Ambient computing

# Calm technology

Originally coined by [[zVcte8ZVoK9FeLQweJvRW4U:::Mark Weiser]] and [[zFQ8beSWt5erQJnz8265Va2:::John Seely Brown]], this [[Human-computer interaction]] vision emphasizes unobtrusive computers embedded in everyday objects, in [[z4geAr5cERWdJPrdhU5gy3N:::Peripheral vision]]. 

## Related

*   It’s a component of the [[z8GnHvaCgd77ZgMs3v5EZhX:::Ambient computing]] vision.
*   Proposes to solve some problems gestured at in [[z5Vg36PMQMvZs2dzqM7fVz1:::My computer feels aversive]]

## References

A bibliography from the [Calm Technology](https://calmtech.com/papers.html) web site:

> 2023
>  [How Design Is Governance.](https://uxdesign.cc/how-design-is-governance-7c8dd466d753)  Amber Case.  [Medium.](https://uxdesign.cc/how-design-is-governance-7c8dd466d753)  March 28th, 2023.
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> 1996
>  [Open House.](https://calmtech.com/papers/open-house.html)  Mark Weiser.  [ITP Review 2.0.](http://www.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~review/current/focus2/open00.html)  March 1996.
>  [The Coming Age of Calm Technology](https://calmtech.com/papers/coming-age-calm-technology.html) . Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown. Xerox PARC, October 5, 1996.
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> 1995
>  [Designing Calm Technology.](https://calmtech.com/papers/designing-calm-technology.html)  Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown, 1995.
>  [The Technologist’s Responsibilities and Social Change.](https://calmtech.com/papers/technologists-responsibilities-and-social-change.html)  Mark Weiser. Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine, V2N4. April 1, 1995.
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> 1994
>  [The World is Not a Desktop](https://calmtech.com/papers/the-world-is-not-a-desktop.html) . Mark Weiser. Interactions. January 1994.
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> 1993
>  [Some Computer Science Problems in Ubiquitous Computing.](https://calmtech.com/papers/some-computer-science-issues-ubquitious-computing.pdf)  Mark Weiser. Communications of the ACM, July 1993.
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> 1991
>  [[zC19qWHvd5Ln8mauXu5HDoP:::Weiser, M. (1999). The computer for the 21st century. ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review, 3(3), 3–11]]
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> 1989
>  [The Portable Common Runtime Approach to Interoperability.](https://calmtech.com/papers/the-portable-common-runtime-approach-to-interoperability.pdf)  Mark Weiser, Alan Demers, and Carl Hauser. ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, December 1989.






