This document discusses mobile computing, including its cultural dimensions and how it enables mobility and technology representation. It provides examples of commonly used mobile devices like smartphones and describes some mobile applications like Wikicity, IceTV, Facebook, and banking apps. It concludes by considering how life would be different without mobile computing and the role of ethnographic studies in mobile design.

1. Mobile Computing
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2. Cultural Dimensions
• Urban Themes
• Friends and Strangers
• Mobility
• Technology and representation
• Framing Place

3. Rethinking Urban Computing –
Why we need to develop?
• Ethnographic Study
– What does Ethnographic means and why it is
so important?

4. Mobile Computing design Example :
“Undersound”
• A sound sharing system at UK Subway
(Tube)

5. Devices commonly used in Mobile
Computing nowadays
• PDA Phone
• Blackberry
• iPhone
• Netbook

6. Mobile Computing Application
Examples
• Wikicity
• IceTV
• Facebook
• Telstra Location tracking service
• Food Watch NSW
• Commonwealth Bank Mobile Internet
Banking

7. WikiCity
• A Local Guide in America

8. Wikicity (cont.)

9. Wikicity (cont.)

10. IceTV
• Remote TV recording software

11. Facebook
• One of the largest online social network

12. Telstra Location Tracking System
• Track where your friends are

13. Food Watch NSW
• Pin Point where the bad restaurants are

14. CBA Mobile Internet Banking

15. Conclusion
• What if we live in a world without mobile
computing?

16. The End – Thanks everyone