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Conventional user interface backgrounds on smart devices are mainly organized using static contents for decoration purposes. Therefore, displaying information as a form of user interface background has not been considered to be very useful. To overcome this limitation, this paper presents a dynamic method that improves the utility of user interface backgrounds by converting them into live or active backgrounds. In order to display useful information as the background of a user interface, information such as user interests needs to be collected from the users. Based on this user-originated information, contents to be presented on the background are organized in the form of images and can be tailored to meet the individual needs of the users. This progressive method has already been implemented and made commercially available to users, as proposed by the current study. The effectiveness of this active background system has been confirmed by the throughput observation among users.