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  1. The trouble with context …

    … or how to design an app for a tall, American business woman, using an iPhone, while riding a ferry across Hong Kong harbour.

    By Stephanie Rieger.

    The term context is all the rage. Mobile devices are always on, always with us, and have access to a wealth of personal and contextual information. They (in theory) know who we are, where we are and who our friends are. The devices themselves are also important as they are grouped into super handy categories that imply usage such as smartphone, tablet, or eBook reader. Many of us believe this presents us with a gold mine of opportunities to create applications, content, and experiences that are uniquely tailored to who we are, what device we’re using, and the context we are currently in.

    This talk will explore context, whether we actually know what we think we know, and whether we can and should seek to target experiences in this way.

    http://www.iakonferenz.org/sessions/22

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  2. Bill Buxton and Jared Spool (Spark | CBC Radio)

    Earlier this week, I wrote about digital Swiss Army knives. Today, Nora talked to researchers Bill Buxton and Jared Spool about the relative merits of single-purpose and multi-function devices. A shorter version of this discussion will air on Spark 98, but you can hear the full, uncut interview below, or download the MP3. [runs 38:34]

    http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2010/01/full-interview-bill-buxton-and-jared-spool/

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  3. Digital Space & The Context Problem

    ’ve heard Andrew Hinton give various talks on the problem of context, but he never fails to help me dive deeper into the problem. Simply put, digital spaces lack physical context, and frequently do a very bad job of substituting a digital context for the physical. This problem might seem a bit abstract, until we realize just how important context is to human cognition. Andrew has a number of great examples of this, but the one that resonates with me is role of context in social cognition. We have relationships with our families, our friends, our peers, our co-workers, and more, and we modulate both how we express our selves and how we process information based on which context we’re in. Digital social spaces tend to collapse these contexts, connecting us with all of our social circles through one channel, allowing us to express ourselves in one way. This gets worse as when we introduce aggregation into the picture, because we not only collapse social context but also “object” context. In some way, we can work around the problem of context by segregating our interactions across tools. Aggregators take away even that modicum of control.

    Andrew asked us how we’re going to start to understand the ramifications of this shift in context, and to start thinking about how we’re going to understand the problem. Is this a fundamental behavioral shift? Is it a problem to be solved? Or is it an opportunity to create new kinds of contexts?

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