Arianna Bassoli holds an MSc in Communication Sciences from the University of Siena, Italy, where she specialized in mass media. She then worked as a research fellow at Media Lab Europe for three years, in the Dynamic Interactions and Human Connectedness groups, mainly focusing on the application side of mobile peer-to-peer and ad-hoc networks. She is currently a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science, in the Department of Media and Communications. Her main research interest is the design of mobile proximity-based applications, technologies that support communication and data sharing among co-located people. Her work has been sponsored by the EU funded project Bionets. email: a.bassoli [at] lse.ac.uk

Johanna Brewer is a PhD student in the Informatics department at the University of California, Irvine working with Paul Dourish. She holds and MA in Computer Science as well as BA's in Computer Science and Philosophy, all from Boston University. She is interested urban computing, particularly in the design of technologies which can forge new types of connections between people and how it can transform or reinforce old ones. Her recent research centers around how an examination of mobility in urban spaces might help to inform these designs. Her work has been funded by the NSF and Intel. email: johannab [at] ics.uci.edu

Karen Martin has a BA(Hons) Interactive Arts from Newport School of Art and Design. After graduating she worked as an artist and a web developer before studying for an MScdVirtual Environments at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. She spent one year working at Media Lab Europe in Dublin as a researcher in the Everyday Learning Group. Karen is currently an EngD candidate in an interdisciplinary programme run by the Bartlett School of Architecture and the department of Computer Science at University College London. Her research focuses on the use of technology in public spaces to develop a sense of place and how this might affect social interaction and the sense of community. Her industry sponsor is BT. email: karen.martin [at] ucl.ac.uk