An Application Model for Pervasive Computing

Abstract—This paper challenges the mobile computing community by questioning the roles of devices, applications, and a user's environment. A vision of pervasive computing is described, along with attributes of a new application model that supports this vision to reality. Pervasive computing is more art than science. It will remain this way as long as people continue to view mobile computing devices as mini-desktops, applications as pro-grams that run on these devices, and the environment as a virtual space that a user enters to perform a task and leaves when the task is finished. This paper challenges the mobile computing community to adopt a new view of devices and its applications. Today, pervasive computing is more art than science. It will remain this way as long as people continue to view mobile computing devices as mini-desktops, applications as programs that run on these devices, and the environment as a virtual space that a user enters to perform a task and leaves when the task is finished. This paper challenges the mobile computing community to adopt a new view of devices, applications and environment.