| dc.description.abstract | A human being’s daily activities – professional or private – are based on a broad range of interactions
with numerous external objects: discussing project plans with colleagues, setting up a multimedia
presentation in the conference room, editing documents, delegating travel planning to a
secretary, driving a car, buying a ticket from a vending machine, visiting an exhibition, controlling
the TV at home, etc.
As computers are becoming more and more ubiquitous, moving from the desktop into the infrastructure
of our everyday life, they begin to influence the way we interact with this environment
– the (physical) entities that we operate upon in order to achieve our daily goals. The most
important aspect of future human-computer interaction therefore is the way, computers support
us in efficiently managing our personal environment. This might be called the ecological level of
user-interface design. | de_DE |
