Designing Ubiquitous Information Environments: Socio-Technical Issues and Challenges: IFIP TC8 WG 8.2 International Working Conference, August 1-3, ... in Information and Communication Technology) [Hardcover]

Carsten Sørensen (Editor), Youngjin Yoo (Editor), Kalle Lyytinen (Editor), Janice I. DeGross (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0387275606 | ISBN-13: 978-0387275604 | Publication Date: July 29, 2005 | Edition: 1

Ubiquitous computing as the next wave of organizational computing offers new possibilities for organizations to improve their productivity and effectiveness. However, the emergence of ubiquitous information environments fundamentally challenges many traditional assumptions about organizations, management, computing, communication and work.

The book brings in diverse perspectives from computer-supported collaborative work, institutional perspective, diffusion of innovation, management, sociology, individual cognition, and software engineering. It also covers a variety of technologies that make up ubiquitous information environments including RFID, wireless grid, GPS, mobile phones, and wireless local area network. The papers cover many contexts of ubiquitous computing, attesting to the wide-ranging potential of ubiquitous information environments.

A collective product of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 8.2, the book proceeds from the IFIP Working Conference on the Design of Ubiquitous Information Environments held in Cleveland, Ohio in August 2005.

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The rapid developments in mobile and wireless communication technologies and the continuing miniaturization of computing devices makes ubiquitous information environments more of a technical reality than a distant vision.  Ubiquituous computing as the next wave of organizational computing offers new possibilities and opportunities for organizations to improve their productivity and effectiveness.  However, the emergence of ubiquitous information environments not only signals opportunities, but also fundamentally challenges many of the traditional assumptions about organizations, management, computing, communication and work.

The ubiquitous information environments affect all levels of organization activities.  Currently there are a number of activities in designing and implementing ubiquitous information environments.  The 7 parts of this book, and the 31 chapters, cover various issues related to the design and implementation of ubiquitous information environments.  The book covers old and familiar issues in light of emerging ubiquitous information environments as well as novel social and technical problems.

The book brings in diverse perspectives on ubiquitous information environments, from computer-supported collaborative work, institutional perspective, diffusion of innovation, management, sociology, individual cognition, and software engineering.  It also covers a variety of technologies that make up ubiquitous information environments including RFID, wireless grid, GPS, mobile phones, and wireless local area network.  The papers cover many contexts of ubiquitous computing including personal use, library, automobile, healthcare, police, professional knowledge work, remote diagnostics of machines, and marketing, attesting to the wide range of potential of ubiquitous information environments.

This book developed as a collective product of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 8.2, a working group dedicated to the study of the interaction of information systems and the organization.  The book proceeds from the IFIP Working Conference on the Design of Ubiquitous Information Environments held in Cleveland, Ohio, in August 2005.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 380 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (July 29, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0387275606
• ISBN-13: 978-0387275604
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.4 inches
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• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,432,830 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Dr Carsten Sørensen (www.carstensorensen.com) lectures Information Systems and Innovation in Department of Management at The London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom. He holds a BSc. in mathematics, an MSc in computer science and a Ph.D. in information systems from Aalborg University, Denmark. Carsten has since 1986 studied how ICT shapes and is shaped by emerging working practices and organizational forms. He currently studies the innovation of information services, mobile technology, and flexible networking infrastructures. In 2001 he initiated the mobility@lse (mobility.lse.ac.uk) research network, which aims at drawing together academics with an interest in the profound changes to society, organisations and individuals from mobile, pervasive and ubiquitous information technology. Carsten has international project experience from 1990 and extensive EU research project experience from 1992. He is a Senior Editor for The Information Systems Journal, and Associate Editor of Journal of the AIS and The e-Service Journal. Carsten is on the editorial board for Information and Organization and a member of the Advisory Board for Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems. He is an Academic Advisor for The Institute for Innovation & Information Productivity (www.iii-p.org) and served as a member of the Advisory Board for the iSociety project at The Work Foundation. Carsten is actively engaged with executive education and has consulted for a range of organisations, for example; Microsoft, Google, Orange, PA Consulting Group, Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence, 3 UK, Skype, AXA, Carphone Warehouse, CA, and The Danish Ministry of Science.