design principles for a new generic digital habitat
Our digital habitat, which today consists of desktops, applications and web pages, should be based on the same abstract concepts - habitats, spaces, information, objects and mechanisms - as our physical habitat. This enables people to feel safe, in control, capable and social, in contrast to the widespread feeling of frustration in the today's digital society. This paper presents the key principles for designing such a continuum of the physical and digital habitats in which people perform their everyday activities, to which other systems connect and which developers extend with new concepts like ones that current digital habitats do not support.
design principles habitat metaphor conceptual model ubiquitous computing