"People don't bump": Sharing around mobile phones in close proximity
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Authors
Colleges, School and Institutes
External organisations
- UCL
- UCL
Abstract
A large body of mobile phone sharing research focuses on creating new interaction techniques for sharing, and considers the usability of such applications and features whilst ignoring the context of their use, their adoption or appropriation. Therefore it is not known whether these technologies are used in practice or whether they really meet people's sharing needs. The aim of this research was to understand current real-world user sharing practices around mobile smart phones through the use of a diary study with 63 participants. We focused on close proximity sharing and discovered that new technologies to support this kind of sharing, for example bumping handsets together to exchange files, are not being widely used. More than half of all sharing via phones in this sample involved only telling, showing or passing the phone, though this often triggered further sharing. Possible explanations for this and their implications are discussed.
Details
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | MobileHCI 2014 - Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services |
Publication status | Published - 23 Sep 2014 |
Event | 16th ACM International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2014 - Toronto, Canada Duration: 23 Sep 2014 → 26 Sep 2014 |
Conference
Conference | 16th ACM International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2014 |
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Country | Canada |
City | Toronto |
Period | 23/09/14 → 26/09/14 |
Keywords
- Diary study, Face-to-face, Mobile phones, Sharing