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On the Gap between Vision and Feasibility

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Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2002)

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Information appliances, user interfaces, and context-aware devices are necessarily based on approximations of potential users and usage situations. However, it is not an unusual experience for developers that in some areas, appropriate approximations are extremely difficult to realize. Often, these difficulties are not apparent from the beginning. Nevertheless, difficulties are rarely addressed in the pervasive computing literature as they appear to be peripheral compared to the technical challenges. In this paper, we argue that the field would largely benefit from addressing these issues explicitly. First, focussed discussions would help identify areas that have already shown to be difficult or even intractable in related disciplines, such as AI or CSCW. Second, it would help developers become aware of the difficulties and would allow them to deliberately circumvent such areas. We use example scenarios from the pervasive computing literature to illustrate these points. Difficulties to describe and to analyze impacts of pervasive computing applications indicate a need for an analysis framework providing a specific terminology.

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  1. Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway NSW, 2007, Australia

    Christopher Lueg

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  1. Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich, IFW Haldeneggsteig 4, 8092, Zürich, Switzerland

    Friedemann Mattern

  2. Emerging Markets and IP Creation, IBM Technology Group, USA

    Mahmoud Naghshineh (Director) (Director)

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Lueg, C. (2002). On the Gap between Vision and Feasibility. In: Mattern, F., Naghshineh, M. (eds) Pervasive Computing. Pervasive 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2414. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45866-2_5

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