chevron Danah Boyd: Socializing digitally
An investigation into how "hanging out" has moved online
chevron Mark Newman: Connected strategies for connecting homes
For all the excitement about mobilizing entertainment and communications services, we still spend most of our time at home
chevron Leslie Haddon: How users take communication technologies home
A look at the sometimes surprising histories of communications technologies 'at home' and the role of their users
     
chevron The Faint: Phone Call
An email interview with The Faint, a song and a video
chevron John Seely Brown: Keeping things simple
People look for simple, intuitional, participatory ways to engage with technology as their private life becomes the center of the connected world
chevron Louise Barkhuus: The new television
How the central old-school constituent of home entertainment technology - television - will integrate into the digital home
     
chevron José van Dijck: Homecasting - video-sharing as a cultural practice
Video-sharing sites - a new, self-contained form of cultural practice that is anything but a replacement of television
chevron Mike Kuniavsky: Appliances evolve
ubiquitous computing appliances will fundamentally change the nature of the home and our experience of it
chevron Fausto Sainz de Salces: Pleasant, personalized, portable - the future of domotic design
Communications technologies can greatly improve people's comfort and safety in the home
 
 
 
     
chevron Matt Jones: The space to play
The universal human urge to play - and how it relates to the way we design our technology, our environments and our future
chevron Stuart Dredge: Mobile gaming - the troubled teenage years
How mobile games could move beyond the familiar hits like Tetris and Pac-Man to new concepts blending innovation and connectivity
chevron Gonzalo Frasca: This just in. Playing the news
Games are the new news
     
chevron D.B. Weiss: Lucky Wander Boy - the microsurgeon winner
An excerpt from a story about a man who finds a purpose through and is ruined by his obsession with video games
chevron Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn: Games in spite of themselves
An interactive space without rules, goals, language, competition - The Endless Forest
chevron Noah Wardrip-Fruin: Three play effects - Eliza, Tale-Spin, and SimCity
Three different models of what we experience through play
     
chevron Jim Rossignol: Gaming international
A comparison of European and Asian approaches to gaming
chevron David J Edery: Playing by creating
Why to be excited about user-generated content
chevron Lev Manovich: Interaction as an aesthetic event
A look at the playful user interaction in recent cell phone models and other personal information technology
 
 
 
     
chevron Lee Humphreys: Out with my mobile - exploring social coordination in urban environments
How mobile technology can facilitate social coordination among young urbanites
chevron Charlie Schick: One night - a global story of one night in the mobile life
A global story of one night in the mobile life
chevron Frank Lantz: Big Games and the porous border between the real and the mediated
Big Games: human-powered software for cities, life-size collaborative hallucinations, and serious fun
     
chevron Tim Cole: The mobile phone as the next electric guitar (or any other
instrument you want)
Create music with your phone
instead of just downloading it!
chevron Antony Bruno:
Where the long tail ends
Music as mobile content and the prospects of a hits-driven medium
chevron Mark Curtis: Mobilising our meat based selves - social planning while on the hoof
How it is that we are becoming distributed beings
     
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Rudy De Waele: Connecting cultures through music
The almost real world of mobile flyers, mobsharing and in-club VJ-mixes
chevron Karenza Moore: Come together -
the use and meanings of mobiles amongst UK clubbers
On the intersections of clubbing, music, drug and mobile use
 
 
 
     
chevron Jane Vincent: "I just can't live
without my mobile!"
How come we feel emotionally attached to our mobiles
chevron Tim Kindberg: We are cameras - image acts in personal interaction
About the social uses of camera phones
chevron Pierre Proske: Bleating in the bank queue
A play with an inversion of the silent communications that mobile phones promote
     
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Rich Ling: Nomos and the flexible coordination of the family
How mobile communication contributes to the maintenance
of the family as an institution
chevron Jeff Axup: Blog the World
Watching backpackers' blogging and chatting to inform the design of new tourism technologies
chevron Mark Federman: Memories of now
How we have focused on sharing the "here and now"
     
