Paper Info
Title
Mystate: sharing social and contextual information through touch interactions with tagged objects
Abstract
Sharing social and contextual information via services like Facebook, Twitter or Foursquare has become extremely popular in the recent years. This paper introduces the novel MyState concept in which users can augment any kind of object with Near Field Communication (NFC) tags, can write any social or contextual information on those tags using their mobile phones and can publish this information on a social networking site just by touching such a tag with their phone. The distinct features of MyState are A) the possibility to augment any personal or public object with any contextual or social information, B) the possibility that everybody can touch those tags in order to post the related information to a social networking site, C) the speed and convenience to publish information by a simple touch as users don't have to look at the mobile phone screen, interact with mobile phone menus or write any text when touching an already deployed tag. The paper reports on two field studies which provide insights on where the participants placed the tags, how they used MyState and what type of information was shared. Here we observed that users typically shared identity, location, activity and time, but also feelings, social meanings and experiences. Furthermore we identified several distinct social usage patterns such as synchronizing activities, expressing moods, games and tracking shared items.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/2037373.2037444
Mobile HCI
Keywords
Field
DocType
social information,social networking site,touch interaction,mobile phone screen,related information,novel mystate concept,mobile phone,distinct social usage pattern,mobile phone menu,contextual information,social meaning,field study,nfc,near field communication,touch,social
Publication,Near field communication,Contextual information,Internet privacy,World Wide Web,Social network,Computer science,Synchronizing,Phone,Mobile phone,Feeling
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.53
11
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Robert Hardy121215.37
Enrico Rukzio280.53
Paul Holleis370858.51
Matthias Wagner424723.36