Emergent Mobility

Mobile and wireless computing

1. The world’s leading digital technology
2. Usage: multimedia communication, social action, information access
3. introductory slideshow

Primary uses

Access
Fear of multitasking (continued)

• Complex device ecology

Connectivity continues to expand

• problem: cities versus telcos
• problem: rural/urban divide
• problem: America versus the world
• problem: privacy?

Or the opposite: toothing

Device convergence continues

• RFID continues (example: Starbucks)
• New fusion devices (example: Origami)
• Rich media (games and video for PSP, video and audio for iPod)
• Copia cliche

Smartmobbing continues

Pedagogies

• Information on demand
• Time usage changes
• Class/world barrier reduction
• Swarming
• Personal intimacy with units
• Spatial mapping (examples: GIPSY)
• Mobile, multimedia, social research (University of Umea HUMlab, Jokkmokk 2004)
• Distributed conversations (Marymount Manhattan College, Artmobs; Draw on blogospheric practice)
• Manolo
• Classes developing mobile apps and content: Hacking Android

Emergent uses

• clickers
• device design booming (multitouch)
• content creation with mobile devices: podcasting, MySpace
• books Chinese novels, Japanese novels, more Japanese novels; microlit

Here's a link to an evolution of multitouch technologies

Locative media or AR or context-aware computing

• Information in places (1999)
• social software tied to place: PlaceSite
• physical tags: Semacode
• light physical tags cued to Web: YellowArrow
• all tied into boom in digital cartography, from GIS to Google Maps and Earth
• Light pen hyperlinking
• AR storytelling: 34N, 118W

Readings

Adam Greenfield, Everyware : the dawning age of ubiquitous computing (2006)

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