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Ruth Rettie: How text messages create connectedness
Connectedness is a premier driver
of mobile communication
chevron Joachim R Höflich: The duality of effects - the mobile phone and relationships
On the positive and negative effects of mobile phones as a medium for relationships
chevron Nicola Döring: Just you and me –
and your mobile
How people handle mobile phone calls during romantic dates and meetings with friends
 
 
     
chevron Mark Pesce: Understanding networks
A late convert to the philosophy of wireless tells us why wireless networking reigns supreme
chevron James Katz: The future of a futuristic device
Why users see the mobile phone as a futurist tool, and what they will want in their phones beyond the glittering shell
chevron Lars Erik Holmquist: The mobile user experience - how boundaries between devices are starting to disappear
Experiments with ways to break the isolation between users of portable computers
     
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Jonathan Donner: User-led innovations in mobile use in
sub-saharan Africa
On mobile support for health care
and other developments in mobile communication in Africa
chevron Mark Lowenstein: The next generation of usability - re-thinking the mobile device
Ten principles for optimizing the user experience in the face of an explosion of network and device capabilities
chevron Sara Price and Yvonne Rogers: Designing new learning experiences with pervasive technologies
The use and design of pervasive technologies for combined physical/digital learning environments
     
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Marc Prensky: Mobile phone imagination - using devices kids
love for their education
Especially with kids, cell phones are the ideal platform for computer-aided learning
chevron Nathan Eagle and Alex Pentland: Organizational rhythms - the search for the patterns of the aggregate
An exploration of the intersections of mobile phones, machine learning, and organizational behavior
chevron Jeff Pierce: Serendipitous sharing through personal information environments.
Data access - how mobile phones can become an extension of the PC
 
 
     
chevron Daisuke Okabe and Mizuko Ito: Personal, portable, pedestrian images
Camera phones have become pervasive in Japan and are being used as a ubiquitous visual capture and sharing device
chevron Atau Tanaka: Malleable contents
and future musical forms
How community-based listening and urban mobility lead to the creation of new, participative forms of music
chevron Yat Siu:
Eight visions from mobile Asia
Mobile usage in Asia, the US, and Europe, and a guess on which leading Asian mobile trends are likely to spread westwards
     
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Anthony Townsend: Seoul searching –
cybernomads and the ubiquitous city
A close look at Korea's digitally mediated urban space which, in Seoul's case, achieved a unique intensity
chevron Shin Dong Kim: Mobile media
mobilize generations
On the digital, mobile divide among generations in South Korea's fast ageing society
chevron Seiko Mikami: The perception and interfaces continuum
On her media art project "Gravicells", a visualization of complex technical systems behind processes we take for granted
     
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Weigui Fang:
China's culture of the thumb
Is there a Chinese internet with its own types of content, singular communication styles and specific aesthetics?
chevron Kenji Kohiyama:
Mobile communication and place
The cell phone as an omnipresent gateway to the virtual world will change people's notion of place profoundly
 
 
   
 
     
Henry Jenkins: Welcome
to convergence culture
How popular culture is making sense of the changing, convergent forms of digital media content
Tomi T Ahonen: From interesting ideas to compelling mobile services
Wireless services that are evolving
in merging media environments
Ranjit Makkuni: Visions of
culture in the era of mobility
Learn more about culturally
reflective computing
     
Heinz Hermanns: Mobile movies – taking film to the public space
The qualities, restraints and perspectives of the new cinematic genre "mobile movie"
Oskar Juhlin: Beyond just getting there – the interactive road
The experiential qualities in traffic encounters and how these could be augmented by new mobile technologies
Randy Covington:
The year of the (mo)blogger
Experiences with the "Wireless Election Connection", a moblogg that covered the presidential elections in the United States of America
     
Richard Harper:
The mistake of convergence
On meta devices that bundle disjunct streams of revenue, but neglect the relationship between media and platform
Dean Wood: Video and multimedia –
a social engagement
About the future of multimedia and video on the handset, and how this will enable the consumer to do more
Frans Mäyrä: The city shaman dances with virtual wolves – researching pervasive mobile gaming
Step into the "magic circle"
of pervasive game playing
 
