Daiber, Florian and Jones, Michael and Wiehr, Frederik and Cheverst, Keith William John and Kosmalla, Felix and Häkkilä, Jonna (2017) UbiMount: 2nd workshop on ubiquitous computing in the mountains. In: UbiComp '17 Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers :. ACM, New York, pp. 1022-1026. ISBN 9781450351904
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Abstract
Mobile and wearable computing has great potential to support alpine outdoor sport activities. This includes, but is not limited to, rock climbing, hiking, mountain biking, paragliding, and skiing. Interestingly, technology for tracking, monitoring and supporting sport activities is broadly used in sports like running or cycling, but has not reached the top of the mountains yet. Nevertheless, such technologies could support people in many mountain scenarios such as activity tracking, navigation, or emergency support. Technologies and applications for mountaineers can learn from ubiquitous computing research in many ways to provide more joyful, motivating and safer outdoor experiences.