The activities in the centre are based on competencies from a broad spectrum of research areas supporting pervasive computing. Currently, the centre involves the following research areas:

• Ambient Intelligence with Tangible Objects
• Center for Advanced Visualization and Interaction - CAVI
• Center for Pervasive Healthcare
• Computer Supported Cooperative Work
• Database Technology
• Design Anthropology
• Embedded Systems - Embodied Agents
• Interactive Workspace
• Mobile Systems and Wireless Communication
• Modelling and Validation of Distributed Systems
• New Ways of Working
• Object Technology
• Sound as Media
• Tangible User Interaction
  

Some research areas are well-established, like Object Technology, some are emerging. Each area is headed by a research manager.

Most of the work in the centre is organised as research projects involving both companies and universities. Many projects cut across research areas.