Web site.
  • WiData Corporation, makers of a RF ID-based tracking system.
  • PinPoint Corporation, makers of a local positioning system (LPS) called 3D-iD we use in the Future Computing Lab in CRB. We will also hand out copies of a white paper on the PinPoint technology from IEEE Spectrum.

• Application Themes

  • Want, R.; Schilit, W.; Adams, N.; Gold, R.; Petersen, K.; Goldberg, D.; Ellis, J.; Weiser, M. An overview of the PARCTAB ubiquitous computing experiment. IEEE Personal Communications. 1995 December; 2(6): 28-43. abstract with access to HTML and Postscript plus local Postscript copy.
  • Abowd, G. and Mynatt, E. Ubiquitous Computing: Past, Present and Future. DRAFT!! (To be published in TOCHI). PDF
  • Gershman. Situated Computing: Bridging the Gap between Intention and Action. ISWC 99, October 1999. (PDF)

    Tangible/Graspable UI

  • Urp: a luminous-tangible workbench for urban planning and design (Underkoffler and Ishii ) PDF
  • Squeeze me, hold me, tilt me! An exploration of manipulative user interfaces (Harrison, Fishkin, Gujar, Mochon, and Want) PDF
  • Design and technology for collaborage: collaborative collages of information on physical walls (Moran, Saund, van Melle, Gujar, Fishkin and Harrison) PDF
  • Bricks: Laying the Foundations for Graspable User Interfaces (Fitzmaurice, Ishii and Buxton) " HTML
  • Exploring Brick-Based Navigation and Composition in an Augmented Reality (Fjeld, Voorhorst, Bichsel, Lauche, Rauterberg, and Kreuger) PDF

    We'll read these later

  • Daniel Salber, Anind K. Dey and Gregory D. Abowd. The Context Toolkit: Aiding the Development of Context-Enabled Applications. CHI'99 (to appear), Pittsburgh, PA, May 15-20,1999. (PDF)
  • Minneman, S. et al. "A confederation of tools for capturing and accessing collaborative activity", Proceedings of Multimedia '95, November 1995, pp. 523-534. Handed out in class
  • Jason A. Brotherton, Janak R. Bhalodia, and Gregory D. Abowd. Automated Capture, Integration, and Visualization of Multiple Media Streams. In the Proceedings of IEEE Multimedia '98, July, 1998. (HTML)

• Input technologies

  • RSI Community FAQ. Pay particular attention to the alternative keyboard, pointing devices and accessories listsings.
  • Input Device Sources and Resources. A lengthy listing of input devices compiled by Bill Buxon.
  • William A. S. Buxton. A Three-State Model of Graphical Input, Proceedings of IFIP INTERACT'90: Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 449-456, 1990. (HTML)
  • Stuart K. Card, Jock D. Mackinlay and George G. Robertson. The Design Space of Input Devices. In Proceedings of ACM CHI'90 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 117-124, 1990. Copies to be handed out in class

• Output

  • Sawhney, N and Schmandt, C. Nomadic radio: scaleable and contextual notification for wearable audio messaging. Proceeding of CHI 99 pp. 96 - 103, 1999. (PDF)
  • Pompei, F. J. Audio Spotlight. (HTML)
  • Jeff Gerth Chapter 11 "Design Issues in Human Performance-based Test and Evaluation of HMDs" in James E. Melzer and Kirk Moffitt. Head Mounted Displays. McGraw-Hill 1997.
  • Mordekhai Velger Helmet-mounted Displays and Sights. Artech House, Inc. 1998.

