The Disappearing Computer Interaction Design, System Infrastructures and Applications for Smart Environments /

“The-computer-as-we-know-it” will have no role in our future everyday lives. This is the position taken in this book which elaborates how 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 envir...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Streitz, Norbert (Editor), Kameas, Achilles (Editor), Mavrommati, Irene (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
Series:Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4500
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • 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.