ABSTRACT
This chapter describes comobility and explores how one family used the app to enhance their sense of connectedness whilst at a distance, mediating absences and presences in a highly mobile familial group. It introduces the term comobility and provides a review of literature and practices that engage with the concept. The chapter considers an interview with Liz, a member of the public who uses the iPhone app Comob Net, to offer a highly personal perspective upon living through comobility. It explores how aspects of copresent interaction are retained, transformed and re-invented in comobile interactions and how this can help us to understand distributed interactions. In the context of Comob Net, locational presence is the sense of knowing where someone is at a distance through the location of a blue dot on a map interface, which can be used as a fluid method of micro-coordinating movements and meetings at a distance, and an extension of the reach of copresence.
