Technology to demonstrate social networks

Hi everyone, sorry for the recent delay in posting. We're just getting ready to run a mobile, collaborative, group communication study in Darwin. It's taking forever to plan it, but I'm really looking forward to seeing the results. Look for a paper to be posted on the topic here in the next few months! Here's something else for you to look at in the meantime...

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This is another paper looking at how to connect the results of various user data collection schemes and the design of mobile devices. They concluded from a series of focus groups that teens were using the devices to advertise their social networks to others physically present, as well as to maintain social roles within groups, and determine group boundaries. They use activity theory as a framework for discussing some of the results.

Talking ‘Activity’: Young People & Mobile Phones, 2001
Alex S. Taylor & Richard Harper
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