PORTAGE, the cost of carrying goods around. The things we do carry around in the PORTable AGE, are laptop computers, cellular phones and handheld computers.
The desire and need to roam the physical world fully connected to its electronic counterpart appears more burning than ever. But what is actually the toll exacted for this mobility? The small and powersaving equipment costs money, sure, but there is another price to pay in terms of a changing working environment.
When someone grabs the portable communication device and dashes for the airport, just how much of the ordinary workplace is actually carried in that piece of expensive hardware? Will it boldly follow its user wherever anyone decides to go? How much can still be done and what must be postponed? These are some of issues the PORTAGE project seek to adress.
| WWW | |
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| UCWandC | A presentation of the project and its goals and problems. |
| Papers | |
| Kilander 1997 | Working and Communicating With Small Mobile Computers. |
| Rutz 1997 | Users of Mobile Computing |