Embracing Mobile Presented by: Brett Oppegaard, Ph.D. Washington State University Vancouver April 2013 @brettoppegaard How Integrating Ubiquitous Computing

Embracing Mobile

Presented by:Brett Oppegaard, Ph.D.

Washington State University VancouverApril 2013

@brettoppegaard

How Integrating Ubiquitous Computing Technologies Can Help to Develop

New Voices, Engage With Diverse Perspectives, and Attract New Audiences

Brett Oppegaard, Ph.D., WSU Vancouver, [email protected], @brettoppegaard, 360-546-9416 (o)

People on this planet

Photos courtesy of, from left to right: Getty Images and National Geographic


Mobile subscriptions worldwide

Photos courtesy of, from left to right: Getty Images, IntoMobile.com, Wired, and Textually.org


People with access to basic sanitation

Photos courtesy of, from left to right: Getty Images and Whale.To


Toothbrushes worldwide

Photos courtesy of, from left to right: Getty Images and RiseAboveCebu.blogspot.com


Desktop PCs in use worldwide

Photos courtesy of, from left to right: Getty Images and ImageShack.us


In both 2011 and 2012 …In each of the past two years, more than 1

billion “smart” mobile devices (phones, tablets, etc.,

with Internet connections and the ability to run third-party

apps) were sold worldwide.Source: Read-Write-Web, IDC.


Growing connectedness via mobile tech

Mobile users with smartphones (in the U.S.): 55 percent

Mobile users with smartphones, 25-34 (in the U.S.): 74 percent

How does interpretation change when everyone and everything is connected via technology?

How should our systems be changing to reflect that?


Mobile has become an appendage

How does interpretation change when everyone and everything is connected via technology …

all of the time?


Mobile is big business, and start-ups … Some “Mobile-First” companies of note:


Mobile is big business, and start-ups … “Mobile-first” companies:

Worth = $1 billion Worth = $967 million

In April 2012, Instagram, a company

with 13 employees, which had been in

business for less than two years, sold. The value that day was

higher than The New York Times.


Mobile is big business, and start-ups … “Mobile-first” companies:

In March 2013, 17-year-old

Nick D’Aloisio, who still was in high

school, sold his news-reading app, Summly,

to Yahoo for

$30 million.D’Aloisio. Photo courtesy of: Getty Images


What is different about mobile?It's not just about a telephone and a calendar being in the same place, or even really the convenience of only carrying one technology device ...

• Ubiquitous, part of us (like an appendage)

• Connected to the communal brain everywhere, always

• Sensory inputs/outputs; creates interactive possibilities

• Personalized, highly usable

• Location / Spatial / Contextual awareness

• Social connector, includer / Anti-social avoider, excluder

• Direct link to people, not places; microcoordinator

• Makes the otherwise inaccessible accessible

• Offers analytics, from self-awareness to surveillance

• Synthesis creates new communication options


Mobile models: Examples from the field

The Corner: 23rd and UnionA free mobile app, developed as a public radio

documentary, based upon user-generated content.

Also try: City of Memory, WhatWasThere, VozMob, Stories Everywhere, Murmur, etc.

(All links available at: mobilestorytelling.net) http://23rdandunion.org/

New voices, diverse perspectives, new audiences

Interactive possibilities:User-generated content


Mobile models: Examples from the field

Bomb SightA free mobile app, by the University of

Portsmouth, based upon original census maps and historical images.

Also try: Walking Through Time, Milk, Time Shutter, Sepia Town, etc.

(All links available at: mobilestorytelling.net)

http://bombsight.org/


Accessible/inaccessible:Augmented reality


Mobile models: Examples from the fieldMuseum of London: StreetMuseum

http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Resources/app/you-are-

here-app/home.html


Accessible/inaccessible:Augmented reality


Mobile models: Examples from the fieldCleveland Historical

A free mobile app, developed by Cleveland State University, offers layered, map-based multimedia

presentations, which are curated.

Also try: Philly History, Shakespeare’s London, Niagara 1812, Murder at Harvard, City Sonic, etc.

(All links available at: mobilestorytelling.net)

http://clevelandhistorical.org/


Communal brain:Curated content


Mobile models: Examples from the fieldFort Vancouver Mobile www.fortvancouvermobile.net

New voices, diverse perspectives, new audiences Synthesis creates new

communication options


What will we be doing with mobile?“The computer in your cell

phone today is a million times cheaper, and a thousand

times more powerful and about a hundred thousand

times smaller (than the one computer at M.I.T. In 1965)” ...

“So what used to fit in a building, now fits in your pocket. What fits in your

pocket now will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years.”

-- Ray Kurzweil


What should you be doing with mobile?

What jobs do people who connect with your systems need done?

How can your systems be more mobile-oriented?

Thank you!

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Embracing Mobile Presented by: Brett Oppegaard, Ph.D. Washington State University Vancouver April 2013 @brettoppegaard How Integrating Ubiquitous Computing