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In this paper, we report on the methodological challenges involved in conducting collaborative mobile computing. We investigated two social navigation studies in which pairs of participants were collaborating together over small, mobile, devices. Both of these studies took place in the field, in outdoor and unstructured environments. We reflect on the difficulties identified in previous literatures in addition to new obstacles we encountered. Collaborative mobile computing in the field presents several methodological challenges by combining the problems of many research areas (ubiquitous and mobile computing, and co-located collaboration). However, this avenue of research has many potential benefits to significantly impact real life.