Week 8

Goals:

• Start the second round of experts-for-a-day.
• Begin to read about mobile phones and ubiquitous computing.

• Your annotated bibliographies will be due on Wednesday, November 5.
• Your second field note will be due by the final Thursday of the fall semester.

News and announcements

• No events this week.  Enjoy fall break!

Tuesday, October 28: Mobile phones & politeness; Characters

Prepare for class by doing the following.

• Write a few sentences addressing the following questions. I will collect this in class.

1. What practice would you like to sustain in your participation in class discussions? (That is, what are you doing well that you want to keep doing?)
2. What would you like to improve about your participation in class discussions? (That is, how could you better contribute to productive class discussions?)

• Read Lesson 4, "Characters," in Style.

• Read Ling, R. (2004). The intrusive nature of mobile telephony. On eReserve.

• Read Okabe, D., & Ito, M. (2005). Ketai in public transportation. On eReserve.

Wednesday, October 29: Polished draft of paper 2 due

Please print two (2) copies of a polished second draft of your second paper and turn it in to my office by 5 p.m.

Thursday, October 30: UbiComp visions;  cohesion and coherence

Prepare for class by reading the following.

• Lesson 5, "Cohesion and coherence," in Style.
• Weiser, M. (1991). The computer for the 21st century. On eReserve or distributed in class on Tuesday.
• Sterling, B. (2005). When our environment becomes really smart. On eReserve.

Janet Davis (davisjan@cs.grinnell.edu)