Gaia: enabling active spaces

Ubiquitous computing promotes physical spaces with hundreds of specialized embedded devices that increase our productivity, alleviate some specific everyday tasks and provide new ways of interacting with the computational environment. Personal computers lose the focus of attention due to the fact that the computational environment is spread across the physical space. Therefore, the users’ view of the computational environment is finally extended beyond the physical limits of the computer. Physical spaces become computer systems, or in other terms, Active Spaces. However, these Active Spaces require novel system software capable of seamlessly coordinating their hidden complexity. Our goal is to extend the model provided by current computer systems to allow interaction with physical spaces and their contained (physical and virtual) by means of a single abstraction called Active Space.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: SIGOPSE
• Authors: Manuel Román, Roy H. Campbell
• Keywords: Active Space, Computational Environment, Operating System, Physical Spaces, SIGOPSE 2000