Paper Info
Title
See you on the subway: exploring mobile social software
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1145/1520340.1520697
CHI Extended Abstracts
Keywords
Field
DocType
stockholm subway commuter,initial informal study,social possibility,critical mass,user experience,social tension,mobile social software,mobile technology,location-based friend finder,certain design decision,cultural probes study,public transport
Mobile technology,User experience design,World Wide Web,Critical mass (software engineering),Computer science,Social software,Public transport,Human–computer interaction,Presence awareness,Web application,Multimedia,Information and Computer Science
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.94
6
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nicolas Belloni1202.35
Lars Erik Holmquist21369210.85
Jakob Tholander334132.51