Attach:abc_portable.png Δ This website is the home of the Activity-Based Computing Project (ABC) done in the pIT lab at the IT University of Copenhagen. We, and others, are using the term activity-based computing to denote a new paradigm for computing, which is more suited for ubiquitous and pervasive computing. Activity-based computing has emerged as a response to the traditional application- and file-centered computing paradigm, which is oblivious to a notion of a user task spanning heterogeneous devices, multiple applications, services, and information sources.
What is Activity-Based Computing? Well, our work on ABC is motivated in creating pervasive computing support for hospitals, but has lately been applied in other applications like biology. We are continuously researching technologies for activity-based computing. The activity-based computing research has been ongoing since 2002 and has been documented in various publications. We are now working on version 5 of the ABC infrastructure.
