Title :
Integration of portable media of communication with the traditional desktop devices
Author :
Makinen, Jarmo ; Jaakkola, Hannu
Author_Institution :
Tampere Univ. of Technol., Pori, Finland
Abstract :
I am lifelong learning while I am working, and you? Today, a student (like an influential person, an opinion leader, a trend-setter, etc.) uses many calendars side by side. Tomorrow, a lot of everyday activities might be combined and concatenated by the student´s own transparent calendar (wheather he or she is a project worker or part of a project organisation). This transparent calendar should be accessed by a desktop, laptop, PDA, etc. The calendar should be as transparent to the internal and external entities as needed by the user of the calendar. Transparency is a feature, which can link nearly all individual activities to a collective and electronic calendar. This paper can be understood as an idea for further technological applications in the field of distance education, e-learning, e-shopping or wireless world. The key concepts of this study are calendar-centric thinking and linking.
Keywords :
continuing education; distance learning; electronic mail; human factors; personal computing; time management; user interfaces; PDA; calendar centric linking; calendar centric thinking; collective calendar; communication; desktop; distance education; e-learning; e-shopping; electronic calendar; external entities; human factors; internal and external entities; laptop; opinion leader; portable media; project organisation; student calendar; technological applications; time management; traditional desktop devices; transparency; trend setter; wireless world; Calendars; Concatenated codes; Consumer electronics; Distance learning; Educational technology; Electronic learning; Human factors; Joining processes; Portable computers; Profitability;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering Management Conference, 2003. IEMC '03. Managing Technologically Driven Organizations: The Human Side of Innovation and Change
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8150-5
DOI :
10.1109/IEMC.2003.1252329