The Challenge of Widespread Ubiquitous Computing

广泛普适计算的挑战

• 批准号: EP/F03038X/1
• 负责人: Steve Benford
• 金额: $ 128.14万
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FF03038X%2F1
• 关键词: Challenge; Widespread; Ubiquitous; Computing

Ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) concerns the embedding and distribution of computing into the world around us. The Mixed Reality Laboratory (MRL) at the University of Nottingham has been at the forefront of international ubicomp research for the past six years, creating new ubiquitous devices, establishing the distributed software platforms that are required to knit many such devices together, working with external partners to demonstrate innovative and creative applications of ubicomp, and studying these and then generalising the lessons learned into new design concepts and frameworks. Much of this research has been carried out within EPSRC's Equator project, a six-year, ten million pound Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration that involved eight UK universities and that was led by the MRL. Through Equator and other projects we have successfully laid the foundations for a new interdisciplinary approach to ubicomp research that involves taking emerging technologies out of the laboratory and studying them 'in the wild'. In so doing we have placed the UK in a world-leading position in this field.Following the end of Equator, the MRL is seeking platform funding to sustain its research capacity by retaining and further developing key interdisciplinary researchers and by undertaking speculative new projects to chart out the major new challenges that will arise as ubicomp moves from its current state of isolated installations that are maintained by researchers to being widespread and managed by end-users. At the heart of this emerging agenda are the three research challenges of exploring the temporal, spatial and material expansion of ubicomp. These will be charted through a program of speculative pilot projects, sensitising studies and research challenge sandpits. This will be complemented by a focus on developing collaborations where we will work with external partners to explore two key application domains, the creative industries and everyday living. Finally, we will use platform funding to strengthen our core research capacity, developing our research staff and enhancing our supporting methods and software tools. This programme of activities will enable the MRL to continue to shape the agenda for ubiquitous computing over the next five years and the UK to remain at the forefront of research in this rapidly growing field.

普适计算 (ubicomp) 涉及计算在我们周围世界的嵌入和分布。诺丁汉大学的混合现实实验室（MRL）在过去六年中一直处于国际泛计算机研究的前沿，创造了新的普适设备，建立了将许多此类设备编织在一起所需的分布式软件平台，并与外部合作合作伙伴展示泛计算的创新和创造性应用，并研究这些应用，然后将学到的经验教训归纳到新的设计概念和框架中。大部分研究是在 EPSRC 的赤道项目中进行的，这是一个为期六年、耗资 1000 万英镑的跨学科研究合作项目，涉及八所英国大学，由 MRL 领导。通过 Equator 和其他项目，我们成功地为泛计算机研究的新跨学科方法奠定了基础，其中包括将新兴技术带出实验室并“在野外”进行研究。通过这样做，我们使英国在该领域处于世界领先地位。赤道结束后，MRL 正在寻求平台资金，通过保留和进一步发展关键的跨学科研究人员以及开展推测性新项目来维持其研究能力。列出当泛计算机从目前由研究人员维护的孤立安装状态转变为由最终用户广泛使用和管理时，将会出现的主要新挑战。这一新兴议程的核心是探索泛计算机的时间、空间和材料扩展的三个研究挑战。这些将通过一系列推测性试点项目、敏感性研究和研究挑战沙坑来绘制。除此之外，我们还将重点发展合作，与外部合作伙伴共同探索创意产业和日常生活这两个关键应用领域。最后，我们将利用平台资金来加强我们的核心研究能力，培养我们的研究人员并增强我们的支持方法和软件工具。这项活动计划将使 MRL 能够继续制定未来五年普适计算的议程，并使英国在这个快速发展的领域保持在研究的前沿。

项目成果

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• DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518812
• 发表时间: 2009
• 作者: Benford S

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• DOI: 10.1145/1902593.1902600
• 发表时间: 2010
• 期刊: Computers in Entertainment
• 作者: Egglestone S

Supporting traditional music-making

支持传统音乐制作

• DOI: 10.1145/2145204.2145227
• 发表时间: 2012
• 作者: Benford S

The Malthusian Paradox: performance in an alternate reality game

• DOI: 10.1007/s00779-014-0762-7
• 发表时间: 2014-10-01
• 期刊: PERSONAL AND UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING
• 作者: Evans, Elizabeth;Flintham, Martin;Martindale, Sarah
• 通讯作者: Martindale, Sarah

We're All a Bunch of Nutters!: The Production Dynamics of Alternate Reality Games

我们都是一群疯子！：另类现实游戏的制作动态

• 发表时间: 2014
• 期刊: International Journal of Communication
• 影响因子: 1.7
• 作者: Evans, E