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Human-to-Human Interaction: The Killer Application of Ubiquitous Computing?

Salvatore SorceAntonio GentileVito GentileStefano RuggieriAlessio Malizia

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Settore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle Informazioni020203 distributed computingUbiquitous computingSettore INF/01 - InformaticaComputer scienceSocial Factor02 engineering and technologyComputer-Mediated Communicationcomputer.software_genreUbiquitous Computing; Social Factors; Computer-Mediated CommunicationUbiquitous ComputingHuman interactionHuman–computer interaction020204 information systems0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringOperating systemcomputer

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Twenty-five years past the Weiser’s vision of Ubiquitous Computing, and there is not a clear understanding of what is or is not a pervasive system. Due to the loose boundaries of such paradigm, almost any kind of remotely ac-cessible networked system is classified as a pervasive system. We think that that is mainly due to the lack of killer applications that could make this vi-sion clearer. Actually, we think that the most promising killer application is already here, but we are so used to it that we do not see it, as a perfect fitting of the Weiser’s vision: the Human-to-Human Interaction mediated by com-puters.

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2017-05-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58071-5_7