The Disappearing Computer

This book examines how the computer, as we currently know it, will be replaced by a new generation of technologies, moving computing off the desktop and ultimately integrating it with real world objects and everyday environments. It provides a unique combination of concepts, methods and prototypes of ubiquitous and pervasive computing reflecting the current interest in smart environments and ambient intelligence.

Inhalt

I: Interacting within Smart Spaces.- Smart Artefacts as Affordances for Awareness in Distributed Teams.- From the Disappearing Computer to Living Exhibitions: Shaping Interactivity in Museum Settings.- Opening the Digital Box for Design Work: Supporting Performative Interactions, Using Inspirational Materials and Configuring of Place.- Spatial Computing and Spatial Practices.- II: Designing for the Home and Social Activities.- Co-designing Communication Technology with and for Families - Methods, Experience, Results and Impact.- Assembling Connected Cooperative Residential Domains.- Intrusiveness Management for Focused, Efficient, and Enjoyable Activities.- III: System Architecture and Infrastructures.- Towards Ubiquitous Computing Applications Composed from Functionally Autonomous Hybrid Artifacts.- Towards Dynamic and Cooperative Multi-device Personal Computing.- An Attention-Based Architecture for Context Switch Detection.- IV: Augmenting Physical Artefacts.- Emerging Sounds for Disappearing Computers.- Electronically Functional Fibre Technology Development for Ambient Intelligence.- Augmented Paper: Developing Relationships Between Digital Content and Paper.