02709cam a2200349 a 4500 15884693 BD-DhUL 20140808114741.0 090828s2010 mau b 001 0 eng 2009033440 GBB021665 bnb 015483351 Uk 9780262013918 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0262013916 (hardcover : alk. paper) (OCoLC)ocn435628685 DLC DLC UKM C#P YDXCP BWX CDX SNK BD-DhUL QA76.5915 .C695 2010 006./54 22 COT Coyne, Richard. The tuning of place : sociable spaces and pervasive digital media / Richard Coyne. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010. xxviii, 330 p. ; 24 cm. US$ 31.50 Includes bibliographical references and index. "How do pervasive digital devices - smartphones, iPods, GPS navigation systems, and cameras, among others - influence the way we use spaces? In The Tuning of Place, Richard Coyne argues that these ubiquitous devices and the networks that support them become the means of making incremental adjustments within spaces - of tuning place. Pervasive media help us formulate a sense of place, writes Coyne, through their capacity to introduce small changes, in the same way that tuning a musical instrument invokes the subtle process of recalibration. Places are inhabited spaces, populated by people, their concerns, memories, stories, conversations, encounters, and artifacts. The tuning of place - whereby people use their devices in their interactions with one another - is also a tuning of social relations." "The range of ubiquity is vast - from the familiar phones and handheld devices through RFID tags, smart badges, dynamic signage, microprocessors in cars and kitchen appliances, wearable computing, and prosthetics, to devices still in development. Rather than catalog achievements and predictions, Coyne offers a theoretical framework for discussing pervasive media that can inform developers, designers, and users as they contemplate interventions into the environment. Processes of tuning can lead to consideration of themes highly relevant to pervasive computing: intervention, calibration, wedges, habits, rhythm, tags, taps, tactics, thresholds, aggregation, noise, and interference."--BOOK JACKET. Ubiquitous computing. Mobile computing. Online social networks. 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK xh12 2009-08-28 xh12 2009-08-28 xe13 2010-07-01 2 copies rec'd., to CIP ver. xh00 2010-07-08 to USPL/STM 1373 1373 0 0 ddc 0 006_540000000000000_COT 0 NFIC 2288 DUSL DUSL GEN 2012-12-24 Purchased 006./54 COT 477611 2014-08-08 1 2014-08-08 BK