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Examples

Calm Tech is often so much a part of everyday life that we no longer notice it. The following examples are a way of exploring each Principle of Calm Technology by making the familiar noticible once again. 

I. Technology should require the smallest possible amount of attention

  1. Technology can communicate, but doesn’t need to speak.

  2. Create ambient awareness through different senses.

  3. Communicate information without taking the user out of their environment or task.

II. Technology should inform and create calm

  1. A person's primary task should not be computing, but being human.

  2. Give people what they need to solve their problem, and nothing more.