Struggling with gift-giving obligations: when mobile messages are too laborious to reciprocate Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:4860304, abstract = {Messaging with new media should be fun, but sometimes participating in conversations can become a burden for users due to the effort required. In this paper, examples of such situations are presented from a study on a multimedia program for mobile phones that can be used to create MMS-based comic strips. The examples show how the social system of gift-giving obligations, originally presented by anthropologist Marcel Mauss, still has a role in everyday social interaction of today. The identified problems give rise to a number of design implications to alleviate problems in gift-giving.}, address = {Swinton, UK, UK}, author = {Salovaara, Antti}, booktitle = {BCS-HCI '08: Proceedings of the 22nd British CHI Group Annual Conference on HCI 2008}, citeulike-article-id = {4860304}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1531826.1531847}, isbn = {978-1-906124-06-9}, keywords = {messaging, mobile, multimedia}, location = {Liverpool, United Kingdom}, pages = {83--86}, posted-at = {2009-06-15 15:05:48}, priority = {0}, publisher = {British Computer Society}, title = {Struggling with gift-giving obligations: when mobile messages are too laborious to reciprocate}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1531826.1531847}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:4860304 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4860304 N2 - Messaging with new media should be fun, but sometimes participating in conversations can become a burden for users due to the effort required. In this paper, examples of such situations are presented from a study on a multimedia program for mobile phones that can be used to create MMS-based comic strips. The examples show how the social system of gift-giving obligations, originally presented by anthropologist Marcel Mauss, still has a role in everyday social interaction of today. The identified problems give rise to a number of design implications to alleviate problems in gift-giving. CY - Liverpool, United Kingdom SN - 978-1-906124-06-9 AD - Swinton, UK, UK EP - 86 TI - Struggling with gift-giving obligations: when mobile messages are too laborious to reciprocate PB - British Computer Society T2 - BCS-HCI '08: Proceedings of the 22nd British CHI Group Annual Conference on HCI 2008 SP - 83 KW - messaging KW - mobile KW - multimedia AU - Salovaara, Antti PY - 2008/// UR - http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1531826.1531847 ER -