Living in metamorphosis: proactive computing in the home environment

The Finnish Academy of Sciences is funding a three year research programme [1] on proactive computing. The programme integrates technological innovations in hardware and software with psychological and social science research. The fourteen funded projects span the wide field of proactive computing ranging from modelling the user’s behaviour to proactive health care systems to controlling the environment via a direct brain interface. The programme is organised in co-operation with the National Technology Agency of Finland and the French Ministry of Research.