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Hacking, Mashing, Gluing: Understanding Opportunistic Design
July-September 2008 (vol. 7 no. 3)
pp. 46-54
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"Hacking, Mashing, Gluing: Understanding Opportunistic Design," IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 46-54, July-September, 2008.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MPRV.2008.54,
author = {},
title = {Hacking, Mashing, Gluing: Understanding Opportunistic Design},
journal ={IEEE Pervasive Computing},
volume = {7},
number = {3},
issn = {1536-1268},
year = {2008},
pages = {46-54},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MPRV.2008.54},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
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JO - IEEE Pervasive Computing
TI - Hacking, Mashing, Gluing: Understanding Opportunistic Design
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SN - 1536-1268
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EPD - 46-54
PY - 2008
KW - Computer crime
KW - Mashups
KW - Ubiquitous computing
KW - Hardware
KW - Acceleration
KW - Consumer electronics
KW - Software prototyping
KW - Prototypes
KW - Programming profession
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JA - IEEE Pervasive Computing
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Opportunistic practices can accelerate and simplify ubiquitous computing systems design. Such practices may include copying and pasting code from online forums into one's own scripts or reappropriating components from consumer electronics for design prototypes. The authors introduce a framework that links opportunistic design for ubiquitous computing to hardware and software practices. They interview 14 professional and hobbyist "mashers"-Web 2.0 programmers, hardware hackers, and designers of interactive ubiquitous computing systems-to learn how designers choose between integration levels. Finally, they discover the mashups' epistemic, pragmatic, and intrinsic values for creators and how shopping becomes a central activity.

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Index Terms:
Computer crime,Mashups,Ubiquitous computing,Hardware,Acceleration,Consumer electronics,Software prototyping,Prototypes,Programming profession,Computer hacking,mashups,opportunistic design,hardware hacking,ubiquitous computing
Citation:
"Hacking, Mashing, Gluing: Understanding Opportunistic Design," IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 46-54, July-Sept. 2008, doi:10.1109/MPRV.2008.54
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