A framework for describing interference in ubiquitous computing environments

Abstract

Ubiquitous computing environments consist of numerous interacting components, many of which have been developed in isolation from each other. Unless appropriate measures are taken, interference (where a component's behavior in a deployed system differs from its behavior when in isolation) is likely to be commonplace. In this paper we explore the importance of this problem and present our work-in-progress on a framework that enables designers, developers, and researchers to describe and thus reason about interference in ubicomp environments