Title
Increasing Collocated People's Awareness of the Mobile User's Activities: a Field Trial of Social Displays
Abstract
Many activities that have traditionally been performed with different dedicated physical artifacts are now done with personal mobile devices. Consequently, the privacy of mobile interfaces has hampered social observability and chances for serendipitous interactions. For example, reading an electronic newspaper with a mobile device does not allow the surrounding people to be similarly aware of the reader's activity as traditional newspapers. Social displays are additional displays on mobile devices providing the surrounding people with light-weight cues about the activities of the device user. We implemented a prototype that reveals the user's current active application and presents its name on an e-ink display on the backside of a mobile device. We conducted a ten-day field trial with 13 participants using the prototype. The results show that the prototype was able to increase awareness of users' mobile activities and occasionally triggered interactions with others, without significantly violating the sense of privacy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2818048.2819990
CSCW
Keywords
Field
DocType
Collocated interaction,activity awareness,social interaction,face-to-face interaction,backside display,social display,personal interface,user trial,field study
Social relation,Observability,Computer science,Newspaper,Mobile device,Human–computer interaction,Mobile interfaces,Field trial,Multimedia,Face-to-face interaction,Activity awareness
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-3592-8
4
0.45
References 
Authors
27
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pradthana Jarusriboonchai14210.13
Aris Malapaschas291.84
Thomas Olsson320826.72
Kaisa Väänänen44011.32