Mobile World: Past, Present And Future
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Edited by Lynne Hamill and Amparo Lasen Published by
Springer, August 2005 |
Why have mobile phones so quickly become part of our everyday lives? This book brings together the perspectives of key researchers in the area to explore lessons on social shaping, examining what can be learnt from the adoption of mobile devices that can be applied to other, newer, digital technologies.
Forecasting the impact of new technology is always difficult. Occasionally demand is underestimated, but more often it is overestimated, and at great cost. Digital technology is unlike anything that has gone before, making it particularly difficult to understand its implications for businesses, public services and society in general. By looking at what has happened in the past and what is happening now, and offering methods of using this knowledge to look forward, this book will contribute to reducing expensive forecasting errors in the future.
Key reading for all those involved with the future of mobile communications, this book is a valuable resource, particularly for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students on Mobile Technology courses, practitioners, and researchers working in mobile communications, CSCW and HCI.
This volume is a sequel to Brown et al, Wireless World: Social and Interactional Aspects of the Mobile Age, also in the CSCW series.
Contents
[PDF] Introduction. Digital Revolution
— Mobile Revolution?
Lynne Hamill
Part 1: Lessons From the Past
Ch 1. Mobile Telephony: Realising the Dream of Ideal Communication?
Imar de Vries
Ch 2. History Repeating? A Comparison of the Launch and Uses of Fixed
and Mobile Phones
Amparo Lasen
Ch 3. Kids will be Kids: the Role of Mobiles in Teenage
Life
Richard Harper and Lynne Hamill
Ch 4. A SMS History
Alex S. Taylor and Jane Vincent
Part 2: Present Uses
Ch 5. Emotional Attachment to Mobile Phones — An Extraordinary
Relationship
Jane Vincent
Ch 6. Textmates and Text Circles: Insights into the Social Ecology of
SMS Text Messaging
Donna Reid and Fraser Reid
Ch 7. An Evaluation of PDAs as Workplace Tools: An activity Theory
Perspective
Jenny Waycott
Part 3: How to Study the Future
Ch 8. Different directions in the mobile internet — Analysing
mobile internet services in Japan and Europe
Richard Tee
Ch 9. Context Perspectives for Scenarios and Research Development in
Mobile Systems
James Stewart
Ch 10. Instant Messaging and Presence Services: Mobile Future, CSCW and
Ethnography
Philippe Rouchy