Interactions, Volume 15

Volume 15, Number 1, January 2008

Toward a model of innovation Welcome

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  Richard Anderson, Jon Kolko:
  Interactions: experiences, people, technology. 4-5

On the language of Interactions

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  Elizabeth F. Churchill:
  Ps and Qs - What's in a name?: idioms, metaphors, and design. 6-10
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  Tom Chi, Kevin Cheng:
  OK/Cancel - Being popular. 9
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  Alex Wright:
  Feature - Primal interactions. 11-12
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  Fred Sampson:
  (P)review - Glut: mastering information through the ages. 13-14
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  Peter Fröhlich, Lynne Baillie, Rainer Simon:
  Feature - Realizing the vision of mobile spatial interaction. 15-18
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  Feature - The linguistic command line. 19-22
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  Stefana Broadbent, Valerie Bauwens:
  Feature - Understanding convergence. 23-27

Key process, management & organizational interactions

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  Hugh Dubberly:
  Cover Story - Toward a model of innovation. 28-36
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  Secil Watson:
  Feature - The business of customer experience: lessons learned at Wells Fargo. 38-43
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  Terry Winograd:
  (P)review - Design education for business and engineering management students: a new approach. 44-45
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  Paul Burke:
  Feature - Designing for disagreement. 46-51
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  Dennis R. Wixon, Randy J. Pagulayan:
  That's Entertainmnt - Halo 3: the theory and practice of a research-design partnership. 52-55

Addressing critical challenges

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  Gabriel White:
  Feature - Designing for the last billion. 56-58
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  Gary Marsden:
  Under Development - New users, new paradigms, new challenges. 59-60
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  Eli Blevis:
  Sustainably ours - Two digital divides and four perspectives. 61-66
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  Allison Druin:
  Lifelong Interactions - My father's kitchen table. 67-68

Unanticipated consequences & influences

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  Donald A. Norman:
  The way I see it - Filling much-needed holes. 70-71
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  Steve Portigal:
  True Tales - Persona non grata. 72-73
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  Glenn Kowack:
  Time Lines - Unanticipated and contingent influences on the evolution of the internet. 74-78

Interactions cafe

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  Richard Anderson, Jon Kolko:
  On innovation, appropriateness, intervention design... 80-

Volume 15, Number 2, March 2008

Pencils before pixels: a primer in hand-generated sketching Welcome

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  Richard Anderson, Jon Kolko:
  Interactions: bridging communities. 4-5

The mess we've gotten ourselves into

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  Antti Oulasvirta:
  Feature - When users "do" the Ubicomp. 6-9
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  Elizabeth F. Churchill, Jeff Ubois:
  Ps and Qs - Designing for digital archives. 10-13
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  Donald A. Norman:
  The way I see it - A fetish for numbers. 14-15
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  Elaine M. Huang, Khai N. Truong:
  Sustainably ours - Situated sustainability for mobile phones. 16-19
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  Steve Portigal:
  True Tales - Everybody's talkin' at me. 20-21
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  Ronald M. Baecker:
  Timelines - Themes in the early history of HCI---some unanswered questions. 22-27

Design: what it is, and how to teach and learn it

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  Mark Baskinger:
  Cover Story - Pencils before pixels: a primer in hand-generated sketching. 28-36
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  Kevin Conlon:
  Feature - The future of interaction design as an academic program of study. 38-41
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  Tracy Fullerton:
  That's Entertainment - Playcentric design. 42-45
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  Tom Chi, Kevin Cheng:
  OK/Cancel - Failed games. 45
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  Carla Diana:
  Feature - How I learned to stop worrying and love the hackers. 46-49
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  Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Mitchel Resnick:
  Feature - Empowering kids to create and share programmable media. 50-53
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  Neema Moraveji, Zhengjie Liu:
  (P)Review - UIGarden.net: a cross-cultural review. 54-56
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  Hugh Dubberly, Shelley Evenson:
  On modeling - The analysis-systhesis bridge model. 57-61

Crossing the thresholds of indignation and inclusiveness

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  Jan O. Borchers:
  Feature - An ode to TomTom: sweet spots and baroque phases of interactive technology lifecycles. 62-66
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  Aaron Powers:
  Feature - What robotics can learn from HCI. 67-69
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  Gerard Torenvliet:
  (P)review - The design of future things. 70-71
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  Mark Baskinger:
  Lifelong Interactions - Designed to include. 72-75
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  Sheetal K. Agarwal, Arun Kumar, Sougata Mukherjea, Amit Anil Nanavati, Nitendra Rajput:
  Under Development - Raising a billion voices. 76-79

