Upcoming Special Issue on Ubiquitous Computing in the Real World

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing has an upcoming (Summer 2006) special issues on Ubiquitous Computing in the Real World. Editors: George Roussos, Birkbeck College University of London UK and Shin’ichi Konomi, University of Colorado, US.

Solicited contributions should report on ubicomp deployment and highlight the effects of bringing ubiquitous computing to the real world:

• What are the limitations of ubiquitous systems implementation in the real world in terms of economics, regulation, business realities and market situation and can the cost be justified?
• Which systems can work outside the laboratory?
• When ubiquitous systems are deployed what are the changes that bring to people’s lives?
• Is the ubiquitous computing world a utopia, which can never be reached because reality is messy?
• And above all, is the ubiquitous computing world a world which people seem happy to live in?

Relation to my thesis: My domain interest in supporting the integration of ubicomp into our messy realities. Right on target with this special issue.