Book review
Questioning:
Why deal with a single, large, expensive computer
when you could harness many tiny, low-cost devices spread throughout
the environment?
Instead of always taking work to the computer,
why not put computation wherever it might be needed?
The difference between the PC and other devices,
such as the computer processors inside the television set, microwave oven and car, is that the other devices are organized around human needs and functions.
Similar tags to the “Active badges” could be attached to books and other artifacts, so that their location and mutual proximity could become a resource to computer-based applications
How the very physical form of device is an important component in structuring interactions with it..
The Digital Desk that support other behaviors that were more complicated in traditional systems, such as using hands at ones to express scaling or rotation of objects.
All sorts of objects, from walls to pens, might have computational power embedded in them. For someone concerned with interaction, this raises one enormous question – how can all this computation be controlled?
Technologies for supporting shared intimacy rather than shared work,
designed to be evocative and emotive rather than “efficient”?
Why does tangible interaction work? Which features are important, which are merely convenient and which are simply wrong? How does tangible computing mediate between the environment and the activity that unfolds in it?
