Great potential exists for ubiquitous mobile computing to inform and develop the social experiences and relations that play out in community spaces. Yet, the transformative benefits of this technology are often lost because of underlying design that doesn’t account for complex human-technology interactions occurring in context. Professor of communication Dr. Geri Gay highlights results of recent research to reflect on the promise of context-aware mobile technologies for realizing an active rather than passive role for the people who use them.
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