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Innovative Media in Support of Distributed Intelligence and Lifelong Learning
Department of Computer Science
Shin'ichi Konomi
Department of Computer Science
Individual, unaided human abilities are constrained. Media have helped us to
transcend boundaries in thinking, working, learning, and collaborating by
supporting distributed intelligence. Wireless and mobile technologies provide
new opportunities for empowering humans, but not without potential pitfalls.
We explore these opportunities and pitfalls from a lifelong-learning
perspective and discuss how wireless and mobile technologies can influence and
change conceptual frameworks such as the relationship between planning and
situated action, context awareness, human attention, distances in collaborative
design activities, and the trade-off between tools for living and tools for
learning.
The impact of wireless and mobile technologies is illustrated with our research
projects, which focus on moving "computing off the desktop" by "going small,
large, and everywhere." Specific examples include human-centered public
transportation systems, collaborative design, and information sharing with
smart physical objects.
Sponsored by the Center for Lifelong Learning & Design.
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