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Just-for-us: a context-aware mobile information system facilitating sociality

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Mobile computer technologies are increasingly being appropriated and used to facilitate people's social life outside the work domain. Addressing this emerging domain of use, we present the design of a context-aware mobile information system prototype facilitating sociality in public places: Just-for-Us. The design of the prototype system was informed by two empirical studies: an architectural analysis of a recently built public space in Melbourne, Australia and a field study of small groups socialising there. We describe these two studies and illustrate how findings informed our prototype design. Finally, we outline an ongoing field study of the use of the Just-for-Us prototype.

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MobileHCI '05: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices & services
September 2005
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ISBN:1595930892
DOI:10.1145/1085777
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  1. built environment
  2. context-awareness
  3. field study
  4. indexicality
  5. mobile information system
  6. sociality
  7. user study

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