Calm technology

Originally coined by Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown, this Human-computer interaction vision emphasizes unobtrusive computers embedded in everyday objects, in Peripheral vision.

Related

• It’s a component of the Ambient computing vision.
• Proposes to solve some problems gestured at in My computer feels aversive

References

A bibliography from the Calm Technology web site:

2023
How Design Is Governance. Amber Case. Medium. March 28th, 2023.

1996
Open House. Mark Weiser. ITP Review 2.0. March 1996.
The Coming Age of Calm Technology . Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown. Xerox PARC, October 5, 1996.

1995
Designing Calm Technology. Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown, 1995.
The Technologist’s Responsibilities and Social Change. Mark Weiser. Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine, V2N4. April 1, 1995.

1994
The World is Not a Desktop . Mark Weiser. Interactions. January 1994.

1993
Some Computer Science Problems in Ubiquitous Computing. Mark Weiser. Communications of the ACM, July 1993.

1991
Weiser - 1999 - computer for the 21st century

1989
The Portable Common Runtime Approach to Interoperability. Mark Weiser, Alan Demers, and Carl Hauser. ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, December 1989.