Using Mobile Technology to Create Opportunitistic Interactions on a University Campus
| Author(s) : | R. Benjamin Shapiro Gregory R. Jay Ezekiel Bhasker Tan Minh Truong Steven W. Brown Robert Boyer William G. Griswold, |
| Publisher : | N/A |
| Publication Date : | 2002 |
| ISSN : | N/A |
| Abstract : | The traditional university campus is designed to foster a thriving community of learners, but modernity has introduced many stresses. Mobile computing holds the potential to strengthen a campus?s traditional institutions of community by creating serendipitous learning opportunities through a process of indirect mediation. This paper introduces ActiveCampus, a suite of personal services for sustaining an educational community based on this idea. 1, |