Supporting Activity in Desktop and Ubiquitous Computing

Abstract

The emergence of the ubiquitous computing paradigm in the early 1990s marked the beginning of a new era of computation in the workplace. Weiser envisioned a world in which we no longer focus our attention on a single box while we work with information; rather, the proliferation of small, powerful, connected computing devices would allow computation to ?vanish into the background? (Weiser, 1991).