Ubiquitous Computing

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Als "Ubiquitous Computing" (Weiser 1991, 1993) wird die Tendenz zur Verschmelzung von Computern mit bisher nicht computerisierten Gegenständen sowie zu deren Vernetzung bezeichnet.

Von Jörg M. Haake, Gerhard Schwabe, Martin Wessner Personenreihenfolge alphabetisch und evtl. nicht korrekt

im Buch CSCL-Kompendium (2004) im Text Perspektiven

Gelänge es, intelligente Technik näher an die Menschen heranzubringen, verlieren wir sie irgendwann ganz aus den Augen.

Von Neil Gershenfeld in der Zeitschrift GDI Impuls 2/99 (1999) im Text Dinge, die denken auf Seite 8

The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.

Von Mark Weiser im Text The Computer for the 21st Century (1991)

Der Begriff "Ubiquitous Computing" wurde bereits Anfang der 1990er-Jahre von Mark Weiser, bis zu seinem frühen Tod 1999 leitender Wissenschaftler am Forschungszentrum von XEROX in Palo Alto, geprägt und in seinem schon vom Titel her visionären Aufsatz "The computer for the 21st century" beschrieben.

Von Friedemann Mattern im Buch Total vernetzt (2003) im Text Vom Verschwinden des Computers

Hundreds of computers in a room could seem intimidating at first, just as hundreds of volts coursing through wires in the walls did at one time. But like the wires in the walls, these hundreds of computers will come to be invisible to common awareness. People will simply use them unconsciously to accomplish everyday tasks.

Von Mark Weiser im Text The Computer for the 21st Century (1991)

The emergence of the ubiquitous computing paradigm in the early 1990s marked the beginning of a new era of computation in the workplace. Weiser envisioned a world in which we no longer focus our attention on a single box while we work with information; rather, the proliferation of small, powerful, connected computing devices would allow computation to "vanish into the background" (Weiser, 1991).

Von Stephen Voida, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Blair MacIntyre im Buch Beyond the Desktop Metaphor (2006) im Text Supporting Activity in Desktop and Ubiquitous Computing

"Ubiquitous computing" in this context does not just mean computers that can be carried to the beach, jungle or airport. Even the most powerful notebook computer, with access to a worldwide information network, still focuses attention on a single box. By analogy to writing, carrying a super-laptop is like owning just one very important book. Customizing this book, even writing millions of other books, does not begin to capture the real power of literacy.

Von Mark Weiser im Text The Computer for the 21st Century (1991)

How do technologies disappear into the background? The vanishing of electric motors may serve as an instructive example: At the turn of the century, a typical workshop or factory contained a single engine that drove dozens or hundreds of different machines through a system of shafts and pulleys. Cheap, small, efficient electric motors made it possible first to give each machine or tool its own source of motive force, then to put many motors into a single machine.

Von Mark Weiser im Text The Computer for the 21st Century (1991)

My colleagues and I at PARC believe that what we call ubiquitous computing will gradually emerge as the dominant mode of computer access over the next twenty years. Like the personal computer, ubiquitous computing will enable nothing fundamentally new, but by making everything faster and easier to do, with less strain and mental gymnastics, it will transform what is apparently possible. Desktop publishing, for example, is fundamentally not different from computer typesetting, which dates back to the mid 1960's at least. But ease of use makes an enormous difference.

Von Mark Weiser im Text The Computer for the 21st Century (1991)

By pushing computers into the background, embodied virtuality will make individuals more aware of the people on the other ends of their computer links. This development carries the potential to reverse the unhealthy centripetal forces that conventional personal computers have introduced into life and the workplace. Even today, people holed up in windowless offices before glowing computer screens may not see their fellows for the better part of each day. And in virtual reality, the outside world and all its inhabitant effectively ceases to exist. Ubiquitous computers, in contrast, reside in the human world and pose no barrier to personal interactions. If anything, the transparent connections that they offer between different locations and times may tend to bring communities closer together.

Von Mark Weiser im Text The Computer for the 21st Century (1991)

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