"People don't bump": Sharing around mobile phones in close proximity

Afshan Kirmani; Rowanne Fleck

doi:10.1145/2628363.2634231

"People don't bump": Sharing around mobile phones in close proximity

Afshan Kirmani^*, Rowanne Fleck

^*Corresponding author for this work

Computer Science

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	MobileHCI 2014 - Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	549-554
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450330046
ISBN (Print)	9781450327718
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2628363.2634231
Publication status	Published - 23 Sept 2014
Event	16th ACM International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2014 - Toronto, Canada Duration: 23 Sept 2014 → 26 Sept 2014

Conference

Conference	16th ACM International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2014
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Toronto
Period	23/09/14 → 26/09/14

Keywords

Diary study
Face-to-face
Mobile phones
Sharing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Human-Computer Interaction
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Kirmani, A & Fleck, R 2014, "People don't bump": Sharing around mobile phones in close proximity. in MobileHCI 2014 - Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. Association for Computing Machinery , pp. 549-554, 16th ACM International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2014, Toronto, Canada, 23/09/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2628363.2634231

"People don't bump": Sharing around mobile phones in close proximity. / Kirmani, Afshan; Fleck, Rowanne.
MobileHCI 2014 - Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. Association for Computing Machinery , 2014. p. 549-554.

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