A Social History of the Mobile Telephone with a View of its Future
BT Technology Journal
Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life
Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life
Research Approaches to Mobile Use in the Developing World: A Review of the Literature
The Information Society
IDGD '09 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Internationalization, Design and Global Development: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
A dramatic day in the life of a shared indian mobile phone
UI-HCII'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Usability and internationalization
Understanding negotiation in airtime sharing in low-income microenterprises
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Sharing mobile phones, an enduring practice in developing nations, finds insufficient empirical effort or theoretical scrutiny as a sociological phenomena. Predominant conceptions of design for a mobile phone are aimed at independent and private behaviour as the device is perceived and designed to be a private object for personal use. In this paper we draw attention to the need for designing personalized spaces within the shared or familial culture around the mobile phone. We report on a qualitative case-study of shared mobile phones in low-middle income families in Mumbai city and Dharamshala, reframing personal communication devices as shared objects.