How to Make Wireless Directory Services Useful
Wireless directory services need to recognize both the limitations and the benefits of mobile phones, by making search results more to-the-point and context-sensitive.
Baker, Adam. Merges.net (2001). Articles>Information Design>Wireless Web
Lessons from the Medical Community: Physicians Access Patient Information via PDAs
Genesys, a system of medical care facilities in central Michigan, has introduced an innovative way to couple emerging mobile communication technology with sophisticated medical care. Recently, the hospital system introduced the use of hand-held wireless personal digital assistants (PDAs) by physicians in its 440-bed system, which is made up of three local hospitals merged into one.
Ficorelli, Cindy. Communication World Bulletin (2005). Articles>Information Design>Wireless Web>Biomedical
The world of mobile phones is a jungle of technologies with few established standards that, in some ways, resembles the early days of personal computing. Here the author presents an impressionistic landscape of this world, a glimpse of the near future, and thoughts on what it might mean for IAs.
Smith, Shawn. Boxes and Arrows (2002). Articles>Information Design>Wireless Web
Toward a Rhetoric of Locale: Localizing Mobile Messaging Technology into Everyday Life

This article explores the social meaning of locale in mobile communication research and introduces an approach of user localization to study technology integration. It investigates how locale forms an essential role in mobile communication in the way that practice, agency, and identities are articulated into a user localization process of incorporating technology into user's everyday life. It argues that the use of mobile communication technology is both a complex and dynamic interaction with its surrounding social, cultural, technological, and economic conditions, and an articulation work of self and locale.
Sun, Huatong. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication (2009). Articles>Information Design>Wireless Web>Geography
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