Reimagining Mobile Phones

Author(s):  
Monica B. Morall

As the number of students with access to cell phones increases, so do opportunities to bridge the technology divide that may exist among them. With the shift towards virtual learning gaining momentum, now is the time for teachers to increase their digital footprints in the classroom, and utilizing available mobile devices is one way to increase digital access for all. Coinciding with the ease of access to mobile technology is the growing research that supports the adoption of multiliteracies to foster readers and writers who can participate in and impact the world around them with nontraditional forms of communication. Digital multimodal compositions (DMCs) are digital texts created through the use of various modes, including written text, audio, visual, and other interactive media. DMCs are an effective way to incorporate both mobile technology and multiple literacies into both face-to-face and virtual curricula.

2016 ◽  
pp. 1707-1717
Author(s):  
Judith W. Dexheimer ◽  
Elizabeth M. Borycki

Hand-held and mobile technology is steadily expanding in popularity throughout the world. Mobile technologies (e.g. mobile phones, tablets, and smart phones) are increasingly being used in Emergency Departments (ED) around the world. As part of this international trend towards introducing mobile technologies into the ED, health professionals (e.g. physicians, nurses) are now being afforded opportunities to access patient information and decision supports anywhere and anytime in the ED. In this chapter, the authors present a model that describes the current state of the research involving mobile device use in the ED, and they identify key future directions where mobile technology use is concerned.


Author(s):  
Michael A. Sletten

Learning a second language is challenging for anyone worldwide. When trying to learn a second language in a remote area of the world or under circumstances that do not allow for face-to-face learning, it becomes even more challenging. With the invention and development of mobile devices such as phones and tablets, it becomes much easier to accomplish through mobile-assisted language learning (MALL). Mobile-assisted language learning allows for a user to learn a new language using their mobile device, which is a ubiquitous form of learning. Mobile-assisted language learning is not without risk or vulnerabilities, however. It is imperative that users receive security awareness training, so they can operate their mobile phone in a secure manner. It is also critical that the mobile phones, wireless networks, learning management systems, and computer networks are also secured against various types of viruses, malware, and attacks. Without certain security measures being installed and configured on these devices and systems, the potential for security breaches present themselves.


REPERTÓRIO ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 222
Author(s):  
Jeannette Ginslov

