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Portable, But Not Mobile: A Study of Wireless Laptops in the Home

Date: January 2008
Type: White Paper
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Overview: This paper reports a study of the use of physical space and wireless laptops by ten United States households. Although wireless laptops supposedly offer the opportunity to go Anywhere in the home, laptops were generally used in a small set of particular places rather than moving lithely through the home: wireless laptops were portable. The paper presents factors that influence laptop movement in the home. It also presents a model of peoples use of space in the home, identifying a small set of favored places of long-term use and a larger set of kinetic places used for specific tasks.


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