Cultural mobilities: diversity and agency in urban computing

  • Authors:
  • Paul Dourish;Ken Anderson;Dawn Nafus

  • Affiliations:
  • Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA;People and Practices Research, Intel Corporation, Beaverton, OR;People and Practices Research, Intel Corporation, Beaverton, OR

  • Venue:
  • INTERACT'07 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The rise of wireless networks and portable computing devices has been accompanied by an increasing interest in technology and mobility, and in the urban environment as a site of interaction. However, most investigations have taken a relatively narrow view of urban mobility. In consequence, design practice runs the risk of privileging particular viewpoints, forms of mobility, and social groups. We are interested in a view of mobility that reaches beyond traditional assumptions about the who, when, why, and what of mobility. Based on analytic perspectives from the social sciences and on empirical fieldwork in a range of settings, we outline an alternative view of technology and mobility with both analytic and design implications.