Ambient Mobile Communications

"In a world where people are busier than ever and arebombarded with more information than they can process, ambient communications through mobile media can provide rich social connections to friends and family. Users can stay connected to the people that they care about by sharing awareness information in a passive way and being able to access this information at leisure, even in quick spurts throughout the day."

PDF link
http://chi2006mososo.telin.nl/docs/papers/Bentley_CHI2006MoSoSo.pdf

Glanceable Peripheral Interfaces

"Glanceable visuals better help users monitor secondary tasks while multitasking by enabling quick and easy information uptake. However, little is known about how to best design glanceable information abstractions for multitasking situations. ... The major contribution of this work is an understanding of how to design and evaluate glanceable interfaces, which will improve user ability to manage multiple tasks through low-effort monitoring."

Situated Learning

Situated learning is education that takes place in a setting functionally identical to that where the learning will be applied.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situated_learning

Mobile Phone Energy Use

Do you unplug your phone as soon as it's charged?

"If 10 percent of the world's cell phone owners did this, the group's final report said, it would reduce energy consumption by an amount equivalent to that used by 60,000 European homes per year."

http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-6118116.html