Panel

Mobile Play: Blogging, Tagging, and Messaging

Moderator
Eric Paulos (Intel Research, Berkeley)

Panelists
Barry Brown (University of Glasgow)
Bill Gaver (Royal College of Art)
Marc Smith (Microsoft Research)
Nina Wakeford (University of Surrey)

Ubiquitous computing, by its very definition, aspires to weave computing technologies across the fabric of our everyday lives. Many of the successes and failures encountered during the pursuit of ubiquitous computing will be dictated by the manifest integration of play. It is play that helps us cope with the past, understand the present, and prepare for the future. This panel of experts is passionately interested in engaging in a critical dialogue around the applicability, adoption, and consequences of such elements of play in ubiquitous computing research. As motivation, several tremendously popular ubiquitous computing themes with playful elements will be examined: blogging, tagging, and message play.