LUCI UbiComp Reading List v1.0

The Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction at UC Irvine released the first version of a UbiComp reading list. This reading list is necessary for graduate students advancement to candidacy.

Relation to my thesis: keeping track on my literature review. I spotted a Hightower-Borriello article I was not aware of:

Hightower, J. Brumitt, B. and Borriello, G. 2002. The Location Stack: A Layered Model for Location in Ubiquitous Computing. Proc. of the Fourth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, IEEE Computer Society.

Based on five design principles extracted from a survey of location systems, they present the Location Stack, a layered software engineering model for location in ubiquitous computing.

In the future work section, they mention the challenge of uncertainty representation:

While it is clear that representing the precise nature of a sensor’s measurement uncertainty is critical, a general mechanism for this remains elusive. Traditional Gaussian representations [18] suffer from problems with nonlinear transformation between coordinate frames and the scalability of particle filters to large domains remains a challenge, although scalable state estimation techniques used in mobile robotics [8] are an excellent place to start and are the approach taken by our reference implementation.