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Selfie cafe: socialization in public spaces

Authors:

Andre O. Bueno,

Junia C. Anacleto,

Vinicius Ferreira,

Carolina Souza,

Daniel ConsiglieriAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '15: Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Pages 163 - 168

https://doi.org/10.1145/2695664.2695824

Published: 13 April 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Once Online Social Networks became popular in the last decade, people tend to spend a fair amount of time in the virtual world. As a consequence, real encounters, especially with non-related people tend to not be encouraged or even exciting anymore. Aware that mobile devices become more popular and powerful considering pervasiveness and ubiquitousness, we strategically decided to use technology in order to support and promote people gathering in public spaces. In this paper, we present Selfie Cafe, an Urban Computing application for leveraging socialization. The application was deployed in the wild to see how people would react to it in specific places where socialization would be expected but was not happening. Results of the Selfie Cafe installation show that it helped setting a more playful mood in the place, an increase in the time spent by people in there as well as supporting interactions among locals, acquaintances and strangers.

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Index Terms

Selfie cafe: socialization in public spaces
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Web-based interaction
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
  2. Information storage systems

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SAC '15: Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

April 2015

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DOI:10.1145/2695664

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Thompson EPotts DHardy JPorter BHouben S(2021)AmbiDots: An Ambient Interface to Mediate Casual Social Settings through Peripheral InteractionProceedings of the 33rd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/3520495.3520504(99-110)Online publication date: 30-Nov-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3520495.3520504
Bueno AKaye JDruin ALampe CMorris DHourcade J(2016)From Smart Cities to Social CitiesProceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2851581.2859020(198-202)Online publication date: 7-May-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2851581.2859020

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