Reflections On Innovation
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TIMELINES

30 An Exciting Interface Foray
into Early Digital Music:
The Kurzweil 250
Richard W. Pew

TRUE TALES

33 Some Different Approaches
to Making Stuff
Steve Portigal

FEATURE

35 Design: A Better Path to
Innovation
Nathan Shedroff

FEATURE

50 Experiencing the International
Children’s Digital Library
Benjamin B. Bederson

FEATURE

55 Taken For Granted: The Infusion
of the Mobile Phone in Society
Rich Ling

(P)REVIEW

59 How Society was Forever
Changed: A Review of
The Mobile Connection
Brian Romanko

SUSTAINABLY OURS

42 A Call for Pro-Environmental
Conspicuous Consumption in
the Online World
Bill Tomlinson

Ps AND Qs

46 Of Candied Herbs and Happy
Babies: Seeking and Searching
on Your Own Terms
Elizabeth F. Churchill

UNDER DEVELOPMENT

61 Audiophoto Narratives for
Semi-literate Communities
David Frohlich, Matt Jones

FEATURE

65 Think Before You Link:
Controlling Ubiquitous
Availability
Karen Renaud, Judith Ramsay,
and Mario Hair

(P)REVIEW

69 HCI, Life and Death,
and Randy Pausch
Fred Sampson with Keith Instone

INTERACTIONS CAFE

72 On Mobile Communication,
Cultural Norms…
Jon Kolko, Richard Anderson

November + December 2008

http:// interactions.acm.org