Mobiphos: A study of user engagement with a mobile collocated–synchronous photo sharing application

Patel, Nirmal; Clawson, James; Voida, Amy; Lyons, Kent

doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2009.09.002

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“…Our approach is consistent with recent work on evaluations of mobile applications with sample sizes and methodologies similar to our study (e.g. Gronli and Ghinea, 2010;Heimonen, 2009;Heo et al, 2009;Patel et al, 2009). …”

Section: Methodssupporting

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“I played games as there was nothing else to do”

Goh

Lee

Low

2012

Online Information Review

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Purpose -Applications blending games with mobile content sharing have garnered much interest recently. In this paper, the authors aim to examine users' motivations for seeking and creating content in the context of Indagator, a mobile content sharing game. The authors also seek to investigate the impact of games on these motivations. Design/methodology/approach -The authors conducted a user study where 28 participants used Indagator for a week to create and share content (annotations). Participants were interviewed. All interview responses, and annotations sought (5,799) and generated (599) were manually examined and coded to ascertain motivations. Findings -Motivations for seeking content include awareness, task performance, exploratory play, killing time, and socialising. Those for creating include altruism, task performance, competitive play, killing time, reminder of experiences, self-presentation, and socialising. Additionally, games served as a motivator for mobile content sharing systems, forming a mutually beneficial ecology with content sharing. Originality/value -Prior work has not examined motivations for using mobile content sharing games, and has typically employed surveys rather than actual use of such applications. Understanding motivations has implications for developers. The benefits of incorporating games include increasing awareness for the application and addressing the "cold-start" problem inherent in many newly introduced applications.

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Section: Methodssupporting

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“I played games as there was nothing else to do”

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2012

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“…Co-located social media, when compared to traditional social media, usually have an emphasis on synchronous experiences augmented by mobile or wearable devices [40,42]. Classrooms are one of the more commonly explored se ings.…”

Section: Co-located Social Media In Community Buildingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community Building with Co-located Social Media

Ying

Holzer

Maitland

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development

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While co-located social media previously has been employed to enhance interaction in community building activities in previous work, its range of e ects have not been quantitatively described. In this study, we introduce a co-located social media app called SpeakUp to a community building project in the Za'atari Syrian refugee camp in Jordan. To overcome issues such as the lack of Internet access, we purposefully adapted the design of the application and ported its server to a low cost single board computer on a Raspberry Pi. We explore the e ects of SpeakUp through eld experiments with one control and two treatment groups, as well as with interviews and observations. Our results show that SpeakUp signi cantly increases refugees' level of participation and sense of community. Importantly, with the use of the application, female and male participants demonstrate no signi cant di erences in participation, showing that the use of such applications can be equalizing. We also found that co-located social media supports asynchronous interaction when outside-the-classroom activities are involved.

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“…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.…”

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“…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.…”

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Understanding Mobile Notification Management in Collocated Groups

Fischer

Reeves

Moran

et al. 2013

ECSCW 2013: Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 21-25 September 2013, Paphos, C

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Abstract. We present an observational study of how notifications are handled by collocated groups, in the context of a collaborative mobile photo-taking exercise. Interaction analysis of video recordings is used to uncover the methodical ways in which participants manage notifications, establishing and sustaining co-oriented interaction to coordinate action, such as sharing notification contents and deciding on courses of action. Findings highlight how embodied and technological resources are collectively drawn upon in situationally nuanced ways to achieve the management of notifications delivered to cohorts. The insights can be used to develop an understanding of how interruptions are dealt with in other settings, and to reflect on how to support notification management within collocated groups by design.

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Mobiphos: A study of user engagement with a mobile collocated–synchronous photo sharing application

Cited by 27 publications

References 20 publications

“I played games as there was nothing else to do”

“I played games as there was nothing else to do”

Community Building with Co-located Social Media

Understanding Mobile Notification Management in Collocated Groups

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