The various aspects related to ubiquitous computing education, the center of attraction of the Ubicomp Education Workshop, are discussed. At the workshop, a small number of researchers and educators gathered to discuss how ubiquitous computing is taught at universities and defined the common themes and resources that can influence the future educational materials. It was suggested that students should be introduced to ways to gather information about the physical world and represent it in the virtual world. Ubiquitous computing encourages numerous modes of interaction, so students should understand both explicit interaction, such as speech, gestures, and writing, and implicit interaction, such as location and user activity.

The authors organized a workshop on education at the Ubicomp 2003 conference in Seattle, Washington in October12, 2003. This paper reports on the results of that workshop. The intention is to provide a more concrete basis for discussion of ubicomp education at subsequent forums, such as PerEd 2004.