Interactions cafe

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  Richard Anderson, Jon Kolko:
  On logic, research, design synthesis... 80-

Volume 15, Number 3, May 2008

Optimistic futurism Looking at things differently

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  Richard Anderson, Jon Kolko:
  Editorial: Interactions: a new renaissance of worlds colliding. 5
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  Laura Seargeant Richardson:
  Feature - Designing from the inside/out. 6-10
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  Hugh Dubberly, Shelley Evenson:
  On modeling - The experience cycle. 11-15
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  Tuck Wah Leong, Steve Howard, Frank Vetere:
  Feature - Take a chance on me: using randomness for the design of digital devices. 16-19
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  Benjamin H. Bratton:
  Feature - What do we mean by "Program"?: the convergence of architecture and interface design. 20-26
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  Eli Blevis, Shunying Blevis:
  Sustainably ours - Images of sustainable interactions: seeing with the lens of sustainability. 27-29
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  Jonathan Grudin:
  Timelines - Travel back in time: design methods of two billionaire industrialists. 30-33
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  Richard Anderson, Jon Kolko:
  Crossword Puzzle: Clues and solutions. 35-

The Challenge at the Interface

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  Donald A. Norman:
  The way I see it - Waiting: a necessary part of life. 36-37
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  Elizabeth F. Churchill:
  Ps and Qs - Keep your hair on: designed and emergent interactions for graphical virtual worlds. 38-41
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  Allison Druin:
  Lifelong Interactions - Designing online interactions: what kids want and what designers know. 42-44
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  Tom Chi, Kevin Cheng:
  OK/Cancel - Parents just don't understand. 44
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  John Hopson:
  That's Entertainment - HCI impact and uncitedness. 45-47
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  Steve Portigal:
  True Tales - The journey is the reward. 48-50

Optimistic futurism

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  Richard Seymour:
  Cover Story - Optimistic futurism. 52-54
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  Scott Palmer, Sita Popat:
  Feature - Dancing in the streets. 55-59
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  Allison Arieff, Valerie Casey:
  (P)review - Merging design, business, and sustainability: the designers accord. 61-66
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  Zhengjie Liu, Zhiwei Guo, Kai Qian, Huiling Wei, Ning Zhang:
  Under Development - UCD in Chinese IT enterprises. 68-70
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  David Cronin:
  Feature - Into the groove: lessons from the desktop music revolution. 72-78

Interactions cafe

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  Richard Anderson, Jon Kolko:
  On the experience ecosystem, drama, choreography... 80-

Volume 15, Number 4, July 2008

Changing energy use through design - Welcome

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  Richard Anderson, Jon Kolko:
  Interactions: a quiet call to arms. 5

The changing relationships between producers and consumers

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  James Pierce, David Roedl:
  Cover Story - Changing energy use through design. 6-12
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  Hugh Dubberly:
  On Modeling - Learning curves for design. 13-16
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  Conor Brady:
  Feature - Organic digital marketing 2.0. 17-21
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  Michael Graber:
  Feature - Mashing up the marketing mix: introducing the 6th P...play. 22-25
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  Xanthe Matychak:
  Feature - Knowledge architecture that facilitates trust and collaboration. 26-30

Shifting perspective to look at things differently

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  Steve Portigal:
  True Tales - Hold your horses. 32-33
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  Apala Lahiri Chavan, Douglas Gorney:
  Feature - The dilemma of the shared mobile phone---culture strain and product design in emerging economies. 34-39
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  Elizabeth F. Churchill:
  Ps and Qs - Maps and moralities, blanks and beasties. 40-43
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  Bo Xie:
  Lifelong Interactions - Older adults, health information, and the internet. 44-46
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  Donald A. Norman:
  The way I see IT - Workarounds and hacks: the leading edge of innovation. 47-48
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  Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg:
  Timelines - Tag clouds and the case for vernacular visualization. 49-52

Enabling better outcomes and experiences

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  Gilbert Cockton:
  Feature - Designing worth---connecting preferred means to desired ends. 54-57
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  Matthew Kam:
  Under Development - Involving local undergraduates in fieldwork. 58-60
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  David Bishop:
  Feature - The theory of conservation of complexity. 61-63
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  Luke Wroblewski:
  Feature - Web-conscious content experiences. 64-67
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  D. Philip Haine:
  (P)review - Web form design: filling in the blanks. 68-70
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  Tom Chi, Kevin Cheng:
  OK/Cancel - Top 10. 70
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  Claude Y. Knaus:
  Feature - Interaction design for software engineering: boost into programming future. 71-74
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  Santosh Mathan:
  Feature - Image search at the speed of thought. 76-77

