Gifts from friends and strangers: A study of mobile music sharing

Maria Håkansson; Mattias Rost; Lars Erik Holmquist

doi:10.1007/978-1-84800-031-5_17

Gifts from friends and strangers: A study of mobile music sharing

Maria Håkansson^*, Mattias Rost, Lars Erik Holmquist

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Abstract

Mobile technology has turned the traditionally collective activity of enjoying music into an often private one. New technologies such as wireless ad hoc networks have the potential to re-connect listeners who are now separated by headphones. We report on a field study of Push!Music, a novel mobile music sharing system. Push!Music allows both manual and automatic sharing of music between users through ad hoc wireless networking, and also provides a social awareness of other users nearby. The system was used by 13 subjects for three weeks. In post-study interviews, we identified four categories of results: social awareness, sharing music with friends, sharing music with strangers, and sharing automatically. Based on this, we present implications for design that can be applied not only to mobile music sharing systems, but to mobile media sharing in general: Allow division into active and passive use; enhance the awareness of who, where and when; support reciprocity; and finally, support identity and impression management.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ECSCW 2007 - Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Editors	Liam J. Bannon, Ina Wagner, Carl Gutwin, Richard H. R. Harper, Kjeld Schmidt
Publisher	Springer
Pages	311-330
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Electronic)	9781848000315
ISBN (Print)	9781848000308
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-031-5_17
Publication status	Published - 28 Sept 2007
Event	10th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, ECSCW 2007 - Limerick, Ireland Duration: 24 Sept 2007 → 28 Sept 2007

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Conference	10th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, ECSCW 2007
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Limerick
Period	24/09/07 → 28/09/07

Keywords

Groupware
collaboration
communication
computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW)
cooperation
coordination
ethnography
software development

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Håkansson, M, Rost, M & Holmquist, LE 2007, Gifts from friends and strangers: A study of mobile music sharing. in LJ Bannon, I Wagner, C Gutwin, RHR Harper & K Schmidt (eds), ECSCW 2007 - Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, pp. 311-330, 10th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, ECSCW 2007, Limerick, Ireland, 24/09/07. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-031-5_17

Gifts from friends and strangers: A study of mobile music sharing. / Håkansson, Maria; Rost, Mattias; Holmquist, Lars Erik.
ECSCW 2007 - Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. ed. / Liam J. Bannon; Ina Wagner; Carl Gutwin; Richard H. R. Harper; Kjeld Schmidt. Springer, 2007. p. 311-330.

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