Foot-driven computing
Frank Stajano · SIGSPATIAL Special · 2009
Ubiquitous computing has been a fashionable research theme for the past twenty years, so much so that many research groups have felt the urge to give it a different name (pervasive computing, calm computing, ambient intelligence etc etc) in order to claim that they were doing something new or at least slightly different from everyone else. One of these many alternate names has been "context-aware computing", to suggest systems and devices that would sense the "context" of a situation and behave accordingly: for example, a mobile phone might sense that its owner is "in a meeting" and automatically switch from ringtone to vibration mode.