The Disappearing Computer Interaction Design, System Infrastructures
“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
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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany
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Norbert Streitz Achilles Kameas Irene Mavrommati (Eds.)
The Disappearing Computer Interaction Design, System Infrastructures and Applications for Smart Environments
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Volume Editors Norbert Streitz Fraunhofer IPSI AMBIENTE - Smart Environments of the Future Dolivostr. 15, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Achilles Kameas Hellenic Open University and Computer Technology Institute, DAISy group 23 Sahtouri str, 26222 Patras, Greece E-mail: [email protected] Irene Mavrommati Computer Technology Institute, DAISy group and University of the Aegean N. Kazantzaki str, University Campus, 26500 Patras, Greece E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2007927057 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.5.2, H.5.3, H.5, H.4, H.3, D.2, C.2, K.4 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 3 – Information Systems and Application, incl. Internet/Web and HCI ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
0302-9743 3-540-72725-6 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-72725-5 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface It is our position that “the-computer-as-we-know-it” will soon have no role in our future everyday lives and environments. It will be replaced by a new generation of technologies, which will move the computing power off the desktop and ultimately integrate it with real world objects and everyday environments. Computing becomes thus an inseparable par
