Co-present photo sharing on mobile devices

ABSTRACT

The paper reports a mobile application that allows users to share photos with other co-present users by synchronizing the display on multiple mobile devices. Various floor control policies (software locks that determine when someone can control the displays) were implemented. The behaviour of groups of users was studied to determine how people would use this application for sharing photos and how various floor control policies affect this behaviour. Explicit policies was shown to be the best strategy for structured presentations, but when all locks were removed, the users created a new form of social interaction which seemed to be a more compelling use of the technology than the original, intended, application.

REFERENCES

• 1: Trent Apted , Judy Kay , Aaron Quigley, Tabletop sharing of digital photographs for the elderly, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems, April 22-27, 2006, Montréal, Québec, Canada [doi>10.1145/1124772.1124887]
• 2: Marko Balabanović , Lonny L. Chu , Gregory J. Wolff, Storytelling with digital photographs, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, p.564-571, April 01-06, 2000, The Hague, The Netherlands [doi>10.1145/332040.332505]
• 3: John Boyd, Floor control policies in multi-user applications, INTERACT '93 and CHI '93 conference companion on Human factors in computing systems, p.107-108, April 24-29, 1993, Amsterdam, The Netherlands [doi>10.1145/259964.260134]
• 4: Tom Brinck , Louis M. Gomez, A collaborative medium for the support of conversational props, Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work, p.171-178, November 01-04, 1992, Toronto, Ontario, Canada [doi>10.1145/143457.143476]
• 5: Chalfen, Richard (1987): Snapshot Versions of Life. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University. Popular Press.
• 6: Scott Counts , Eric Fellheimer, Supporting social presence through lightweight photo sharing on and off the desktop, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, p.599-606, April 24-29, 2004, Vienna, Austria [doi>10.1145/985692.985768]
• 7: Andy Crabtree , Tom Rodden , John Mariani, Collaborating around collections: informing the continued development of photoware, Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work, November 06-10, 2004, Chicago, Illinois, USA [doi>10.1145/1031607.1031673]
• 8: Terrence Crowley , Paul Milazzo , Ellie Baker , Harry Forsdick , Raymond Tomlinson, MMConf: an infrastructure for building shared multimedia applications, Proceedings of the 1990 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work, p.329-342, October 07-10, 1990, Los Angeles, California, United States [doi>10.1145/99332.99365]
• 9: S. E. Deering, Multicast routing in internetworks and extended LANs, Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols, p.55-64, August 16-18, 1988, Stanford, California, United States
• 10: David Frohlich , Allan Kuchinsky , Celine Pering , Abbe Don , Steven Ariss, Requirements for photoware, Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work, November 16-20, 2002, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA [doi>10.1145/587078.587102]
• 11: S. Greenberg, Sharing views and interactions with single-user applications, Proceedings of the ACM SIGOIS and IEEE CS TC-OA conference on Office information systems, p.227-237, April 25-27, 1990, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
• 12: Saul Greenberg , David Marwood, Real time groupware as a distributed system: concurrency control and its effect on the interface, Proceedings of the 1994 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work, p.207-217, October 22-26, 1994, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States [doi>10.1145/192844.193011]
• 13: Kindberg, T., Spasojevic, M., Fleck1, R. and Sellen, A. How and Why People Use Camera Phones. Technical Report. Consumer Applications and Systems Laboratory, HP Laboratories Bristol, 2004.
• 14: Koskinen, I., Kurvinen, E. and Lehtonen, T., Mobile Image. IT Press. 2002.
• 15: Pictavision http://www.pictavision.com
• 16: Antti Salovaara , Giulio Jacucci , Antti Oulasvirta , Timo Saari , Pekka Kanerva , Esko Kurvinen , Sauli Tiitta, Collective creation and sense-making of mobile media, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems, April 22-27, 2006, Montréal, Québec, Canada [doi>10.1145/1124772.1124954]
• 17: Risto Sarvas , Antti Oulasvirta , Giulio Jacucci, Building social discourse around mobile photos: a systemic perspective, Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices & services, September 19-22, 2005, Salzburg, Austria [doi>10.1145/1085777.1085783]
• 18: Chia Shen , Neal Lesh , Frédéric Vernier, Personal digital historian: story sharing around the table, interactions, v.10 n.2, March + April 2003 [doi>10.1145/637848.637856]
• 19: Vernier, F. Lesh, N. B., Shen, C, Visualization Techniques for Circular Tabletop Interfaces, ACM Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), May 2002
• 20: Vronay, D. Farnham, S. Davis, J. PhotoStory: Preserving Emotion in Digital Photo Sharing, Virtual Worlds Group, Microsoft Research

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)

Keywords:
co-present sharing, digital photography, mobile photography, photo sharing, storytelling, user centered design