<p class="p1">Abstracts:</p><p class="p2"><span class="s1"><em>P(AR)ticipate: body of experience/body of work/body as archive </em>and <em>AffeXity </em>are two AR (Augmented Reality) and Screendance works that attempt to capture, amplify and share affect and memory using AR, mobile phones and audience participation. <em>P(AR)ticipate</em> is an immersive, autobiographical, participatory and live installation work comprising: text, analogue hieroglyphs and gestural Screendance videos, tagged to the hieroglyphs, using the AR app Aurasma, within an interaction design. The work explores the porosity between analogue and augmented gestures, personal somatic memories and mediated experiences, of living in an apartheid and democratic South Africa. <em>AffeXity</em> on the other hand, is an interdisciplinary choreographic project examining affect, dance on screen and cities. <em>AffeXity</em>, a play on both ‘affect city’ and ‘a-fixity’. It is a collaborative project drawing together dance, visual imagery, AR and mobile phones, that audiences use for the viewing of choreographies embedded on tags in the city of Copenhagen Denmark. The project now forms part of the <em>Living Archives Research Project </em>at Malmö University. This paper describes the process and methodologies of capturing affective choreographies and memory on video, on analogue hieroglyphs and the processes of sharing them within interaction AR designs. It also describes the collaborative processes involved in both projects that attempt to allow audiences with mobile devices, to extrapolate hidden layers of affect and memory using networked mobile technology. These projects may shape choreographic formations that have not yet been explored and “is a specialised and evolving form - where the choreographic language is interrogated not for form or content sake, but in response to the changing stimuli and physical liberties of the technology itself.” (KRIEFMAN, 2014). This consequentially liberates the choreographic content and language from more traditional vocabularies, narratives and settings, to poetic ones. Above all, the paper investigates the archiving of affect within a relational and dialogical field, of “unfolding the self into the world, whist enfolding the world within” (BRAIDOTTI, 2013). It explores how we anchor our bodies to the world</span><span class="s1">(GREGG and SEIGWORTH 2010 cited in KOZEL, 2012) and how these “messy encounters become platforms for the transmission of affect (and memory) across bodies that themselves exist across layers of mediatization” (KOZEL, 2013).</span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s1">Keywords: </span>Haptics. Affect. Temporal Scaffolding. Screendance. Augmented Reality.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p3"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></p><p>A POETICA DA ESTRUTURA TEMPORAL E DA POROSIDADE: COMPARTILHANDO AFETOS E MEMÓRIAS</p><p class="p1"><em>Resumo:</em></p><p class="p2"><span class="s1"><em>P(AR)ticipate: corpo de experiência / corpo de trabalho / corpo como arquivo e AffeXity são dois trabalhos de AR (Realidade Aumentada) e videodança que tentam capturar, amplificar e compartilhar afetos e memória usando AR, telefones celulares e participação do público . O P(AR)ticipate é um trabalho de instalação imersiva, autobiográfica, participativa e ao vivo que inclui: texto, hieróglifos analógicos e videodanças gestuais, marcados aos hieróglifos, usando o aplicativo Aurasma de realidade aumentada, dentro de um projeto de interação.O trabalho explora a porosidade entre gestos analógicos e aumentados, memórias somáticas pessoais e experiências mediadas, de viver em uma África do Sul democrática e com segregação racial. A AffeXity, por outro lado, é um projeto coreográfico interdisciplinar que analisa afeto, dança na tela e cidades. AffeXity é uma peça em “afetar cidade” e “a-fixidade”. É um projeto colaborativo que reúne dança, imagens visuais, AR e telefones celulares, que o público usa para a visualização de coreografias embutidas em tags na cidade de Copenhague, Dinamarca. O projeto agora faz parte do Projeto de Pesquisa de Arquivos Vivos na Universidade de Malmö. Este artigo descreve o processo e metodologias de captura de coreografias afetivas e memória em vídeo, hieróglifos analógicos e os processos de compartilhá-los em projetos de interação em AR. Ele também descreve os processos colaborativos envolvidos em ambos os projetos que tentam permitir audiências com dispositivos móveis, para extrapolar camadas ocultas de afeto e memória usando a tecnologia móvel em rede. Esses projetos podem moldar formas coreográficas que ainda não foram exploradas e “é uma forma especializada e em evolução”, onde a linguagem coreográfica é interrogada não por causa de forma ou conteúdo, mas em resposta aos estímulos em mudança e às liberdades físicas da própria tecnologia “. (KRIEFMAN, 2014). Consequentemente, isso libera o conteúdo coreográfico e o idioma de vocabulários, narrativas e configurações mais tradicionais para conteúdos mais poéticos. Sobretudo, o artigo investiga o arquivamento do afeto dentro de um campo relacional e dialógico, de “desdobrar o eu o mundo, envolvendo o próprio mundo”(BRAIDOTTI, 2013). Ele explora como ancoramos nossos corpos para o mundo (GREGG e SEIGWORTH 2010 citado em KOZEL, 2012) e como esses” encontros confusos se tornam plataformas para transmissão de afetos ( e memória) em corpos que existem em camadas de mediatização “(KOZEL, 2013)</em></span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s1"><em>Palavras-chave: </em></span><em>Háptico. Afeto. Estrutura Temporal. Videodança. Realidade aumentada.</em></p>


2008 ◽  
pp. 3548-3570
Author(s):  
Nikhilesh Dholakia ◽  
Ruby Roy Dholakia ◽  
Mark Lehrer ◽  
Nir Kshetri

Mobile phones, mobile Internet access, and mobile commerce (m-commerce) are growing much faster than their fixed counterparts. Several characteristics of mobile networks make them more attractive than fixed networks for less-developed countries and for those countries that want to “leapfrog” the leading IT nations. To exploit the new mobile communications infrastructures, companies from developed as well as developing countries are rapidly integrating m-commerce technology into their business models. Countries around the world, however, exhibit considerable heterogeneity in their adoption of mobile phones and m-commerce technology. Examined in this chapter is the current stage of mobile technology and m-commerce diffusion across the world, and analyzed are factors influencing the diffusion process. In this chapter, the ways in which the m-commerce landscape of a nation—defined by the penetration rate of mobile phones, the specific combinations of different generations of mobile technology, and the blending of various standards within a given generation—is shaped by politicoeconomic, sociocultural, and policy-related factors are reviewed.


