Webeverywhere Short
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The document discusses several examples of ambient technologies including mobile phones, the Ambient Orb, and the Ambient Umbrella. It introduces the concept of "spimes" which are objects that constantly transmit data, and discusses how the "Internet of Things" could connect findable people and things. The document questions whether this type of technology has already begun or if it is the next step.
Webeverywhere Short
- 1. Ambient Technology Where’s the Web Browser?
- 2. The Most Successful Ambient Technology? so far…
- 3. Mobile Telephony Phones are everywhere Ubiquitous Coverage is more or less countrywide Always available Platform independent You can call and txt any phone or network But… txt itself is an unexpected technology
- 4. What is an ambient technology? Always available Always on Unobtrusive Embedded “ Obvious” interface Encourages human interaction (errr the mobile phone… again)
- 5. So what’s next? Is this another ambient technology?
- 6. The Ambient Orb Immediate but subtle information Updates on a project’s status in near real time Imagine a manager’s living room lit by the efforts of their project team. Vivid red for a project on the skids and blue/violet for a project going in the right direction
- 7. Ambient Umbrella Downloads weather information Displays forecasts as a colour coded display
- 8. Ambient Findability the strange connections between social software, human psychology, convergent architecture, smart mobs, reputation economies, learning organizations, nanotechnology and literacy
- 9. spime Noisy objects that transmit data constantly. About everything. Trivial or not. Because what you think is trivial may not be to everyone else. Bruce Sterling’s worldview???
- 10. The next step.. The internet of things
- 11. What other components for the Internet of Things? Should this happen? Or has it?
- 12. Computer Science Lab University of Washington Findable people and things rfid.cs.washington.edu
- 13. NavSpy.com …