INTRODUCTION TO UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING (4 Credits)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this course, student will be able to: Identify the fundamental & terminologies of ubiquitous computing; Demonstrate applications & requirements of ubiquitous computing; Examine technologies of smart device and their services; Recognize human computer interaction related with of ubiquitous computing; Recognize Tagging, Sensing and Controlling and Context-Aware Systems.

Topics:

1. Introduction Complex Ubiquity-Effects & Topology of Sensibility;
2. The Implied Producer and the Citizen of the Culture of Ubiquitous Information;
3. Sustainability and Surveillance in the Era of Big Data;
4. Interface, Bodies, and Process;
5. Towards Transdisciplinary Design of Ubiquitous Computing Systems Supporting End-User Development;
6. Ubiquitous Memory: I do not Remember, We do not Forget;
7. Situating: Contextuality and Context-Awareness;
8. Cultural Theory;
9. Thinking in Networks: Artistic–Architectural Responses to Ubiquitous Information;
10. A Portrait of the Artist as A Smart City: Body, Complexity, and Urban Life;
11. Distraction Reconsidered: On The Cultural Stakes of the Ambient;
12. The Information Environment;
13. Media Always and Everywhere;
14. Media Art;
15. From Simple Rules to Complex Performances— Interview with Blast Theory’S Matt Adams;
16. Complex Historicity;
17. Ubiquitous—Alife in in Technosphere 2.0;
18. Interaction Design;
19. Disability, Locative Media, and Complex Ubiquity;
20. Indexical Visualization—The Data-Less Information Display;
21. Events;
22. Media Art 2;
23. Interaction Design;
24. Performative Strategies in Designing Interactive Experiences;
25. A Designer’s Reflections on Emergent Complexity in Collaborative Media;
26. Information Events, Big Data, and The Flash Crash.