How can We overcome the gap between Ubiquitous infrastructure and User's Desire?
Mainwarning's paper mentioned the gap between the standard of infrastructure and user's needs and desires. This fact is very important and helpful to design and implement ubiquitous computing system.
The discrepancy makes to decrease the utilization of ubiquitous system in the real world. How can we overcome the gap between infrastructure and user's desire?
In this paper, the author describes those users who were on “off the grid" wish to come back "on the grid". I think there are two more options except returning "on the grid". First option is to fill the gap using other technologies, and the other option is to take training. Actually, a company which has various solutions for ubiquitous computing announced a new solution for transferring data, but the motion for sending data is so strange. A user who has mobile device throws the music file to targeting object such as speaker or audio device.
After doing the music file maybe transfers from a user's device to audio device. Because throwing motion is not natural, most user do not agree that this throwing motion is ease and convenient for user. Instead of stupid motion, we can get solutions using other technology. Is it possible to completely overcome the gap using other technology and training?