Surfing in the Crowd: Feasibility Study of Experience Sharing in a Taiwanese Night Market
(NOTE: Sheng-Wei Chen is also known as Kuan-Ta Chen.)
Social Proximity Applications (SPAs) have prompted a
promising opportunity for mobile services that utilize the
changes in daily life in the proximity of mobile users. This
paper describes our research-in-progress about designing and
developing a mobile SPA, which facilitates social interaction
among visitors in a night market crowd. This application allows
night market visitors to share their experiences in photos with
nearby others via their Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones. The
design was based on a two-week field observation in an attempt
to investigate the motivations and attitudes towards applications
of this type. After a three-night extensive trial we found the
value of the application - privacy-sensitive, playful, and
enjoyable, yields high consistency with results from field
observation. The ultimate goal is to identify potential engaging
design extensions to the current prototype.
Chao-Lung Lee, Yun-Maw Cheng, Wai Yu, Ching-Long Yeh, Li-Chieh Chen, and Kuan-Ta Chen, "Surfing in the Crowd: Feasibility Study of Experience Sharing in a Taiwanese Night Market," In Proceedings of OZCHI 2008, 2008.
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TITLE = {Surfing in the Crowd: Feasibility Study of Experience Sharing in a Taiwanese Night Market},
BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of OZCHI 2008},
YEAR = {2008}
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AUTHOR = {Chao-Lung Lee and Yun-Maw Cheng and Wai Yu and Ching-Long Yeh and Li-Chieh Chen and Kuan-Ta Chen},
TITLE = {Surfing in the Crowd: Feasibility Study of Experience Sharing in a Taiwanese Night Market},
BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of OZCHI 2008},
YEAR = {2008}
}
