Paper Info
Title
Better Together: Disaggregating Mobile Services For Emergent Users
Abstract
Mainstream mobile interactions are focused around individual devices, with any collaboration happening via 'the cloud'. We carried out design workshops with emergent users, revealing opportunities for novel collocated collaborative interactions. In this paper we present Better Together - a framework for disaggregating services, splitting interaction elements over separate mobiles. This distribution supports both sharing of resources (such as screen real-estate, or mobile data); and, scaffolding of inclusive interaction in mixed groups (e.g., in terms of literacy or prior technology exposure). We developed two prototypes to explore the concept, trialling the first-collocated group-based shopping list making-with emergent users in South Africa and India. We deployed the second probe, which splits YouTube into its constituent parts across separate mobiles, in a longitudinal study with users in Kenya, South Africa and India. We describe the concept and design process, and report on the design's suitability for emergent users based on our results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3098279.3098534
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 19TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION WITH MOBILE DEVICES AND SERVICES (MOBILEHCI '17)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Emergent users, mobile phones, device sharing, disaggregation, distributed interaction
Literacy,Computer science,Design process,Mainstream,Multimedia,Mobile broadband,Cloud computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.36
35
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Simon Robinson114018.86
Jennifer Pearson213620.83
Matt Jones311313.80
Anirudha Joshi417926.46
shashank ahire573.89