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Alex S. Taylor
Researcher at City University London
Publications - 134
Citations - 5082
Alex S. Taylor is an academic researcher from City University London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Computer science & Mobile phone. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 127 publications receiving 4616 citations. Previous affiliations of Alex S. Taylor include Xerox & University of Surrey.
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The Gift of the Gab? : A Design OrientedSociology of Young People's Use of Mobiles
Alex S. Taylor,Richard Harper +1 more
TL;DR: It is revealed that young people use mobile phone content and the phonesthemselves to participate in the practices of gift exchange and a number of possibilities for future phone-based applications and supporting hardware are suggested.
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Machine intelligence
TL;DR: Examining the ways intelligence is seen and enacted gives rise to a very different way of thinking about the intersection between human and machine, and thus promotes some radically new types of interactions with computing machines.
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Driving and 'passengering': Notes on the ordinary organization of car travel
Eric Laurier,Hayden Lorimer,Barry Brown,Owain Jones,Oskar Juhlin,Allyson F. Noble,Mark Perry,Daniele Pica,Philippe Sormani,Ignaz Strebel,Laurel Swan,Alex S. Taylor,Laura Watts,Alexandra Weilenmann +13 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how social units such as families or relationships such as colleagues or friends are re-assembled and re-organised in the small-scale spaces that are car interiors.
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Age-old practices in the 'new world': a study of gift-giving between teenage mobile phone users
Alex S. Taylor,Richard Harper +1 more
TL;DR: An overview of the data collected from an ethnographic study of teenagers and their use of mobile phones suggests that teenagers use their phones to participate in social practices that closely resemble forms of ritualised gift-giving.
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Artful systems in the home
Alex S. Taylor,Laurel Swan +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that technologies must be designed to accommodate the rich and diverse ways in which people organize their homes, providing them with the resources to artfully construct their own systems rather than enforcing ones that are removed from their own experiences.