CityFlocks: designing social navigation for urban mobile information systems Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:3142735, abstract = {CityFlocks is a mobile system enabling visitors and new residents in a city to tap into the knowledge and experiences of local residents, so as to gather information about their new environment. Its design specifically aims to lower existing barriers of access and facilitate social navigation in urban places. This paper presents a design case study of a mobile system prototype that offers an easy way for information seeking new residents or visitors to access tacit knowledge from local people about their new community. In various user tests we evaluate two general user interaction alternatives - direct and indirect social navigation - and analyse under what conditions which interaction method works better for people using a mobile device to socially navigate urban environments. The outcomes are relevant for the user interaction design of future mobile information systems that leverage off of a social navigation approach.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Bilandzic, Mark and Foth, Marcus and De Luca, Alexander}, booktitle = {DIS '08: Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Designing interactive systems}, citeulike-article-id = {3142735}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1394445.1394464}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1394445.1394464}, doi = {10.1145/1394445.1394464}, isbn = {978-1-60558-002-9}, keywords = {mobile-computing, social-navigation}, location = {Cape Town, South Africa}, pages = {174--183}, posted-at = {2009-11-13 19:09:18}, priority = {4}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {CityFlocks: designing social navigation for urban mobile information systems}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1394445.1394464}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3142735 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3142735 N2 - CityFlocks is a mobile system enabling visitors and new residents in a city to tap into the knowledge and experiences of local residents, so as to gather information about their new environment. Its design specifically aims to lower existing barriers of access and facilitate social navigation in urban places. This paper presents a design case study of a mobile system prototype that offers an easy way for information seeking new residents or visitors to access tacit knowledge from local people about their new community. In various user tests we evaluate two general user interaction alternatives - direct and indirect social navigation - and analyse under what conditions which interaction method works better for people using a mobile device to socially navigate urban environments. The outcomes are relevant for the user interaction design of future mobile information systems that leverage off of a social navigation approach. CY - Cape Town, South Africa SN - 978-1-60558-002-9 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 183 TI - CityFlocks: designing social navigation for urban mobile information systems PB - ACM T2 - DIS '08: Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Designing interactive systems SP - 174 KW - mobile-computing KW - social-navigation AU - Bilandzic, Mark AU - Foth, Marcus AU - De Luca, Alexander PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1394445.1394464 ER -