Ubiquitous Context-Aware Computing: Experience and Emerging Challenges

Standing at the crossroads of the ActiveCampus Project and the Campus of the Future Project, it is appropriate to pause and consider what we’ve learned, and what that foretells. I will argue that a new feature of developing everyday software is “failure as a normal mode of operation”, and that this implies a need for advances in both software development techniques and application design methods. Key lessons will be drawn from several of the projects that I’ve conducted over the last five years.

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William Griswold is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1991. He is Chair of ACM SIGSOFT and in 2005 was the Program Co-Chair for the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering. His research interests include ubiquitous computing, educational technology, software design for evolution, and aspect-oriented software development. His current projects include the ActiveCampus ubiquitous computing project, WIISARD – Wireless Internet Information System for Medical Response in Disasters, Ubiquitous Presenter – a web-based extension to UW Classroom Presenter, and Arcum – environment support for the checking and evolution of crosscutting concerns.

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William Griswold
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UC San Diego
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