In addition to giving an overview of the paper and some of the interesting observations or conclusions the authors make, please address the following questions from our class discussion last week in your presentation and enter your short answers into the table provided in the Homework section of this wiki.
1. For the specific technology in your reading, what are the:
a) Physical constraints (i.e. mobility boundaries)
b) Ecological implications (i.e. life cycle of the technology)
c) Ethical questions and subsequent policy issues (i.e. privacy)
d) Cultural issues (i.e. usability barriers in non-Western cultures or opportunity for fostering inter-cultural collaboration, if any)
e) Accessibility issues (i.e. is the technology inherently or by way of design made unusable to any specific group?)
f) Social opportunities (i.e. can the technology be a force for networking?)
2. How are the above questions affected by other technologies in your category not mentioned in your reading?
3. In the previous class we asked you to consider how smart objects/spaces affect and communicate with other smart objects/spaces. How might the specific technology in your reading interact with a learning space/object?