Configuring a mobile platform for daily-life management following brain injury: a case study in ubiquity, agility and ethics

摘要

This paper offers a case study of a participant experiencing neurological impairments after brain injury who uses his mobile platform to author the management of his daily life. The study draws on the participant's own descriptions to propose delineations of the tropes 'ubiquity' and 'agility' with reference to technology participation in daily life. The study attends to an ethical research matter of privacy in the study of daily-life management, not least where the participant has recorded others' personal details. In conclusion, ethical parameters are established for a closer study of technology ubiquity and agility in daily life after brain injury.