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Tuesday, August 06, 2019

Activity Centric Computing Systems

Task completion and coordination with other agents has become important.

Activity-Centric Computing Systems
By Jakob E. Bardram, Steven Jeuris, Paolo Tell, Steven Houben, Stephen Voida 

Communications of the ACM, August 2019, Vol. 62 No. 8, Pages 72-81  10.1145/3325901

Mobile, ubiquitous, social, and cloud computing have brought an unprecedented amount of information, digitized resources, and computational power—spanning many different devices—to users today. Correspondingly, an increasing amount of work and leisure activity is taking place in this distributed digital computing environment. For example, in a hospital, the medical record and bio-signals of patients are digitized and accessed by multiple stationary, mobile, and wearable devices. At home, digital and social media, email, photo libraries, and the like are accessed on a wide range of devices including laptops, smartphones, TV sets, and other Internet-connected appliances. 

However, this rapid increase in the diversity and volume of both computational devices and digital content quickly introduces corresponding organizational challenges, leading to digital clutter. Many people feel overwhelmed and burdened by organizing and retrieving their digital resources, which includes handling, organizing, and finding information—a problem commonly referred to as information overload. Moreover, handling multiple and often concurrent tasks while coordinating with other individuals adds an additional level of complexity.  .... " 

Jakob E. Bardram   @jbardram
 describes "Activity-Centric Computing Systems" (video link:  bit.ly/2YdS9B5 )

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