Mobile communities need wisely tuned architecture

“Social usability” will be a key concept for succesful merging of social and mobile sphere

CommunityCamp 2008 was the first of it’s kind in Berlin – a thematic barcamp, focused on the fuzzy issues of community. There were practical down to earth sessions around community management and some sessions for research issues and academic reflection as well. In my first session “Mobile Communities – types, trends, potentials”, I was trying to think forward beyond the services of today. There are apps on the mobile device just to keep in touch, others are location aware or realize social mapping. The combination of

Mobile Communities – Future Trends and Challenges

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mobile, social, semantic and sensor technology will bring a new space of possible “socio-technical configurations”. My abbreviation for the monster word “mobile-social-semantic-(sensor)-web“ is “moss web”. Succesful design of the architecture and interface needs a lot of sociological analytics and kind of “social usability” concepts.

The Saturday session was rather huge and we only made first steps to find relevant building blocks and understand the problematic situation of “transparent society” (David Brin 1998). The following Sunday session I held together with “Mo” (Mostafa Akbari, mosworld) a mobile expert from RWTH Aachen. The fruitful discussions resulted in the following slideshow (but I take all responsibility for any weaknesses).