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Addressing the Elephant in the Cloudless Sky: Designing a Commonised Mobile Network Infrastructure

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Publication date6/10/2020
Number of pages5
<mark>Original language</mark>English
EventCloudless Skies: Decentralizing Mobile Interaction: Virtual Workshop at MobileHCI 2020 - Virtual
Duration: 6/10/20206/10/2020
https://floe.github.io/cloudless-skies/

Workshop

WorkshopCloudless Skies: Decentralizing Mobile Interaction
Period6/10/206/10/20
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Abstract

Whilst the notion of a creating a ‘cloudless sky’ by moving control and processing to the edge of the network, i.e. mobile devices, provides greater agency to users over the handling of their data, it still exists within a privately controlled networked infrastructure. Infrastructure can thus be considered the elephant in the room or in this case cloudless sky. In this paper, we address the elephant by considering a more radical and perhaps utopian perspective of providing greater user agency over the networked infrastructure itself.