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We may speak of a device when an object is an instrument or tool to aid our activities, especially when it is part of a system which influences the dynamics of daily life or vice-versa. The functions inserted in technological communication devices such as mobile phones or computers, have an enormous influence on how people experience their surroundings.

As activator of the interaction between us, the information and the remote and/or close environments, the device is the physical object which permits the interaction and the contact between us, information systems and environments.

Services imply a system or a process which furnishes to the person a holistic experience. It is an intangible product which may integrate tangible elements. The design of a service is the result of combined planning comprising aspects such as management, control of production processes, communication and transport flow, and attempts to meet the requirements of new models and infrastructures to sustain and facilitate the activities and processes in integrated production systems. Service planning is scrupulous in incorporating new business models which favour the adoption of new socio-cultural values by society.

Ambient is a set of factors, elements and resources which surround persons and which interact with the persons who use them or move in them. When technology is integrated in an environment and communicates through devices, digital archives or with other remote areas, we may speak about an interactive ambient. But when spatial interaction is reduced to a defined and limited dimension within a defined time interval, the close environment becomes ubiquitous and reduced to the space within which a certain activity is carried out, the interactive ambient is between us and the output system, and consequently coincides with the interface of interaction. Ambient design transcends the object and tries to make technology more user friendly, more closely connected to the human body, to movement and to human sensory perception. A space which becomes an interactive ambient is not limited to a particular place but may be recreated anywhere.

An inclusive product or system is universally adaptable to the needs of all users. While most conventional interfaces are designed for the majority of people, inclusive solution projects are accessible also by persons with different types of ability (physical or cognitive handicaps), thus permitting everyone to use technology as an aid to managing daily tasks or as an interface in dealing with computerized society. This means that a project is RECYCL IN G VEN E TO REG ION - 223