Continuing with the idea that ubiquitous computing is messy, Antti Oulasvirta writes about his research in Interactions, which includes the following recommendations:
- Minimizing overheads that create temporal seams between activities;
- Making remote but important resources, such as connectivity or cables, better transparent locally and digitally;
- Propagating metadata on migration of data from device to device;
- Supporting ad hoc uses of proximate devices’ resources like projectors, keyboards, and displays;
- Triggering digital events like synchronization of predetermined documents with physical gestures; and
- Supporting appropriation of material properties for support surfaces
Link: When users ‘do’ the ubicomp (acm.org, also interactions.acm.org)
