Paper Info
Title
Forget-me-not: History-less Mobile Messaging.
Abstract
Text messaging has long been a popular activity, and today smartphone apps enable users to choose from a plethora of mobile messaging applications. While we know a lot about SMS practices, we know less about practices of messaging applications. In this paper, we take a first step to explore one ubiquitous aspect of mobile messaging -- messaging history. We designed, built, and trialled a mobile messaging application without history named forget-me-not. The two-week trial showed that history-less messaging no longer supports chit-chat as seen in e.g. WhatsApp, but is still considered conversational and more 'engaging'. Participants expressed being lenient and relaxed about what they wrote. Removing the history allowed us to gain insights into what uses history has in other mobile messaging applications, such as planning events, allowing for distractions, and maintaining multiple conversation threads.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2858036.2858347
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
Instant Messaging, Mobile Phones, Communication, Mobile instant Messaging
Mobile technology,World Wide Web,Unified communications,Conversation,Instant messaging,Computer science,Computer-mediated communication,Mobile instant messaging,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.38
8
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mattias Rost137822.31
Christos Kitsos230.38
Alexander Morgan330.38
Martin Podlubny430.38
Pietro Romeo530.38
Edoardo Russo630.38
Matthew Chalmers72033174.20