Pervasive Technology


Ambient. Wearable. Embedded. In the air. Under your skin.

Overviews
Computers are disappearing into the fabric of our lives.
Ubiquitous Computing - article by Mark Weiser
Inventing the Future - by Tim O'Reilly
UbiComp 2004 - conference on ubiquitous computing
Pervasive Computing - ($) magazine from IEEE Computer Society
The Disappearing Computer - initiative of IST
Cool Hunting - blog by Josh Rubin

Location Awareness
They know where you are.
Whatever Happened to Serendipity - article by Adam Greenfield
GPS World - magazine
Location-Aware Computing - article
GPS Locator - watch for children
dodgeball.com - location-based social software
Write Here, Write Now - article in New Scientist
Cooltown Chills - article in HP World
GeoNotes: Social and Navigational Aspects - article
What is a Place? - article by F. Espinoza , P. Fagerberg, P. Persson
TagandScan - virtual graffiti software
Urban Tapestries - research by Proboscis
WorldBoard - forum by Information in Place
Information in Places - article by Jim Spohrer

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
Identify and track the location of products, pets, and people.
RFID Journal
Radio Frequency Identification - in the Wikipedia
Radio ID Tags: Beyond Bar Codes - article by Kendra Mayfield
Walmart to Deploy Radio ID Tags - article in Computerworld
Radio Frequency ID Tags - articles and news from Vnunet
RFID Systems - articles and news from EPIC
Wheels of Zeus - company by Steve Wozniak
The See-It-All Chip - in Time
When Cash is Only Skin Deep - article in Wired News
VeriChip - product by ADS

Sensors
Devices with eyes, ears, noses, skin, and tongues.
Smart Sensors - article by Paul Saffo
Sensors - essay by Paul Saffo
Sensors Online - magazine
Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Networks - article by NIST
The Smart Sensor Web - article by Vincent Tao
Smart Sensor Web - products from BBN

Smart Dust
Machines so small they float on air. Just don't inhale.
Smart Dust - article in Computerworld
Privacy & Smart Dust - article in Small Times
Dust Networks - company by Kris Pister
Berkeley WEBS - research
Smart Dust Collecting in the Enterprise - article in Internet News

Wearables
Heads-up displays. Biomedical underwear. Mediated reality.
Wearable Computing - at the MIT Media Lab
WearCam - links and photos by Steve Mann
Wearable Computing - site by University of Toronto
Wearable Computing Lab - at the University of Oregon
Wearables Central - links and news
Wearable Computing Lab - at ETH Zurich

Convergent Architecture
Where physical and digital architectures meet.
Swisshouse - article by Jeffrey Huang and Muriel Waldvogel
The Refashion Lab - by Tobi Schneidler
Roomware & Intelligent Buildings - article by P. Krogh, K. Gronbaek
Smart Space Lab - at NIST

Tangible Bits
Giving physical form to digital information and interface.
Tangible Media - led by Hiroshi Ishii
Group for User Interface Research - at UC Berkeley
In Search of Metaphors for TUI - article by D. Svanaes, B. Verplank
TUISTER: A Tangible UI for Hierarchical Structures - article

"People for whom pervasive computing is an abstraction will understand very clearly that the traditional barriers between information and material have changed when the air they breathe might be watching them."
- Howard Rheingold in Smart Mobs