Personal and Ubiquitous Computing has published some of the most innovative international research contributions on the design and evaluation of new generations of handheld and mobile information appliances.

Since 1997 it has provided a global perspective on new developments, uniting technical accounts with studies of the social, cultural and organisational impacts of new personal technologies.

The journal has published papers from research groups worldwide and has published special issues taken from leading international meetings.

From volume 6 (2002) the journal moved to six issues per year to accommodate the strongly developing international interest in personal and ubiquitous computing.

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing is part of the Springer Online First service which provides a paper publication date and citation before production of the print version of the journal.