Entrepreneurial Thinking In The Design of Ubiquitous Computing
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2019-09-16
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From the smart assistant in a home providing the daily news, to the smart-glasses that notify you about your next meeting, Ubiquitous computing has arrived and is here to stay. However, despite our inherent dependence on ubiquitous technologies, a number of challenges still remain, such as how do we seamlessly interact with these environments using our everyday devices, to how do we provide them with context for interactions with ourselves and our data. My dissertation work is concerned with (1) overcoming challenges in how Ubiquitous environments are designed and how we interact with them using our everyday devices, (2) if and how we can redesign these devices to better fit their context of use in these environments, and (3) how can we enable designers and novices to contribute to the field of Ubiquitous computing environments. Moving beyond the research work for this dissertation, I also provide entrepreneurial reflections in each of the aforementioned areas, where I describe my journey and key lessons learned from working in a startup to co-founding multiple startups.
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Wearables, Fashion-tech, Smartwatches, Smartphones, Ubiquitous Computing, Entrepreneurship, Startups, Prototyping Tools, Avant-garde, Making, Multi-Surface Environments
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Seyed, A. (2019). Entrepreneurial Thinking In The Design of Ubiquitous Computing (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.