Anne Galloway, of Purse Lip Square Jaw, has published her PhD.
“The dissertation builds on available sociological approaches to understanding everyday life in the networked city to show that emergent technologies reshape our experiences of spatiality, temporality and embodiment. It contributes to methodological innovation through the use of data bricolage and research blogging, which are presented [...]
Putting People First has a translated section of a French report about mobile phone use by teens.
”...for adults the mobile is a hyper-personal device, an intimate black box with data that absolutely need to be protected. For teenagers on the other hand, the mobile is often as little confidential and intimate as their blogs. They [...]
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 – [...]
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Posted 31 May 2008
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Continuous partial attention is one of the side effects of mobile networked computing; it’s parasitic on our desires to feel connected to other people.
“Continuous partial attention and multi-tasking are two different attention strategies, motivated by different impulses. When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. Each activity [...]
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Posted 22 May 2008
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Also tagged: attention, continuous, cpa, fragmented, lindastone, msr, multitasking, partial, society, technology, trends
A report about mobile phones and the developing world.
“A key issue is the need for language, and perhaps cultural localization. To be useful, applications need to function in a language that users can both understand and feel comfortable using. The linguistic variety in many developing countries can represent a significant hurdle in the development of [...]
A slightly interesting article about innovation at Nokia is accompanied by some fun user-generated concept phones from their research.
Link: Nokia’s Dream Phones (businessweek.com)
Book about how mobile communication devices are changing social relationships.
“The message of this book is simple: the mobile phone strengthens social bonds among family and friends. With a traditional land-line telephone, we place calls to a location and ask hopefully if someone is “there”; with a mobile phone, we have instant and perpetual access to [...]
“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)
Microsoft Research is offering up a vision for computing in 2020. The very detailed document is thought provoking stuff, and even better it offers up some very specific questions about design challenges that fall out of that vision.
“Many new forms of mobile interaction are on the horizon. Mobile devices will allow us to connect with [...]
Continuing with the idea that ubiquitous computing is messy, Antti Oulasvirta writes about his research in Interactions, which includes the following recommendations:
Minimizing overheads that create temporal seams between activities;
Making remote but important resources, such as connectivity or cables, better transparent locally and digitally;
Propagating metadata on migration of data from device to device;
Supporting ad hoc uses [...]
Marek Pawlowski spoke with JD Moore about mobiles and developing countries for the upcoming MEX conference. Watch the 20 minute video below.
JD Moore talks to Marek Pawlowski about mobile user experience in developing markets
Link: In-depth video interview on emerging markets (mobileuserexperience.com)
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Posted 24 March 2008
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“In large ubiquitous computing environments it is hard for users to identify and activate the electronic services that match their needs. This user study compares the newly developed service matcher system with a conventional system for identifying and selecting appropriate services. The study addresses human factors issues such as usability, trust and service awareness. With [...]
”[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 [...]
Published by Gabriel White.