Future digital lifestyle research

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Mark Weisers' vision of ubiquitous computing is emerging with increasing adoption of information applications and devices such as email, maps, audio/visual media, mobile phones, media players, game consoles, laptops, home servers and so on. We will know when this vision becomes fully realized and most beneficial to society when information technologies are acquired with more consideration of how well they integrate with a person's lifestyle rather than by their functionality; in essence, the technology becomes mundane, blending into people's way of thinking and living. This research creates technologies and approaches to support large-scale digital lifestyles based on new mental models and metaphors of content and applications to achieve this. Ultimately, these metaphors provide a shift from ubiquitous computing to ubiquitous media and metaphors.