Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing

by Genevieve Bell and Paul Dourish

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A sociotechnical investigation of ubiquitous computing as a research enterprise and as a lived reality.

Ubiquitous computing (or ubicomp) is the label for a "third wave" of computing technologies. Following the eras of the mainframe computer and the desktop PC, ubicomp is characterized by small and powerful computing devices that are worn, carried, or embedded in the world around us. The ubicomp research agenda originated at Xerox PARC in...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0262525895

ISBN13:9780262525893

Release Date:January 2014

Publisher:MIT Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.7" x 8.8"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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Computers Computers & Technology Engineering Technology

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