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CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Accountabilities of presence: reframing location-based systems
How do mobility and presence feature as aspects of social life? Using a case study of paroled offenders tracked via Global Positioning System (GPS), we explore the ways that locat...
Emily Troshynski, Charlotte P. Lee, Paul Dourish
MUM
2004
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
The Road Rager: making use of traffic encounters in a mobile multiplayer game
We present Road Rager, a prototype built in order to explore our hypothesis that proximity and a possibility to identify other players during temporary encounters could spur socia...
Liselott Brunnberg
MHCI
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Three applications for mobile epidemic algorithms
This paper presents a framework for the pervasive sharing of data using wireless networks. ‘FarCry’ uses the mobility of users to carry files between separated networks. Throu...
Paul Tennent, Malcolm Hall, Barry Brown, Matthew C...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Social gravity: a virtual elastic tether for casual, privacy-preserving pedestrian rendezvous
We describe a virtual “tether” for mobile devices that allows groups to have quick, simple and privacy-preserving meetups. Our design provides cues which allow dynamic coordin...
John Williamson, Simon Robinson, Craig Stewart, Ro...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Prototyping retractable string-based interaction techniques for dual-display mobile devices
Accessing information on mobile and wearable devices often requires the user's visual attention, and the precise operation of virtual or physical widgets. However, these inte...
Chandra Narayanaswami, Gábor Blaskó,...