Interactions cafe

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  Richard Anderson, Jon Kolko:
  On marketing, sustainability, and pessimism... 80

Volume 15, Number 5, September 2008

We must redesign professional design education for the 21st century Welcome

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  Richard Anderson, Jon Kolko:
  Editorial - Interactions: we're not in Kansas anymore. 5

The importance of personal relationships

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  Uday Gajendar:
  Feature - Experiential aesthetics: a framework for beautiful experience. 6-10
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  Jeffrey Bardzell, Shaowen Bardzell:
  Feature - Intimate interactions: online representation and software of the self. 11-15
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  William Odom, Eli Blevis, Erik Stolterman:
  Sustainably ours - Personal inventories in the context of sustainability and interaction design. 16-20
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  Mike Wu:
  Lifelong Interactions - Memory impairment is a family affair. 21-23
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  Christopher A. Le Dantec:
  Feature - Life at the margins: assessing the role of technology for the urban homeless. 24-27

Old models no longer suffice

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  Meredith Davis:
  Cover Story - Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore... 28-34
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  Hugh Dubberly:
  On Modeling - Design in the age of biology: shifting from a mechanical-object ethos to an organic-systems ethos. 35-41
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  Elizabeth F. Churchill, Mark Vanderbeeken:
  Ps and Qs - Open, closed, or ajar?: Content access and interactions. 42-44
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  Donald A. Norman:
  The way I see it - Simplicity is not the answer. 45-46
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  Tom Chi, Kevin Cheng:
  OK/Cancel - Applied science. 46
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  Matti Tedre:
  Feature - What should be automated? 47-49
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  Steve Portigal:
  True Tales - Living in the overlap. 50-51

Factors to no longer overlook

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  Harold W. Thimbleby:
  Feature - Ignorance of interaction programming is killing people. 52-57
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  Charles Hannon:
  Feature - Mental and conceptual models, and the problem of contingency. 58-64
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  Jonathan Grudin:
  Timelines - Why Engelbart wasn't given the keys to Fort Knox: revisiting three HCI landmarks. 65-67
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  Gretchen Anderson:
  Feature - Let's get physical. 68-72
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  Rob Tannen:
  Feature - The researcher-tool mismatch: improving the fit between user researchers and technology. 74-78

Interactions cafe

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  Richard Anderson, Jon Kolko:
  On addressing wicked problems... 80

Volume 15, Number 6, November 2008

Designing games: why and how Welcome

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  Richard Anderson, Jon Kolko:
  Welcome - Interactions: having an impact. 5

Emerging approaches to research and design practice

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  Sus Lundgren:
  Cover Story - Designing games: why and how. 6-12
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  Liz Sanders:
  On Modeling - An evolving map of design practice and design research. 13-17
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  Donald A. Norman:
  The way I see it - Signifiers, not affordances. 18-19
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  Mike Kuniavsky:
  Feature - User experience design for ubiquitous computing. 20-22
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  Christine Satchell:
  Feature - Cultural theory and design: identifying trends by looking at the action in the periphery. 23-25
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  Janet C. Read, Panos Markopoulos:
  Lifelong Interactions - Understanding children's interactions: evaluating children's interactive products. 26-29

Reflections on innovation

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  Richard W. Pew:
  Timelines - An exciting interface foray into early digital music: the Kurzweil 250. 30-32
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  Steve Portigal:
  True Tales - Some different approaches to making stuff. 33-34
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  Nathan Shedroff:
  Feature - Design: a better path to innovation. 35-41
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  Bill Tomlinson:
  Sustainably Ours - A call for pro-environmental conspicuous consumption in the online world. 42-45
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  Elizabeth F. Churchill:
  Ps and Qs - Of candied herbs and happy babies: seeking and searching on your own terms. 46-49

Cultural and personal impact

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  Benjamin B. Bederson:
  Feature - Experiencing the International Children's Digital Library. 50-54
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  Rich Ling:
  Feature - Taken for granted: the infusion of the mobile phone in society. 55-58
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  Brian Romanko:
  (P)review - How society was forever changed: a review of The Mobile Connection. 59-60
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  David M. Frohlich, Matt Jones:
  Under Development - Audiophoto narratives for semi-literate communities. 61-64
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  Karen Renaud, Judith Ramsay, Mario Hair:
  Feature - Think before you link: controlling ubiquitous availability. 65-68
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  Fred Sampson, Keith Instone:
  (P)Review - HCI, life and death, and Randy Pausch. 70-71
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  Richard Anderson, Jon Kolko:
  Interactions Cafe - On mobile communication, cultural norms... 72