A device-free future of ubicomp? till.riedel @teco.edu #cosdeo2013 #ubicomp2013
Jun 19, 2015
Ubicomp was a lot about interacting with things…
…and we build cheap embedded devices
…to hide sensing and computation everywhere and build infrastructures
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Wearable computing was always the antithesis to the appliance-based approach
It only became sexy becauseof the ubiquity of cheap infrastructure and powerful smartphones
… but what comes next??
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applied dialectics
Thesis Anti-Thesis
Re-use existing infrastructureReduce user instrumentationEnable novel contexts
wearable device-free
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Device Free vs. Device Bound
Device-Bound Activity Recognition Sensor
Device-Free Activity Recognition Sensor
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So is „device-free“ the (next) future of (ubiquitous) computing?
Thesis Anti-Thesis
Synthesis
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change
conflict
The devices shall return….
• Organic Printed Sensor RFID• Will enable printing remote
readable sensors/transducer
• Device-free“ computation by(uncontrolled) Signal Superimposing
• computation on the channel up to 1000x lower energy, faster transmission for 1000 node net
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a) device-free is a necessary next step!
• New possibilities
• New constraints
• New thinking
• New knowlege/views:• On RF-Channel
• New Machine-Learning Tools
• New Models
• Complex interactions
“The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.” (hopefully)
b) device-free != free of devicesc) synthesis of approaches will bring real change
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