Mobile Phones as Ubiquitous Computing Platform -- the "Place-Its" Study
Thursday, April 20, 2006
6:30 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.
Join your colleagues at the next meeting of The San Diego Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), featuring Dr. William Griswold of UC San Diego and Cal-(IT)2. He will discuss how mobile phones are replacing the desktop as the predominant computing-and-communications platform. (You may remember Dr. Griswold ... he gave a great talk on Aspect Oriented Programming last March.)
There will be light snacks and great door prizes ... please reserve your seat (see below) before it's too late!
We will meet at 6:30PM at Sun Microsystems in the UTC area: 9515 Towne Centre Drive. Parking is free of charge. The meeting cost is $3 for reservations paid in advance via PayPal or $5 at the door -- free for chapter members.
The meeting is open to the public. For more information, call (858) 452-8701 or visit http://www.sdacm.org .
(We are also pleased to acknowledge the generous support of Sun Microsystems, That Technical Bookstore, and UCSD Extension.)
Bring your colleagues and friends -- we hope to see you there!
Seat Reservations
Please reserve a seat using our new reservations and payment form -- there is a discount for reserving and paying using this form.
If you cannot use the reservations form (it saves us a lot of work if you can), send us an email or call (858) 452-8701.
Please reserve your seat by April 19..
Abstract:
Mobile phones promise to replace the desktop as the predominant computing-and-communications platform. Yet, simply reproducing desktop application concepts in a small form factor--e-mail, web browsing, and streaming video, to name a few--cannot achieve this promise. A new vision for mobile computing is required. A critical yet underexplored element of this vision is the use of personal context.
For example, early studies showed that context-awareness can improve the usefulness of automated reminders, but little is known about how a context-aware reminder application might be used throughout a person's daily life. Mobile phones provide a potentially convenient and truly ubiquitous platform for the detection of personal context such as location, as well as the delivery of reminders. To study people using location-aware reminders throughout their daily lives, we designed Place-Its, a location-based reminder application that runs on mobile phones. This talk describes the design of Place-Its and a two-week exploratory user study. The study reveals that location-based reminders are useful, in large part because people use location in nuanced ways.
Other on-going projects relating to mobile phones are briefly discussed.
Presenter Bio:
Bill is a Professor in Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1991. He was the Program Co-Chair for the 2005 International Conference on Software Engineering. His research interests include ubiquitous computing, educational technology, software design, software evolution and design, and software tools. His current projects include the ActiveCampus ubiquitous computing project, WIISARD - Wireless Internet Information System for Medical Response in Disasters, Ubiquitous Presenter - a web-based extension to UW Classroom Presenter, and XPIs -an interface-based design method for aspect-oriented software development.
Meeting Charge
The meeting costs $5 payable at the door or $3 payable via advanced reservation using our reservations and payment form at -- chapter members get in free. (You can save approximately 50% by purchasing an annual SDACM Membership at the door for only $12 -- or $10 using the reservations and payment form -- see membership policy for more details.)
RSVP Policy
We strongly encourage you to let us know if you plan to attend this meeting. We expect this meeting to be very well attended, and we may run out of space. In that case, attendees with reservations will be given admittance and seating preference. See RSVP policy for more details.
Directions
From North or South I-805) Exit West onto La Jolla Village Drive. Turn RIGHT (North) onto Towne Centre Drive. Proceed straight through the next two stoplights. Turn RIGHT (East) into the first or second driveway. The building is the one at the right (South) of the parking lot. This is the building labelled Sun SAN10.
Free parking anywhere.
As it is after hours, the lobby will be locked. A Sun employee will let you into the building. You will be escorted into the Gaslamp Conference Room.
A map can be found here.
