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ItchyFeet: motivations for urban geospatial tagging

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NordiCHI '08: Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: building bridges

Pages 435 - 438

https://doi.org/10.1145/1463160.1463213

Published: 20 October 2008 Publication History

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Mobile social computing services are a new breed of application that require new design paradigms to establish themselves in our complex urban environment. This paper introduces 'ItchyFeet', a mobile social awareness service for GPS-enabled mobile handsets, which enables a user and their online social peers to collaboratively author a shared collection of geospatial tags. The application encourages users to place tags at socially important locations; such tags are used as indicators of a user's current and past context on their Facebook profile. We report on findings from a four week user trial of the application, which investigated the factors that motivated users to leave tags. Our results identify some of these factors and highlight the complexity of the dynamic relationship between users, their environment and mobile social services.

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ItchyFeet: motivations for urban geospatial tagging
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing design and evaluation methods

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NordiCHI '08: Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: building bridges

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DOI:10.1145/1463160

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Döring TSylvester ASchmidt AMalaka RRohs MSchmidt AAshbrook DRukzio E(2013)Exploring mobile representations of folksonomies to support the example context of a community gardening projectProceedings of the 15th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services10.1145/2493190.2494431(528-533)Online publication date: 27-Aug-2013
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