Interdisciplinary Foundations for Ubiquitous Computing

信息技术对社会的影响已经非常深远，它重塑了工作、教育、政府、休闲、娱乐和家庭生活。强大的数字基础设施、无线网络和移动的设备的出现已经开始将计算机嵌入日常生活的建筑、家具和个人结构中。虽然曾经我们会与一台计算机进行交互，但移动的电话、数码相机、卫星导航、手持计算机和许多类似的设备今天在我们的日常活动中是司空见惯的。这种向“普适计算”的转变是一个挑战，它影响到计算机科学的各个方面，并对我们未来如何推理、构建和体验计算机系统产生了巨大的影响。这是一个基本的跨学科的努力和泛在计算的进步取决于成功的融合的角度从计算科学，复杂的分布式系统的工程和他们在社会环境中的使用的理解。这意味着，除了对每个组成领域进行基础研究外，我们还需要促进这些观点之间的互动和对话。一个关键的问题是，无处不在的计算的跨学科的基础还没有出现，每个不同的社区之间的沟通是有限的。提出这项研究金建议的动机是担心，如果不在无处不在的计算所涉研究工作与开发使无处不在的计算各组成部分能够相互交流的方法和技术之间建立强有力的联系，这一领域的进展将受到严重阻碍。在这个奖学金，我寻求建立在我的跨学科社区的形成和我的工作在赤道IRC与这些不同的社区密切合作，以开发一套关键的跨学科的原则，技术和方法，以帮助支持未来的进步无处不在的计算我的经验。

The impact of IT on society has already been profound, reshaping work, education, government, leisure, entertainment, and home life. The emergence of powerful digital infrastructures, wireless networks and mobile devices has started to embed computers into the architectures, furniture and personal fabric of everyday life. While once we would interact with one computer mobile phones, digital cameras, satellite navigation, handheld computers and a host of similar devices are today commonplace in our everyday activities. This shift to 'Ubiquitous Computing' is a challenge that affects all aspects of computer science and has massive implications for how we might reason about, build and experience computer systems in the future. This is a fundamentally interdisciplinary endeavour and advances in Ubiquitous Computing depend on the successful blending of perspectives drawn from the science of computing, the engineering of complex distributed systems and the understanding of their use in social settings. This means that in addition to undertaking fundamental research into each of the constituent areas we also need to promote interaction and dialogue across these perspectives. A key problem is that the interdisciplinary foundations of ubiquitous computing have yet to emerge and communication between each of the different communities involved is limited. This fellowship proposal is motivated by the concerned that without the formation of strong links between the research endeavours involved in ubiquitous computing and the development of approaches and techniques to allow the constituent parts of ubiquitous computing to talk to each other progress in this area will be significant inhibited. Within this fellowship I seek to build upon my experiences in the formation of interdisciplinary communities and my work within the Equator IRC to work closely with these different communities in order to develop a key set of interdisciplinary principles, technique and approaches to help underpin future advances in ubiquitous computing.