What is Pervasive Computing?

Pervasive computing is the trend towards increasingly ubiquitous (another name for the movement is ubiquitous computing), connected computing devices in the environment, a trend being brought about by a convergence of advanced electronic - and particularly, wireless - technologies and the Internet.

"The pervasive computing vision calls for computation, sensing and networking to be ubiquitous, whether with users or embedded into everyday living environments. A result of ubiquitous networking and computational ability is to form digital boundaries around entities. As such, communities, whether geographically transcending or based at a place, formed with a priori agreements or ad hoc via simply a collocation of interacting devices members, transient or long-living, can form a digital matrix or space in which its participants interact, provide services or utilize services."

"the role of past and present as well as future contextual information (where a contextual information describes the dynamic aspects of people, places, devices, platforms, networks, etc.) to develop self-managing devices, middleware, database, applications and networks as well as to enable dynamic cooperation and collaboration between devices to carry out a distributed, autonomous task."

"Submissions topics:

• New technologies and devices for pervasive computing
• New applications of pervasive computing technologies
• New interfaces and modes of interactions between people and pervasive computing devices, applications or environments
• New tools, infrastructures, architectures and techniques for designing, implementing & deploying pervasive computing applications
• Evaluations and evaluation methods, for assessing the impact of pervasive computing devices, applications or environments
• Privacy, security, trust & social issues and implications of pervasive computing"