Presenatation - Mobility and it's implications

So we had our presentation there recently and I like to think it went OK however i think we approached it wrong...approached it maybe the way we did Liam Bannon presentations... as apposed to what Gariela Avram wanted...

Myself, Jill and Brian were in a group and we decided to take the topic of Mobility and it's Implications from the list on the wiki. We thought it would be an interesting topic and the informaton about it ws vast and it was open to many angles.

We chose to read “Reflecting Human Values in the Digital Age” by Sellen, Rogers, Harper and Rodden, as we knew the class was familiar with it from Luiginia’s module last semester. We also chose “The Next Wave of Nomadic Computing: A research Agenda for Information System Research” by Lyytinen and Yoo, as well as “Expanding the ‘Mobility’ Concept” by Kakihara and Sorensen (a paper recommended by to us by Fabiano who's presentation had been the week before).

Most off my research was done online. I read different articles and researched computers and their advances. Some of my ideas were inspired from Fabiano’s presentation. I found the concept of the ‘digital nomad’ very interesting in his talk. I did research it more, but didn’t want to go into to delve into it for our presentation as I felt it wasn’t relevant and we as a class knew enough about it already from him. I read pieces from a thesis by Kakihara about mobility as well; “Emerging Work Practices of ICT-Enabled Mobile Professionals” but much of the concepts was the same as the other paper. As I mentioned in the presentation when I was researching the topic there was not much written about the social implications of the advances in computer mobility. Most the information online discussed various computer models and the year they came out. I decided I would talk to my parents about what their memories of computer mobility were and share it with the class.

I tried to make the presentation engaging. I wanted to add fun elements to it as well as being informative. I added, what I thought were attention grabbing aspects such as references to television characters (Zac Morris, ‘Saved by the Bell’) as well as a funny video (John Cleese).

We decided that at the end of the presentation we would have a discussion. We wanted to interact with the class and see what their thoughts were. I thought they brought up some valid and different points and the conversation was interesting and thought provoking. Overall I felt the presentation went well, perhaps maybe my nerves got the better of me, but I was happy with it in the end round.

Here is the link to the video I used in the presentation



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