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）关注的是将计算嵌入和分布到我们周围的世界中。诺丁汉大学的混合现实实验室（MRL）在过去的六年里一直处于国际ubicomp研究的前沿，创造了新的无处不在的设备，建立了将许多这样的设备编织在一起所需的分布式软件平台，与外部合作伙伴合作，展示ubicomp的创新和创造性应用，并研究这些，然后将学到的经验教训归纳为新的设计概念和框架。这项研究的大部分是在EPSRC的赤道项目中进行的，这是一个为期六年，耗资1000万磅的跨学科研究合作项目，涉及八所英国大学，由MRL领导。通过赤道和其他项目，我们已经成功地奠定了基础，一个新的跨学科的方法来ubicomp研究，涉及到新兴技术的实验室和研究他们“在野外”。在此过程中，我们使英国在这一领域处于世界领先地位。为了维持其研究能力，国防研究实验室正在寻求平台资金，通过保留和进一步发展关键的跨学科研究人员，并通过开展投机性的新项目，以确定随着ubicomp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管理和管理。这个新兴议程的核心是探索ubicomp的时间，空间和物质扩展的三个研究挑战。这些将通过一个投机性试点项目，敏感性研究和研究挑战沙坑的计划来绘制。我们将与外部合作伙伴合作，探索两个关键应用领域，即创意产业和日常生活。最后，我们将利用平台资金加强我们的核心研究能力，发展我们的研究人员，并加强我们的支持方法和软件工具。这项活动计划将使MRL能够在未来五年内继续塑造无处不在的计算议程，并使英国保持在这一快速增长领域的研究前沿。

项目成果

Performing Mixed Reality

• DOI: 10.5860/choice.49-2555
• 发表时间: 2011-08
• 作者: S. Benford;G. Giannachi

From interaction to trajectories

从交互到轨迹

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

Recommending Rides Psychometric Profiling in the Theme Park

主题公园推荐游乐设施心理分析

• 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

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