Coming home

Calm technology - inviting awareness of our emotions and relations

Adaptive, always-on technologies are becoming less like tools and more like part of our extended mental apparatus.

Experience gains meaning when we can see how it is connected to other things that we value.

Technology as our companion will support our best options to facilitate the situation by supporting our emotional reaction to a situation.

Technology as Companion will inspire moments of positive emotional awareness, positive outlook and attitude while gaining license for proactively facilitating automated executional strategies and tasks - we call it: Playful influence over situation.

Design for Well-being, /inviting inner and outer harmonies / aim to create opportunities for people to use technologies in different ways and for different purposes, to lead the kind of lives that we have reason to value.

Designing for Well-being means helping people thrive in their personal and social relationships;

- helping people discover meaning in their daily and long-term interactions;

- invite awareness of emotions and relations;

- harmonize their life modes (e.g., work, home, and social time);

- and embrace their emotions and values.