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Handheld and ubiquitous computing has the potential of disconnecting any computing activity from a single, fixed place of access. Most of the handheld, mobile devices we know and use today risk to generate a kind of neutralization of the sense of space. Mobile means, when we deal with portable devices, that we can access information no matter where we are; our territory of life becomes indistinct.
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Susani, M. (1999). Mobile, Ubiquitous and the Sense of Space. In: Gellersen, HW. (eds) Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing. HUC 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1707. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48157-5_4
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