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Everyday Encounters with Context-Aware Computing in a Campus Environment

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UbiComp 2004: Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2004)

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As ubiquitous computing technologies mature, they must move out of laboratory settings and into the everyday world. In the process, they will increasingly be used by heterogeneous groups, made up of individuals with different attitudes and social roles. We have been studying an example of this in a campus setting. Our field work highlights the complex relationships between technology use and institutional arrangements – the roles, relationships, and responsibilities that characterize social settings. In heterogeneous groups, concerns such as location, infrastructure, access, and mobility can take on quite different forms, with very different implications for technology design and use.

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  1. Department of Design and Use of IT, The IT University of Copenhagen, Rued Langgaards Vej 7, Copenhagen, 2300, Denmark

    Louise Barkhuus

  2. Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697-3425, USA

    Paul Dourish

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  1. Computing Department, InfoLab21, Lancaster University, LA1 4WA, Lancaster, UK

    Nigel Davies

  2. GVU Center & School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Elizabeth D. Mynatt

  3. Department of Information Sciences, Ochanomizu University, 2-1-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, 112-8610, Tokyo, Japan

    Itiro Siio

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Barkhuus, L., Dourish, P. (2004). Everyday Encounters with Context-Aware Computing in a Campus Environment. In: Davies, N., Mynatt, E.D., Siio, I. (eds) UbiComp 2004: Ubiquitous Computing. UbiComp 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3205. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30119-6_14

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