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- Andersson, Magnus, et al.
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Assessing the Mobile-Stationary Divide in Ubiquitous Transport Systems
- 2005
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Ingår i: Designing Ubiquitous Information Environments. - New York, USA : Springer-Verlag New York. - 9780387275604 ; , s. 123-137
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Many transport organizations seek to develop seamlessly integrated computing environments. A central problem in attempts to realize such ubiquitous transport systems is the divide that exists between stationary transport management systems and mobile applications such as embedded vehicle sensor networks and in-vehicle services for message handling. Originating from different Innovation regimes, these technologies are heterogeneous in that they rely on different technological platforms and knowledge bases, as well as the institutionalized settings from which they have emerged. This paper assesses how the mobile-stationary divide plays out in practical efforts to develop ubiquitous transport systems in road haulage firms. This assessment is conducted through a multiple-case study that identifies socio-technical challenges associated with this divide. Building on this assessment, the paper contributes a set of implications for enterprise-wide ubiquitous computing environments where coordination of diverse sets of mobile units is central to organizational performance. On a general level, these implications are important for any organization attempting to integrate mobile and stationary information systems.
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- Henfridsson, Ola, et al.
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Multi-Contextuality in Ubiquitous Computing : Investigating the Car Case through Action Research
- 2005
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Ingår i: Information and organization. - New York : Pergamon Press. - 1471-7727 .- 1873-7919. ; 15:2, s. 95-124
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ubiquitous computing envisions seamless access of mass-scale services over the multitude of contexts that users encounter in their everyday mobility. However, to be successful such computing must simultaneously be designed to provide transparent, integrated, and convenient support in localized use contexts. Thus, the issue of multi-contextuality makes the design of ubiquitous computing services and environments a challenging endeavor. While ubiquitous computing requires attention to the multi-contextuality of people’s mobile device use encompassing spatial, temporal, and social dimensions of mobility, the typical avenue for IS research studies has been the single context (e.g., team, organization, or inter-organizational).This paper reports on a grounded action research study with the objective of developing and testing design principles for handling multi-contextuality in an increasingly important ubiquitous computing environment – the car. Already supporting people’s everyday mobility and promising to provide ubiquitous availability of computing and communication infrastructure, the car is indeed a relevant setting for investigating the co-existence of different use contexts in ubiquitous computing. Contributing to the early stage of the ubiquitous computing research tradition, this paper not only empirically demonstrates that the car as a ubiquitous computing environment can improve the convenience of people’s everyday mobile device use by providing multi-contextual support. The paper also suggests our design principles and their associated socio-technical implications to be valid for other ubiquitous computing environments. Indeed, synchronizing fluid use patterns, scaling service manipulation, and signaling context-switches through awareness support lie at the heart of weaving ubiquitous computing environments conveniently into the fabric of people’s everyday mobility.
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- Henfridsson, Ola, et al.
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SeamlessTalk : User-Controlled Session Management for Sustained Car Conversations
- 2005
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Ingår i: The Interaction Society. - Hershey, PA : Information Science Publishing. - 1591405300 ; , s. 304-318
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter approaches sustained car conversations across mobile phones and in-car phone resources as a session management problem. Addressing this problem, the chapter outlines a session management model for user-controlled media switches during ongoing phone conversations. The model makes a distinction between the user and the infrastructure levels of session management. To illustrate and validate the rationale of the model, the chapter presents an in-car mobile phone hands-free system, SeamlessTalk, developed to support sustained car conversations. The user-controlled session management model contributes to current research on session management by addressing the explicit/implicit session management dichotomy in multiple media situations.
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- Ihlström Eriksson, Carina, et al.
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Online newspapers in Scandinavia : A longitudinal study of genre change and interdependency
- 2005
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Ingår i: Information Technology and People. - Bingley : Emerald. - 0959-3845 .- 1758-5813. ; 18:2, s. 172-192
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose - To examine the evolution of the online newspaper genre in Scandinavia. To provide an understanding of the institutional context in which online newspapers initially were produced and modified over time. Design/methodology/approach - A longitudinal study of three different types of newspapers in three Scandinavian countries. The study is based on interviews with newspaper representatives conducted during recurring visits in 1996, 1999 and 2002, and web page analysis of their online newspapers. Findings - The study illustrates how online newspapers have established a number of communicative practices significant for recognizing them as a distinct digital genre, and it outlines a set of institutional factors shaping the ongoing change of these newspapers. In addition, the study demonstrates the emergence of sequential interdependencies between online and printed news. Originality/value - The focus on Scandinavian newspapers in this paper complements studies conducted in other parts of the world regarding online newspaper genre evolution.
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- Olsson, Carl Magnus, et al.
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Designing Context-Aware Interaction : An Action Research Study
- 2005
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Ingår i: Designing ubiquitous information environments. - New York : Springer-Verlag New York. - 9780387275604 ; , s. 233-247
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Context-aware computing is an important research theme of ubiquitous computing. One of the most debated issues regarding context-aware applications is the extent to which such applications can capture the complexity of social context. This debate has been fueled by the fact that many of the documented context-aware applications convey a relatively simplistic view of context. The typical separation between human activity and context is problematic as context is not something simply in which interaction occurs.This paper applies and evaluates the plausibility of Dourish ’s (2001a, 2001b, 2004) interactional context view for designing context-aware applications that transcend the mainstream design agenda in context-aware computing. On the basis of a canonical action research study, we develop and test design principles for context-aware applications that convey an interactional view of context. Recognizing the car not only as an excellent example of a ubiquitous information environment, but also as an interesting and complex use setting already commonplace in the modern community, we have implemented and assessed a car infotainment application to provide us with a firm illustration of what such a context-aware application might be.
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