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 languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationECSCW 2007 - Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
    EditorsLiam J. Bannon, Ina Wagner, Carl Gutwin, Richard H. R. Harper, Kjeld Schmidt
    PublisherSpringer
    Pages311-330
    Number of pages20
    ISBN (Electronic)9781848000315
    ISBN (Print)9781848000308
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 28 Sept 2007
    Event10th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, ECSCW 2007 - Limerick, Ireland
    Duration: 24 Sept 200728 Sept 2007

    Conference

    Conference10th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, ECSCW 2007
    Country/TerritoryIreland
    CityLimerick
    Period24/09/0728/09/07

    Keywords

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

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