Reactive Environments: Throwing Away Your Keyboard and Mouse

As technology becomes increasingly widespread, we are confronted with the burden of controlling a myriad of complex devices in our day-to-day activities. While many people today could hardly imagine living in an electronicsfree home or working in an office without computers, few of us have truly mastered control of our VCRs, microwave ovens, or office photocopiers. Rather than making our lives easier, as technology was intended to do, it has complicated our activities with instruction manuals and confusing user interfaces.