Possible Text to Read/Report
- Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies) (Interactive Technologies) (Paperback)by Mike Kuniavsky
- Wired's Mother Earth, Mother Board
- Flashlight Principles of Good Practice in Evaluation
- Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do by B.J. Fogg. Published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2003
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Simulation in the Enterprise: The Convergence of E-Learning, Simulation and Enterprise Applications by Sam S. Adkins. Published by Internet Time Group, 2003
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Growing Up Digital: the Rise of the Net Generation, (1998) Don Tapscott.
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Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way we create and Communicate, Steven Johnson
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Mobile Persuasion (discusses the 20 perspectives on how mobile devices can be designed to motivate and influence people)
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Connecting to the Net.Generation: What Higher Education Professionals Need to Know About
Today's College Students, Reynol Junco and Jeanna Mastrodicasa (2007). In a survey of 7,705 college students:
- 97% own a computer
- 94% own a cell phone
- 76% use Instant Messaging.
- 15% of IM users are logged on 24 hours a day/7 days a week
- 34% use websites as their primary source of news
- 28% own a blog and 44% read blogs
- 49% download music using peer-to-peer file sharing
- 75% of students have a Facebook account
- 60% own some type of expensive portable music and/or video device such as an iPod.