Author(s):  
Nikhilesh Dholakia ◽  
Ruby Roy Dholakia ◽  
Mark Lehrer ◽  
Nir Kshetri

Mobile phones, mobile Internet access, and mobile commerce (m-commerce) are growing much faster than their fixed counterparts. Several characteristics of mobile networks make them more attractive than fixed networks for less-developed countries and for those countries that want to “leapfrog” the leading IT nations. To exploit the new mobile communications infrastructures, companies from developed as well as developing countries are rapidly integrating m-commerce technology into their business models. Countries around the world, however, exhibit considerable heterogeneity in their adoption of mobile phones and m-commerce technology. Examined in this chapter is the current stage of mobile technology and m-commerce diffusion across the world, and analyzed are factors influencing the diffusion process. In this chapter, the ways in which the m-commerce landscape of a nation—defined by the penetration rate of mobile phones, the specific combinations of different generations of mobile technology, and the blending of various standards within a given generation—is shaped by politicoeconomic, sociocultural, and policy-related factors are reviewed.


Author(s):  
Judith W. Dexheimer ◽  
Elizabeth Borycki

Hand-held and mobile technology is steadily expanding in popularity throughout the world. Mobile technologies (e.g. mobile phones, tablets, and smart phones) are increasingly being used in Emergency Departments (ED) around the world. As part of this international trend towards introducing mobile technologies into the ED, health professionals (e.g. physicians, nurses) are now being afforded opportunities to access patient information and decision supports anywhere and anytime in the ED. In this chapter, the authors present a model that describes the current state of the research involving mobile device use in the ED, and they identify key future directions where mobile technology use is concerned.


2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-41
Author(s):  
Jacques Lezra

Humanism returns for the New Materialism in ‘nonhuman’ form as matter. New ‘matter’ and new materialism thus fashion the world to human advantage in the gesture of abjecting us. They commit us to the humanism of masochists. They offer an animistic and paradisiacal realm of immediate transactions, human to human, human to and with nonhuman, face to face, world without end. The impulse is tactically and strategically useful. But ‘matter’ will not help us if we fashion it so that it bears in its concept the signature of a human hand in its making. Can we do otherwise? Only by conceiving matter as what absolutizes what is not-one: matter from which no discipline will normally, normatively, produce an object or take its concept; on which heroical abjection will founder; matter non-human in ways the human animal can neither designate, nor ever count.


Author(s):  
Ward Keeler

Looking at Buddhist monasteries as social institutions, this book integrates a thorough description of one such monastery with a wide-ranging study of Burmese social relations, both religious and lay, looking particularly at the matter of gender. Hierarchical assumptions inform all such relations, and higher status implies a person’s greater autonomy. A monk is particularly idealized because he exemplifies the Buddhist ideal of “detachment” and so autonomy. A male head of household represents another masculine ideal, if a somewhat less prestigious one. He enjoys greater autonomy than other members of the household yet remains entangled in the world. Women and trans women are thought to be more invested in attachment than autonomy and are expected to subordinate themselves to men and monks as a result. But everyone must concern themselves with the matter of relative status in all of their interactions. This makes face-to-face encounter fraught. Several chapters detail the ways that individuals try to stave off the risks that interaction necessarily entails. One stratagem is to subordinate oneself to nodes of power, but this runs counter to efforts to demonstrate one’s autonomy. Another is to foster detachment, most dramatically in the practice of meditation.


Author(s):  
Jean-Yves Lacoste ◽  
Oliver O’Donovan

Giving and promise must be thought together. Being-in-the world entails being-with the other, who is both “given” and bearer of a gift promised. But any disclosure may be understood as a gift; it is not anthropomorphic to speak of “self-giving” with a wider reference than person-to-person disclosure. Which implies that no act of giving can exhaust itself in its gift. Present experience never brings closure to self-revealing. Yet giving is crystallized into “the given,” the closure of gift. “The given” is what it is, needing no gift-event to reveal it. But the given, too, is precarious, and can be destabilized when giving brings us face to face with something unfamiliar. Nothing appears without a promise of further appearances, and God himself can never be “given.”


Author(s):  
Michael Thompson ◽  
M. Bruce Beck ◽  
Dipak Gyawali

Food chains interact with the vast, complex, and tangled webs of material flows —nitrogen, phosphorus, carbon, water, energy—circling the globe. Cities and households are where those material flows interact with the greatest intensity. At every point within these webs and chains, technologies enable them to function: from bullock-drawn ploughs, to mobile phones, to container ships, to wastewater treatment plants. Drawing on the theory of plural rationality, we show how the production and consumption of food and water in households and societies can be understood as occurring according to four institutionally induced styles: four basic ways of understanding the world and acting within it; four ways of living with one another and with nature. That there are four is due to the theory of plural rationality at the core of this chapter.


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