IDENTIFYING DATA 2017_18
Subject (*) UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING Code 17665212
Study programme
Computer Engineering: Computer Security and Intelligent Systems (2013)
Cycle 2nd
Descriptors Credits Type Year Period
4.5 Optional 2Q
Language
Català
Department Computer Engineering and Mathematics
Coordinator
DUCH GAVALDÀ, JORDI
E-mail jordi.duch@urv.cat
Lecturers
DUCH GAVALDÀ, JORDI
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General description and relevant information This course tackles the concept in software engineering and computer science where computing is made to appear anytime and everywhere.
In this subject you only have the right to make the exam, because the degree you are studying is going to be extinguished. You have to take a look the timetable of the subject to know the exam's date. If you need an extraordinary exam session, you have to enrol for this, presenting an application to the secretariat of your campus or faculty.

Continguts
Topic Sub-topic
1. Introduction and legal aspects of Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) 1.1. Basic privacy principles
1.2. User profiling
1.3. Ubicomp privacy and security challenges
2. Data collection and sensors 2.1. Introduction to computer sensors
2.2. Sensor APIs
2.3. Wireless Sensor Networks
3. Data transfer and networks 3.1. Short Range Communication: NFC, Bluetooth, …
3.2. Long Range Communication: WiFi, WiMAX, LTE, …
4. Knowledge representation, data mining and semantical integration 4.1. Data Filtering and?Preprocessing
4.2. Data Storage
4.3. Data Analysis
5. Human-computer interaction

5.1. Basics of HCI
5.2. Prototyping
5.3. Natural User Interfaces
6. Mobile computing
7. Ubiquitous Computing Applications 7.1. Personal level: Telemedicine, Quantified self, …
7.2. Home level: Domotics, …
7.3. City level: Smartcities, urban computation, citizen science, …

Atenció personalitzada
Description
Personalized attention will be done in person during the consultation hours of each professor. There will also be the option of communication using the tools that moodle provides.

Avaluació
 
Other comments and second exam session

Fonts d'informació
Basic Adam Greenfield, Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing, New Riders, 2010
Mike Kuniavsky, Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design, Morgan Kaufmann, 2010
Cuno Pfister, Getting Started with the Internet of Things, Maker Media, Inc, 2011
Rolf H. Weber, Internet of Things: Legal Perspectives, Springer, 2010

Complementary

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