The book at hand takes a critical view on the increasing technology penetration of our everyday life. Often, it is not clear what these technologies are good for and what value they bring to our life. Especially in Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) - a young research discipline investigating the ubiquity of computing technology in our everyday life - it is criticized that research and development is too technology-oriented. A more balanced view between technology and application orientation is seen as necessity to raise the impact of UbiComp results. The author argues that an amplification of...