Mother Robot

We’re going to kick-it old school, back to the days when user groups got together to hack or work on projects together. The goal is to collaboratively and creatively craft a mobile trends overview - original content assembled by our group for use by the group and others. We'll use the process described below, publish the outcomes on the mobile TC site, and in the process get interacting on mobile trends that interest us. Food (sandwiches and snacks) and drinks will be provided by Pearson VUE.

Ron Lancaster and Peter Pascale will facilitate, assemble the work and get in on the site available for others.

Feel free to arrive with thoughts, stats, interesting links on a topic of interest if you want, but prep is not required. We want your thoughts and collaboration. We'll prioritize a set of possible trends to work on, determine interest, and break up into small groups by topic. Each group will have a set of time to explore these questions, and report a summary back to the group.

Questions:

- Summarize the current state and trends for the topic

- Identify data that supports or describes the trend

- Document applications that illustrate the trend

- Brainstorm several 'what-if' scenarios regarding the trends possible impact on computing and personal life. What are some of the (possibly far-out and wild) implications of the trend?

We'll be flexible, depending on the group and topic, you may want to focus more on one of the questions than others.

Possible Mobile Trend Topics:

- Device Capabilities (device integration, new sensors, price points, tablet formats, commerce, locational)

- Social Networking

- Video/Media Consumption

- Marketing and Commerce

- Gaming and Augmented Reality

- Success Stories

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