Interactive play between traveling children

This paper explores how children and young adults interact and conceive of the road. They intend to use ethnography and technology probes to explore this space. In particular, they introduce the idea of a peer-to-peer technology probe which can capture "phrases" of photos, scanned images, or audio and send them to other children in passing cars and capture data on usage to inform design. This is similar in some ways to Doctorow's notion of the community of music traders on the freeway using peer-to-peer to trade songs (see his latest book).

Using Ethnography or Technology Probe: Understanding Children’s future use of Roadside Interaction, 2004
Daniel Normark Vesterlind
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