Monday, April 6, 2009

Wk 5 Notes

Mobile Social Software

- Thinking about social interactions.
- Desktop -> Mobile Technology
- Mobile phones -> ubiquitous handheld computing
- LCD = SMS
- Massive uptake of mobile phones (98% in AUS)
- Need to decide early on to use SMS or not

-Mobile phones thought to be intrusive
-Norms established for technology, etiquet, and rules.
-Private world invading public
-When rolling out the technology think of context and social implications.

Social + mobile
- When?
- fist thing in the morning, work, home, uni, doing something else.

What do we do with it?
- Chat, keep up with contacts, media sharing, sharing
- blurring boundaries, workplace/private

How does mobile technology change this?
-More accessible, any place, any time. Some restrictions.
-Different expectations.
-more intrusive.
-transportable friends.
-augmenting conversation.

MOSOS Application
-More than mobile browsing.
-Location sensitive
- guides, games, matchmaking

Design considerations
-push vs pull, asking or pushed out
-authority to author
-available to all vs specific technology required
-wi-fi chalking.

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