Why we need to redefine our relationship with smartphones

They need to reclaim their place as simply tools to facilitate our engagement with the physical world

A person viewing fractals to promote mindfulness, at this year’s Computer-Human Interaction conference

We have arrived at a paradox in the evolution of smartphones.  The field of human-computer interaction (HCI) has focused for years on designing novel interfaces to make it easier to interact with computing devices, utilizing input modalities such as tex…