Notes on the Editors and Contributors INTRODUCTION - Sara Price, Carey Jewitt and Barry Brown PART ONE: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FIELD OF CONTEMPORARY DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH The Historical Context - Paul Ceruzzi: National Air and Space Museum The Field of Digital Technology Research - Charles Crook, University of Nottingham, UK PART TWO: NEW DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES: KEY CHARACTERISTICS AND CONSIDERATIONS Context, Location and Mobility: A Human Story - Matt Jones: Swansea University Online Information: Access, Search and Exchange - Gary Hsieh & Nicolas Friederici: MSU, Michigan, USA Social Media, Human Connectivity and Psychological Well-Being - Sonja Baumer: University of California, San Diego, USA Engaging Practices: Doing Personalised Media - Heather Horst & Larissa Hjorth: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia: University of California, Irvine Ethics, Phenomenology, and Ontology - Anna Kouppanou & Paul Standish: Institute of Education, London, UK PART THREE: RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES FOR DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES: THEORY AND ANALYSIS Critical Theory of Technology - Sara Grimes & Andrew Feenberg : Simon Fraser University, Canada Critical and Cultural Approaches to HCI - Jeffrey Bardzell, Indiana University, USA Theories of Embodiment in HCI - Paul Marshall & Eva Hornecker: University College London/ University of Strathclyde UK Space and Place in Digital Technology Research: A Theoretical Overview - Luigina Ciolfi: University of Limerick, Ireland Affect and Experiential Approaches - Kristina Höök: Mobile Life @ KTH, Sweden Ethnographic Approaches to Digital Research - Barry Brown: Mobile Life, Stockholm, Sweden The Mediational Perspective on Digital Technology: Understanding the Interplay between Technology, Mind and Action - Victor Kaptelinin: University of Bergen, Norway, and Umea University, Sweden Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis: Empirical Approaches to the Study of Digital Technology in Action - Robert J. Moore: Yahoo Labs, USA Behavioural Trace Data for Analysing Online Communities - Cliff Lampe: Michigan State University, USA Multimodal Methods for Researching Digital Technologies - Carey Jewitt: London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education, UK Projection, Place and Point-of-View in Research through Design - Steven Dow: Carnegie Mellon University, Wendy Ju: INRIA, France, and Wendy Mackay: Stanford University, USA Design Research: Observing Critical Design - Laurel Swan & Kirsten Boehner: Royal College of Art, UK/ Goldsmiths PART FOUR: ENVIRONMENTS AND TOOLS FOR DIGITAL RESEARCH Tangibles: Technologies and Interaction for Learning - Sara Price: London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education, UK Material Computing: Integrating Technology into the Material World - Leah Beuchley: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA Haptic Interfaces - Eve Hoggan: UNiversity of Helsinki, Finland Contrasting Lab-Based and in the Wild Studies for Evaluating Multi-User Technologies - Yvonne Rogers, Nicola Yuill & Paul Marshall: UCL; University of Sussex; UCL, UK Ubiquitous Virtual Reality Environments - Yoosoo Oh: Daegu Univerity, S.Korea & Woontack Woo: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, S.Korea Location-Based Environments and Technologies - Ty Hollett & Kevin Leander: Vanderbilt University, USA Mobile Learning in the Majority World: A Critique of the GSMA′s Position - Niall Winters: London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education, UK Online and Internet Based Technologies: Gaming - Catherine Beavis: Griffith University, Australia Online and Internet Based Technologies: Social Networking - Kirsty Young: Sydney University of Technology, Australia Learner Modelled Environments - Kaska Porayska Pomsta & Sara Bernardini: Institute of Education, UK The Interplay between Research and Industry: HCI and Grounded Innovation - Lars Erik Holmquist: Principle Scientist, Yahoo Labs Afterword: Looking to the Future - Sara Price, Carey Jewitt and Barry Brown Index