Title
Gifts from friends and strangers: A study of mobile music sharing
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/978-1-84800-031-5_17
ECSCW 2007: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK
Keywords
Field
DocType
ad hoc wireless network,field study,social awareness,wireless ad hoc network,mobile technology,impression management,information science
Mobile technology,Information system,Impression management,Mobile music,Internet privacy,World Wide Web,Mobile media,Computer science,Social consciousness,Reciprocity (social psychology),Wireless ad hoc network
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
16
1.25
18
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maria Håkansson133418.82
Mattias Rost237822.31
Lars Erik Holmquist31369210.85