A Picture of Present Ubicomp Research Exploring Publications from Important Events in the Field

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Abstract. In this work we use a dataset of papers published in top conferences focused on ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) to provide an overview and analysis of recent ubiquitous computing research performed internationally and in Brazil. The contributions of this study are twofold. First, we extracted useful information from our dataset such as representativeness of authors and institutions, and the formation of communities. Second, we analyzed all papers published between 2010 and 2011 in all top international conferences, creating a taxonomy of recent ubicomp research performed internationally. After that we mapped SBCUP papers (Brazilian ubicomp conference) according to this taxonomy, which enables the comparison of international and national research. This study is useful to guide novices in the field and it also provides experienced researchers with facts enabling the discussion of ubicomp research.

A bibliometric study of human–computer interaction research activity in the Nordic-Baltic Eight countries

“…Bibliometric research methods can be useful in understanding research effort, behavior, structures, growth, and impact; these have also been popular in the fields of human factors (Lee et al, 2005) and HCI (Bartneck & Hu, 2009;Kaye, 2009;Koumaditis & Hussain, 2017). Subfields of HCI have also been studied using bibliometric methods, for example user centered design (Cho et al, 2020), ubiquitous computing (Silva et al 2012), world wide web (Agarwal et al, 2016), human-robot interaction Mubin, Tejlavwala, et al, 2018), accessibility (Sandnes, 2021), mobile technology (Palomäki et al, 2014), intelligent user interfaces (Völkel et al, 2020), human-agent interaction (Mubin et al, 2017), and computer-supported cooperative work (Jacovi et al, 2006;Correia et al, 2013;Keegan et al 2013;Correia et al, 2018aCorreia et al, , 2018bCorreia et al, , 2019. Several bibliometric studies of conferences conclude with informed advice to the conference organizers (Kostakos, 2015;Mubin et al 2017) on how improvements can be made.…”