     
Erkki Huhtamo:
Hidden histories of mobile media
Current uses of mobile communication devices and some of the historical points on which media developments abandoned fixed location
Mike Butcher: Rewind>fast
forward>play – mobile Napsterisation
Napsterisation – the mass sharing of music files – is transferring to mobile networks
Adam Greenfield: Along the fault lines
– designing for deception, dishonesty,
and other happy facts of human nature
The social practices that have emerged around mobile telephony, especially the ones developing from unforeseen uses of technology
     
Tim Clark: Mobile communications and the wireless internet
– the Japanese experience
A close look at a society that handles huge portions of its communication needs via cell phones
Barry Wellman: The mobile-ized
society – communication modes
and social networks
The effects of the individualized connectivity provided by PCs and cell phones on social life
Cory Doctorow: Eastern Standard Tribe – a story about love, death and cellular telephony
Eastern Standard Tribe – an excerpt
     
Amparo Lasen: Affective technologies
– emotions and mobile phones
Mobile phones – objects mediating the expression and exchange of feelings and emotions
Drew Hemment:
The telephone exchange
The opportunities and barriers facing work with mobile media
John Chasey: The future of mobile gaming – multiplayer games
Thoughts about multiplayer gaming's role in the development of mobile gaming
 
     
Derrick de Kerckhove:
The body electric inside out
The mobilization of information
and knowledge construction
Ben Russell:
Locative media and social code
The social qualities of locative
communication
Mark Frauenfelder:
How to hide from your boss
How mobile phones can make
everybody's lives a lot more
complicated
     
Peter Cochrane: Information –
the ultimate meta-industry
"Information about information" as
the kernel of new business growth
Teri Rueb: Syncopated space –
wireless media shaping human
movement and social interaction
Wireless technologies expand the
context of human communications
Carol Strohecker: Evolving literacy –
crafting messages for senses,
sensibilities, and sense-making
How people use portable devices to
share understandings in everyday
settings
     
Gerfried Stocker/Andreas Hirsch:
Digital communities on the move
Digitally enabled communication
as a social system
Eric Paulos: Our emerging urban
computing landscape – Familiar
Strangers
Mobility, community awareness
and urban space
 
     
Anne Galloway: Mobility as world-
building/technologies at play
How mobile processes continually flow
and playfully shape our worlds
Luc Soete: The economics of the mobilized information society –
a blind spot?
A short discovery tour of the unknowns
of mobile behavioural economics
 
 
     
Timothy Druckrey:
'Real' Telepresence ...
On the position of wireless art
and "Relational Architecture"
Matt Locke: Light touches – text messaging, intimacy & photography
Text message poetry shares many
aesthetic and social characteristics
with photography
Eunhye Grace Chung: The Korean wireless experience – art or content?
Points of intersection between the
creative use of wireless
communication and wireless art
     
Usman Haque: Invisible topographies
"Sky Ear" reveals the richness
of our electromagnetic habitat
Matt Adams (Blast Theory):
Experiments in mixed reality
On the interrelationship of art and
digital mobility, of overlaying real
and virtual spaces
Tom Charity: A brief history of
wireless in the movies
How the cellphone made it's
appearance in feature films – from
"Wall Street" to "Minority Report"
     
David Toop: Walking through sound
Wireless technologies and the idea
of peripatetic music
Gillian Wilson: The wireless gallery
How mobile devices can add to
visitors' experience in art galleries
 
 
     
Michael Grebb: Cordless culture – how wireless networks are changing society
A forward glance at the development of wireless networks
Daniel Scuka: Mobile Internet for the silver market
Mobile solutions for the elder part of Japanese society
Mizuko Ito: Mobiles and the appropriation of place
Wireless tools are changing the experience of co-presence
     
James Goodman: Being unleashed – mobile phones, environment and society
The development of sustainable mobile communication technologies
Lutz Stobbe: Future mobile communication – more than a technology task
Balancing the vision of ubiquitous electronics with social and environmental considerations
Nick Hughes: Mobiles and the environment – here and now!
Potential relationships between mobile communications technology and environmental management
     
Hazel Butters: I'm a commuter – get me out of here: The future of teleworking
Teleworking changes business culture
Pete Gomes: WYSINWYG
How do wireless technologies and location specific content shape our future urban and suburban landscapes?