This document presents a survey of the field of appliance aggregation and describes its role within the Grid Community 
from a social and scientific perspective. The introduction describes  a specific context in which the Grid might be 
expected to have a socio-economic impact. It relates the existing study of technology usability, uptake and social-
shaping' to the interface between personal communication and computational devices, interoperating with the user, each 
other and the Grid through an appliance aggregation architecture. A terminology section is given followed by  an 
overview of existing standards relating  to this field and a comparison of the current research and development of 
related technologies within the GRID and P2P worlds.  Finally, a taxonomy and three user scenarios or case studies are 
presented.  .