Creating entertainment applications for cellular phones
Computers in Entertainment (CIE) - Theoretical and Practical Computer Applications in Entertainment
Supporting ethnographic studies of ubiquitous computing in the wild
DIS '06 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Designing Interactive systems
Space-time travel blogging using a mobile phone
Proceedings of the international conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology
MobGeoSen: facilitating personal geosensor data collection and visualization using mobile phones
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Mobile Technology for Children: Designing for Interaction and Learning
Mobile Technology for Children: Designing for Interaction and Learning
Experiences of participatory sensing in the wild
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Annotating ecology: looking to biological fieldwork for mobile spatial annotation workflows
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services
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In this paper, we present findings of a research project in which mobile phones were used as part of a multi-methods approach to analyze the effects of air pollution on children's journeys to and from school. In particular, we will present the results from the space-time blogs generated by 30 Year 8 pupils (aged 12--13) on their school journeys during four periods of study across the seasons of a year. The blogs were generated by the teenagers using a specially created application running on a mobile phone linked to a Bluetooth GPS unit and consist of spatially and temporally-referenced texts and images together with a record of their route using GPS coordinates stored at one second intervals. Whilst the blogs generated considerable amounts of quantitative information, particularly when coupled with the pollution profiles of the routes the teenagers travelled, it is the depth of qualitative information revealed in the interviews with the teenagers after each study period, using the routes and blogs as a trigger, that demonstrates the benefits of the multi-methods approach. In particular, we highlight some of the depth of contextual information revealed not only in regard to the use of the phone application and GPS unit but also the complex social factors which contribute to formation of the school journey.