Table One: our bullet point list

[katieb]

Here is where we should post our ideas as they come up. No elaboration necessary, if it is important just jot it down!

[katieb]

interruptibility vs. privacy: what's good and what is bad?

[katieb]

how do you manage expectations of availability?

[katieb]

interacting WITH and being interacted AT (advertisements)

[katieb]

how do you turn it off if it is everywhere?

[jturchi]

Just with our table there was an "apple side" and a "windows side". How do we have a device that people can use intuitively that will bridge between the different support?

[katieb]

how do people customize their environments? How generalizable is each environment?

[jturchi]

Is intuition learnable?

[katieb]

[katieb]

Is the user being considered in the design of technology? Kind of. Performance is not the only aspect of humanity to consider though. What about privacy, social connectivity, happiness, physical activity, etc...?

[jturchi]

The "new windows" has to be such great technology to go through the costs and take on the new technology. It has to prove that it's "worth it"!

[katieb]

what happens to the people left behind (elderly, etc...)? This is something that happens not only in technology though, so is it really an issue?

People being alienated from their technology because they don't know how to use it.

[katieb]

opaque technologies that require stories to understand. There is often no visual representation available to truly understand a technology

[katieb]

[katieb]

can you control the influence or prevalence of ubicomp in your own life?