Collective creation and sense-making of mobile media

Abstract

Traditionally, mobile media sharing and messaging has been studied from the perspective of an individual author making media available to other users. With the aim of supporting spectator groups at large-scale events, we developed a messaging application for camera phones with the idea of collectively created albums called Media Stories.The field trial at a rally competition pointed out the collective and participative practices involved in the creation and sense-making of media, challenging the view of individual authorship. Members contributed actively to producing chains of messages in Media Stories, with more than half of the members as authors on average in each story. Observations indicate the centrality of collocated viewing and creation in the use of media. Design implications include providing a "common space" and possibilities of creating collective objects, adding features that enrich collocated collective use, and supporting the active construction of awareness and social presence through the created media.

Understanding Mobile Notification Management in Collocated Groups

“…Work on mobile photo sharing in collocated groups has shown how people use these systems as a site of self-expression within social groups (Van House et al, 2005) and to support an on-going real-world experience (Jacucci et al, 2007). It has further emphasised the importance of a 'common space' to enable group access and use of resources to support collective creative practices (Salovaara et al, 2006), and social discourse around the shared artefacts (Patel et al, 2009). Our focus in this paper is to study how collocated groups handle and situate notifications within their ongoing interaction.…”

“…Moreover, technology support of leisure activities are relevant, such as cultural visiting (Brown et al, 2005;Bellotti et al, 2008), spectating at outdoor sports events (Jacucci et al, 2007;Salovaara et al, 2006), location-based games (Bell et al, 2006), and learning (Benford et al, 2005).…”

“…Particularly relevant to the CSCW community, notifications have been deployed to encourage user engagement in collaborative mobile systems for collocated groups; for example to support photo sharing and collective souvenir creation whilst in a theme park (Durrant et al, 2011), spectating at an on-going sports event (Jacucci et al, 2007;Salovaara et al, 2006), visiting a city (Patel et al, 2009), or to support the social fabric of a student group (Van House et al, 2005). This paper addresses the question of how these notifications are dealt with in the context of such grouporiented activities through a field trial of a collaborative mobile photo system.…”

Requirements for mobile photoware

“…More recent research has addressed online photo-sharing [4,5,12]. Some cameraphone-related research projects (e.g., [13][14][15][16][17]) have developed innovative systems using the new capabilities of cameraphones. These studies often revolved around a specific implementation and did not investigate general photographic practices.…”

MoBlogs, Sharing Situations, and Lived Life

“…Thus 'the spectator' is re-imagined through the use of novel technologies, becoming an active participant in the creation of an event. [16] report on a messaging application, Media Stories, that supports the immediate, collective construction of a blog. They describe how Media Stories allowed users who are co-present at an event to have an enhanced feeling of "being there", creating a sense of "shared space".…”