Week 5

Question 1

What is ubiquitous computing?

Answer 1

Technology that is accessible to the user whenever and

wherever they want or need it.

Question 2

What are the challenges of ubicomp?

Answer 2

Introducing novel experience

Design for adaptation

Creating experience continuity across devices

Device Interconnection

Respecting boundaries

Question 3

What are the challenges of mobile

computing?

Answer 3

Limited screen space or no screen at all.

Battery life

Limitations on storage, memory and communication ability

All sorts of people use them so there is a number of
potential users and contexts.

Question 4

What are the design principles for wearables

Answer 4

Unmonopolizing of people’s attention

Unrestrictive

Observable

Controllable

Attentive to the environment

Communicative to others

Question 5

What is ambient intelligence?

Answer 5

Describes how the devices appear to integrate algorithmic reasoning (intelligence) into human-built spaces so that it becomes part of the ambiance of the
environment.

Question 6

What is physical computing?

Answer 6

How people interact with computing through physical objects rather than in online environment.

Question 7

What is the internet of things?

Answer 7

The interconnection via the Internet of computing devices embedded in everyday objects, enabling them to send and receive data.

Question 8

What are characteristics of ambient intelligence?

Answer 8

Context awareness

Personalised

Immersive

Adaptive