• Wearable Applications

  • Development of a Commercially Successful Wearable Data Collection System. R. Stein, S. Ferrero, M. Hetfield, A. Quinn, and M. Krichever
  • Adtranz: A Mobile Computing System for Maintenance and Collaboration. D. Siewiorek, A. Smailagic, L. Bass, J. Siegel, R. Martin and B. Bennington
  • Preliminary Investigation of Wearable Computers for Task Guidance in Aircraft Inspection. J.J. Ockerman and A.R. Pritchett
  • Augment-able Reality: Situated Communication through Physical and Digital Spaces. J. Rekimoto, Y. Ayatsuka, and K. Hayashi
  • Dealing with Speed and Robustness Issues for Video-Based Registration on a Wearable Computing Platform L.-T. Cheng and J. Robinson
  • A Wearable Spatial Conferencing Space. M. Billinghurst, J. Bowskill, M. Jessop, and J. Morphett. L.-T. Cheng and J. Robinson
  • Adding Generic Contextual Capabilities to Wearable Computers. J. Pascoe
  • Speaking and Listening on the Run: Design for Wearable Audio Computing. N. Sawhney and C. Schmandt
  • Dynamic Connection of Wearable Computers to Companion Devices using Near-Field Radio. P. Neaves and J. Bedford-Roberts
  • A Wearable Haptic Navigation Guidance System. S. Ertan, C. Lee, A. Willets, H. Tan, and A. Pentland
  • The People Sensor: A Mobility Aid for the Visually Impaired. S. Ram and J. Sharf
  • MIA: A Wearable Computer for Bridge Inspectors. J. Sunkpho, J.H. Garret, Jr., A. Smailagic, and D.P. Siewiorek
  • Mobile Approach Support System for Future Machine Tools. R. Daude and M. Weck
  • Touring Machine: Prototyping 3D Mobile Augmented Reality Systems for Exploring the Urban Environment. S. Feiner, B. MacIntyre, T. Hollerer, and A. Webster
  • A Sensate Liner for Personnel Monitoring Applications. E.J. Lind, S. Jayaraman, S. Park, R. Rajamanickam, R. Eisler, G. Burghart, and T. McKee
  • The Wearable Remembrance Agent: A System for Augmented Memory. B.J. Rhodes
  • A Wearable Computer Based American Sign Language Recognizer. T. Starner, J. Weaver, and A. Pentland
  • Stochasticks: Augmenting the Billiards Experience with Probabilistic Vision and Wearable Computers. T. Jebara, C. Eyster, J. Weaver, T. Starner, and A. Pentland
  • Artificial Synesthesia via Sonification: A Wearable Augmented Sensory System. L.N. Foner
  • The Digital Doctor: An Experiment in Wearable Telemedicine. A.P. Pentland, M. Petrazzuoli, A. Gerega, A.P. Pentland, and T. Starner
  • Augmented Reality Through Wearable Computing, by Thad Starner, Steve Mann, Bradley Rhodes, Jeffrey Levine, Jennifer Healey, Dana Kirsch, Rosalind W. Picard, and Alex Pentland. gzip'd postscript (big!)
  • Everyday Use of Wearable Computers. Thad Starner Unfortunately, this is the raw Latex from a thesis chapter. Sorry for the ugliness.

• Privacy/Security

  • Video from ISWC'98 Privacy Panel Its about 3/4 of the way down the page in an invited speaker section.
  • Lenny Foner's Phd thesis should have some good background on privacy and is an example of engineering technology to protect privacy.

• Software Engineering Issues

  • Gregory Abowd. Software engineering issues for ubiquitous computing. To appear in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering - ICSE'99, Los Angeles, CA, May 1999. (HTML)
  • Gregory Abowd and Beth Mynatt "Charting Past, Present and Future Research in Ubiquitous Computing" Trans. on Computer Human Interaction paper
• Integration technologies
  • Jini from Sun Microsystems
  • JavaSpaces from Sun Microsystems
  • Millennium from Microsoft
  • Universal Plug and Play from Microsoft
  • Inferno from Lucent
  • Group of Tuple space-type work for distributed computing T-Spaces from IBM. Another useful link is here
  • InfernoSpaces from Lucent
  • Home Audio Visual interoperability consortium
  • HP's ChaiAppliance Plug and Play. To get to the Plug and Play white paper, go to Products, and then select ChaiServer.
  • Inter-Language Unification from Xerox PARC.
• Special-purpose operating systems
  • Microsoft WindowsCE
  • Embedded Java and Personaljava

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