The flows of things – exploring babies’ everyday space-making

Designing Everyday Computational Things

Much development of information technology has been about reducing the importance of distances and user location. Still, many important activities and events are of local nature, for instance serendipitous face-to-face communication. In order to support such communication, as well as other examples of local interaction, we have developed three prototypes all based on wireless short-range commun...

A History of Everyday Things

The computer science of everyday things

Computers are physically everywhere, mostly embedded inside everyday objects like CD players, telephones and cameras, and they affect our lives in numerous ways. Companies use computers, and almost all of our daily interaction with organisations, whether our employers or our supermarket, is constrained by what computers will allow. How we handle all sorts of information, from conventional magaz...

Exploring the Everyday Designer

This paper discusses our preliminary analysis of how designer and non-designer participants discussed and engaged in design activity. For this research, we employed two design study experiments that included a total of forty-eight participants. In our preliminary findings we found differences between designers and nondesigners in how a design activity is analyzed. The more significant prelimina...

new semigroup compactifications via the enveloping semigroups of associated flows

this thesis deals with the construction of some function algebras whose corresponding semigroup compactification are universal with respect to some properies of their enveloping semigroups. the special properties are of beigan a left zero, a left simple, a group, an inflation of the right zero, and an inflation of the rectangular band.