This is the first time Pervasive has ventured outside Europe, there are over 300 attendees from Europe, Asia, Australia and North America. Khai is talking about the structure and composition of the Pervasive conference. There will be posters and demo presentations today, along with papers. Khai is thanking all the various people that made the conference possible, including the student volunteers yeah! And now, Khai is thanking the industry sponsors. All photos from the conference will be tagged in Flickr with the tag "pervasive07".
This year, there were 142 papers of which 132 were valid. There were 403 submitting authors from 32 countries out of which 21 papers were accepted for a 16% acceptance rate. For the paper review process, all papers were given to the two PC members, where there were a total of 4 reviews per paper. There were 28 PC members, 178 external reviewers, and 532 completed reviews. Khai is introducing Adam Greenfield and how his work is considered as "soulful" by Bruce Sterling, the keynote speaker at Ubicomp 2006.
Adam had a 200 slide Flickr presentation at the CHI conference. Adam's book on Everyware is the first book on ubiquitous computing that the lay person can understand, trying to make sense of Mark Weiser's vision. Some characteristics of Weiser's ubicomp are embedded, wireless, imperceptible, multiple, post-GUI. Adam says that Weiser's vision is considered still radical, and a lot of the things PARC had to create from scratch, which we take for granted right now like wireless 802.11. We are now beginning to see an emergent "internet of things", a class of systems that tends to colonize everyday life. This is an aggressive claim over a large domain. Adam says that "information processing" is "dissolving in behavior". One example of this that Adam gives is about the Octopus card in Hong Kong used for transit which is a wireless reader card where you can wave it towards the reader without having to take out the card (women in Hong Kong leave that card into their handbags). So what happens is that the visible (eg. the card) becomes invisible. I can say that I really love the Octopus card, Toronto transit should adopt that (so I don't have to use tokens for the TTC and GO Train ticket for the GO Train, and I can use the same card to take the ferry, the Oakville bus, York region transit, or any other transit system in the GTA).
So is this science fiction? Adam believes that we are beginning to see some of these visions happening but in a different fashion. The opt out feature is probably something that ubicomp researchers don't really think about when designing ubicomp systems, so to me that is a new thing. I met Adam before in San Francisco when I was doing my internship at PARC and had the privilege of doing a small interview with him which you can see from this post on my blog.
I just uploaded my photos that I took from my Palm Zire 71 up on the Flickr site, tagged with pervasive07.
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