Using Mobile Technology to Create Opportunitistic Interactions on a University Campus
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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.
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