[Air-L] Fwd: mobile apps for universities

[Conor Schaefer]

Peter, your point is well taken, namely that research dollars shouldn't fund
the expansion of marketshare for a particular company. But honestly, I do
find it a compelling research topic to incorporate the design of information
systems into education, rather than just the critique of them.

Sure, researchers love to observe, and that's all well and good, but why
always eschew agency? Observation is not apolitical, and as Heisenberg tells
us, it's also not a lack of interaction!

Designing "apps" (or applications, if it suits one better) is a challenging
prospect, and I think it would behoove researches to attempt to identify
meaningful criteria for designing them well. Isn't such active
experimentation in line with your perception of the spirit of research?

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Peter Timusk <ptimusk at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> I am thinking of the abbreviation to "apps" for applications and then to
> the word "apps" appearing in TV adds for the iPhone in Ontario Canada. I
> didn't think app stood for Apple.
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> Being raised mostly on TV in a family where one parent complained about my
> TV habits and another watched with me....bla bla. I learned in early social
> science studies referencing TV and radio is problematic. So I just avoid it.
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> On 14-Mar-10, at 8:12 PM, jcu wrote:
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>  HI Peter,
>>
>> I have always considered the term "apps' to refer to 'applications'
>> rather than to 'apple'. It is an interesting notion to think that when
>> people say 'apps', they are habitually referring to a product label.
>> Do you think this is true?
>>
>> joan
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>> On 14-Mar-10, at 7:26 PM, Peter Timusk wrote:
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>>  Sorry my reply is slightly toxic don't read further if concerned with
>>> that.
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>>> Begin forwarded message:
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>>>  From: Peter Timusk <ptimusk at sympatico.ca>
>>>> Date: March 14, 2010 7:19:31 PM GMT-04:00
>>>> To: Tracy Ann Kosa <TracyAnn.Kosa at uoit.ca>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] mobile apps for universities
>>>>
>>>> My university had mobile security alerts via text. They are introducing
>>>> more mobile interfaces. See them on the web site.  I won't call them "apps".
>>>> Apple is not my research director.
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>>>> www.UOttawa.ca
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>>>> On 14-Mar-10, at 2:40 PM, Tracy Ann Kosa wrote:
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>>>>  Hi All -
>>>>>
>>>>> My doctoral class is doing a collab course, and our project is mobile
>>>>> app development for the university.  Just started background research, and
>>>>> I'm wondering if anybody knows of any interesting apps that universities
>>>>> have developed for their students to use?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks kindly.
>>>>>
>>>>> @tracyannkosa
>>>>> tracyann.kosa at uoit.ca
>>>>> doctoral candidate in CS
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>>>> Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa.
>>>> just trying to stay linear.
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>>> Peter Timusk,
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>>> Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa.
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> Peter Timusk,
> B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University
> Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa.
> just trying to stay linear.
> Read by hundreds of lurkers every week.
> kiitos paljon,  merci,  thank you and muchas gracias for reading.
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