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emerges as PoSR, along with its own newfound agency, within its environment, is critical.
Thing Theory is one possible approach to resolving
some of these problems while improving security and
maintaining privacy. Resolution can be achieved with
two approaches. The first, using either a virtual or emergent Thing-agent, (where the systems comprising each
car are constructed from a constantly aggregating information feed) to create a plausible POV for other cars on
the road. Alternatively, a series of literal Thing-agents
belonging to the road would effectively direct traffic,
replacing or augmenting current "Things" such as traffic
signals, roundabouts, and road markers.
A useful means of representing PoSR contexts might
include creating some form of dynamic commentary
regarding an agent's context that is constructed from
any combination of visual, aural, or language-based
elements that can be modified, rescaled, and browsed
by end users to find information they require from the
present or past about others they are interacting with,
directly or indirectly, in a compact form [6].
Appropriate descriptions of PoSR contexts may
offer location aware applications a tractable means of
traversing the complexity of single and multiple user
experiences while maintaining the complexity required
by users (and cars) to construct further applications of
the technologies they employ [6].

Author Information
Sally A. Applin is a Doctoral Candidate at the University
of Kent, Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing,
Canterbury, Kent, U.K. Email: sally@sally.com.
Michael D. Fischer is Director, Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, University of Kent, Canterbury,
Kent, U.K., and Vice-president, Human Relations Area
Files, Yale University. Email: m.d.fischer@kent.ac.uk.

Acknowledgment
This article is extended and adapted from [25].

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