Special issue of personal and ubiquitous computing: papers from 3AD—the second international conference on appliance design

✍ Scribed by Peter Thomas

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 92 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1617-4909
• DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0027-6

✦ Synopsis

This issue of personal and ubiquitous computing contains papers presented at 3AD-the third international conference on appliance design, which was held at HP Laboratories, Bristol, UK on 28-29 June 2005.

As with the first two conferences in the series-1AD held in May 2003 and 2AD in May 2004-the aim of the conference was to explore the new discipline of product design that cuts the historical ties from desktops, PDAs and web pages to create a set of principles for radically simple information appliances.

The AD conferences have started a dialogue between appliance design disciplines-including product and industrial design, information design, interaction design, technology innovation and research in human-centred studies-which will help those disciplines re-establish themselves in a new context and so drive forward innovation in an industry where users will increasingly assert their demand for products that fit into their daily lifestyles.

As a consequence, a new discipline of appliance design is developing, which blends all the perspectives of