The recently published Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies looks like it has a lot of interesting pieces in it.
Digital Divides and Social Mobility
The Mobile Makes Its Mark – Lara Srivastava
Shrinking Fourth World? Mobiles, Development, and Inclusion – Jonathan Donner
Mobile Traders and Mobile Phones in Ghana – Ragnhild Overå
Mobile Networks: Migrant Workers in Southern China – [...]
“The MobileHCI series provides a forum for academics and practitioners to discuss the challenges and potential solutions for effective interaction with mobile systems and services. It covers the design, evaluation and application of techniques and approaches for all mobile and wearable computing devices and services.”
Link: MobileHCI 2008 (telin.nl)
”[We describe] a calendar management application to demonstrate our vision for intuitive interfaces that enable humans to communicate with their mobile phones via natural spoken dialogue. For this vision to be realized, many technology advances must be made: we must go beyond speech recognition/synthesis, and include language understanding/generation and dialogue modeling. Another factor critical to [...]
“A related implication of Dodgeball use was social molecularization. By communicating about locations in the city, my informants could cognitively map urban public space. In addition, Dodgeball users can move through the city differently, based on the social-location information available to them. If they know friends are at a bar, they can go join them. [...]
Nicholas Nova lists out some of his recommended ubicomp reads.
“A reader of this blog recently asked me if I had tips about relevant paper to read concerning Ubiquitous Computing that has been released in the last 2 years…”
Link: Good reads on Ubiquitous Computing (liftlab.com)
The Australian Media/Culture Journal has an omnibus issue dedicated the use of mobile technology in the Asia Pacific region. Lots and lots of very interesting stuff. Here’s an excerpt from the editorial summary of all the articles:
“The first four papers by Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Gerard Raiti, Yasmin Ibrahim, and Collette Snowden & Kerry Green highlight [...]
Jeff Axup’s doctoral thesis explores design for communities on the move.
“Society is increasingly on the move, mobile devices are commonly being used to coordinate group actions, and group communication features are rapidly being added to existing technologies. Despite this, little is known about how mobile groups act, or how communications technologies should be designed to [...]
I quite often get frustrated that almost all the content I link to on this blog is about mobile phones. This blog is about mobile devices, not just mobile phones. But from all the digging I do, it’s very hard to turn up articles about other kinds of devices.
True, there’s a lot of academic [...]
An academic thesis presenting research on the design of web browsers for mobile devices.
“Technically, it has been possible to access the Internet on a mobile phone for several years already, but the mobile browsing experience has often been cumbersome for ordinary people. Understanding the user needs in different use contexts is the key to improving [...]
Jonathon Donner has published a survey of research approaches to mobile use in developing countries. An interesting survey with loads of references. See Jonathon’s site for more of his publications.
“In particular, a few kinds of studies seem most popular: those which focus on the mobile as a tool for new forms of instrumental communication and [...]
A treasure trove of research.
“The Mobile Phone & Society website provides information on research related to the social consequences of the mobile phones. The mission is to include all publicly available information on studies about the interaction between mobile phones and contemporary society. Within this context, other aspects of the mobile phones (e.g. related technologies, [...]
An interview of Laya Gaye – a researcher working in ubicomp.
“What I find interesting with mobile music is that it democratises the use of music technology and takes it to the streets. The field develops very quickly so it can take various directions at the moment: mobile music is by nature multi-disciplinary, at the crossing [...]
A paper discussing prototyping mobile technology design in a workshop format.
“We have found role playing and low-fi prototyping to be of particular value in projects involving mobile technology and multiple users. Our workshop format allows for the simultaneous exploration of future use and future technology. That is of great value in the design of mobile [...]
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