Computer desktop metaphor, with a window screen and folder hierarchy, is the only digital work environment most users and designers have ever known. Contributors analyze the limitations of the desktop environment? Includes built-in conflict between access and viewing, difficulties in managing multiple tasks simultaneously, and the need to coordinate the various technologies and information objects (laptops, PDAs, files, URLs, email) that most people use every day a new design solutions and propose? working towards a more integrated work environment digital. They consider the idea of activity as a conceptual tool for designing an integrated system, and leads to the Kimura and Activity-Based Computing system as an example. Beyond the Desktop Metaphor systematic picture of a first-of-the-art research in the state of digital integrated working environment.