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See you on the subway: exploring mobile social software

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Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems archive
Proceedings of the 27th international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems table of contents

Boston, MA, USA

SESSION: Spotlight on work in progress session 2 table of contents

Pages 4543-4548

Year of Publication: 2009

ISBN:978-1-60558-247-4

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Nicolas Belloni	Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Kista, Sweden
Lars Erik Holmquist	Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista, Sweden
Jakob Tholander	Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Kista, Sweden

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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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.

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