Ubiquitous Computing

When we talk about computing or programing, what show up in our mind immediately is:
1)someone sitting in front of a computer screen,
2)the person is inputting some kind of 'sentences' which include letters, numbers or other signs in some kind of 'languages' by using Keyboard or/and mouse. These 'languages' are not the languages we used in our everyday life. They are abstract, used by people who have
some special computer skills only.

Sometimes, the problem we need to solve is about other things rather than computer or software, and computer is just a tool to help us solve the problem more easily. The big problem is why we cannot use computer as a commonly used tool by every person in everyday life ,
such as table, cup and pen. If people can input information into a computing system by things other than keyboard and mouse, for example, maybe people can talk with the computing system, then everyone can use it. "Ubiquitous Computing" concept is introduced into research field based on this question at 80'.

This concept was supported by researchers, people did lots of research work about how it is helpful, how it can be used in reality, and some models were proposed. Lots of research works have already done and lots of research outcomes about "Ubiquitous Computing" have alreasy been used by industry or our society. For example: pen-based input system, speech recongnitionion system, ets. What we interested here is about how can we make a connection between those theories and human behaviors. If we can find out this connection, we can use the theoretical models in our everyday life. At the mean time, we can test those models are
rational or not.

Actually, the main direction of our interesting is still how human behaviors affect the ways people use a tool (our design), and in advance, affect us to do a design which should be fit human
behaviours.

Human behaviors are very complex and not easy to be observed, because not only people sometimes are not very sure why they do some action by a specific way, maybe they would like to call it a habit, and also people's activities are happening in an environment, but not isolated.
Rationalize and generalize people's behaviour is not an easy job even you observe people and their actions very carefully.