product...

We aim to set the stage for the experience of place by means of content and interaction strategies for how the portable device meets the embedded device in the physical city

premise...

Appropriateness has surpassed performance as the primary concern in technology design. Discovering opportunities is as important as solving problems. What one decides to take on is at least as important as how one goes about it.

process...

We are extending contextual design to consider place. We inquire into the way that persistent and culutral consdtions relate to habitual patterns of activity. This is more complex than the usual ethnography of the task because more enduring patterns are more likely to have shaped outlook.