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Jeff Axup got me thinking with his mostMobile Community Design: Common Mobile Group Actions

"I've been thinking about how there are broad categories in mobility. Every activity groups do while on the move is different, but there are similar things that people do in different circumstances. Perhaps viewing mobile group behavior from this perspective will show areas that we are concentrating too much on or types of mobile actions we are neglecting. Perhaps common classes of actions have similarities across diverse situations? I'm not so much trying to artificially categorize mobility as to show common areas in the ethnographic research."

A bunch of us have been trying to look at online interaction tools in the context of activity categories for distributed communities of practice. Seeing this table for mobile phones helped me move my thinking a bit more forward. What was cool were the activities that extended beyond TALKING or messaging on the phone... but passing on the phone. Excellent expansion. Thanks, Jeff.