ActiveCampus - Sustaining Educational Communities through Mobile Technology
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The traditional university campus is designed to foster a thriving community of learners, but modernity has introduced many stresses. Mobile computing holds the potential to strengthen a campus’s traditional institutions of community through a process of indirect mediation. This paper introduces ActiveCampus, a suite of personal services for sustaining an educational community. The design and implementation of ActiveCampus is described, which is now in deployment on the UCSD campus.
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