See you on the subway: Exploring mobile social software

Nicolas Belloni; Lars Erik Holmquist; Jakob Tholander

doi:10.1145/1520340.1520697

See you on the subway: Exploring mobile social software

Nicolas Belloni^*, Lars Erik Holmquist, Jakob Tholander

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Abstract

This project explores the social possibilities of mobile technology in transitional spaces such as public transport. Based on a cultural probes study of Stockholm subway commuters, we designed a location-based friend finder that displays only people in the same train as the user. We aim at reaching a critical mass of users and therefore decided to make the system compatible with as many phones as possible, thus it was designed as a simple web application. An initial informal study pointed out consequences of certain design decisions on the user experience and highlighted social tensions created by presence awareness.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 27th International Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2009
Publisher	ACM
Pages	4543-4548
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781605582474
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1520340.1520697
Publication status	Published - 22 Sept 2009
Event	27th International Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2009 - Boston, MA, United States Duration: 4 Apr 2009 → 9 Apr 2009

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Conference	27th International Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2009
Country/Territory	United States
City	Boston, MA
Period	4/04/09 → 9/04/09

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Commuting
Cultural probes
Mobile social software

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Belloni, N, Holmquist, LE & Tholander, J 2009, See you on the subway: Exploring mobile social software. in Proceedings of the 27th International Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2009. ACM, pp. 4543-4548, 27th International Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2009, Boston, MA, United States, 4/04/09. https://doi.org/10.1145/1520340.1520697

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