'So Long as I Take my Mobile': Mobile Phones, Urban Life and Geographies of Young People's Safety

Urban Radio Network Planning for Mobile Phones

La planification de réseaux radio pour la téléphonie mobile en milieu urbain est une nécessite de gros calculs, qu'il est préférable d'exécuter sur plusieurs processeurs en parallèle. D'une part, il faut simuler la propagation des ondes radio afin de pr dire les zones qui peuvent être couvertes. Le programme ParFlow++ a été développé dans ce but. D'autre part, il faut choisir l'ensemble d'anten...

Mobile Phones as Pointing Devices

This paper explores the use of camera phones with pen input as a platform for generating digital annotations to realworld objects. We analyze the client-side requirements for a general annotation system that is applicable in mobile as well as stationary settings. We outline ways to create and interact with digital annotations using the camera and pen-based input. Two prototypically implemented ...

Mobile phones as programming platforms

Programming is virtually equated with text entry. Programming languages are defined by their syntax and semantics that ultimately lead to functionality when translated into system level operations. This text-entry focus is a tacit assumption. It rarely is argued that one ought to expand or alter this notion of programming. We argue that the emergence of mobile smart phones as full-fledged compu...

Talking ‘Activity’: Young People & Mobile Phones

This paper presents a brief overview of findings collected from an ethnographic field study of young people and their use of mobile telephones. The findings indicate that mobile phones provide young people with a means of demonstrating their social networks. That is, through owning and using mobile phones, young people demonstrate their participation in social groupings and define the boundarie...

Safety Issues of Mobile Phone Base Stations