Challenge: ubiquitous location-aware computing and the "place lab" initiative

  • Authors:

  • Bill N. Schilit;Anthony LaMarca;Gaetano Borriello;William G. Griswold;David McDonald;Edward Lazowska;Anand Balachandran;Jason Hong;Vaughn Iverson

  • Affiliations:

  • Intel Research Seattle, Seattle, WA;Intel Research Seattle, Seattle, WA;Intel Research Seattle, Seattle, WA and University of Washington, Seattle, WA;University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA;University of Washington, Seattle, WA;University of Washington, Seattle, WA;University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA;University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA;Intel Corporation, Seattle, WA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Wireless mobile applications and services on WLAN hotspots
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

To be widely adopted, location-aware computing must be as effortless, familiar and rewarding as web search tools like Google. We envisage the global scale Place Lab, consisting of an open software base and a community building activity as a way to bootstrap the broad adoption of location-aware computing. The initiative is a laboratory because it will also be a vehicle for research and instruction, especially in the formative stages. The authors draw on their experiences with campus and building-scale location systems to identify the technological and social barriers to a truly ubiquitous deployment. With a grasp of these "barriers to adoption," we present a usage scenario, the problems in realizing this scenario, and how these problems will be addressed. We conclude with a sketch of the multi-organization cooperative being formed to move this effort forward.