Digital Simplicity Through Activity-Based Computing

There are many indicators that people feel technology is speeding up and complicating their lives. In response, many individuals reject certain computing and communications technologies when given the choice (e.g., for use in their homes). Current research in ubiquitous computing has a tendency to fall into this same trap, offering overly complex technology supporting new functions with little value to users. The Digital Simplicity project instead offers a different value proposition: take this simple technology into your life and we will make the high-level, long-lived activities you are currently doing simpler. Target activities include sup...