Photos on the go: a mobile application case study

  • Authors:
  • Mor Naaman;Rahul Nair;Vlad Kaplun

  • Affiliations:
  • Yahoo! Inc., Berkeley, CA, USA;Yahoo! Inc., Berkeley, CA, USA;Yahoo! Inc., Berkeley, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.01

Visualization

Abstract

We designed and iterated on a photo browsing application for high-end mobile phones. The application, Zurfer, supports viewing of photos from the user, their contacts, and the general user population. Photos are organized using a channel metaphor, driven by multiple dimensions: social, spatial and topical. Zurfer was deployed to over 500 users; extensive user research was conducted with nine participants. The data from the deployment and the study exposes general themes of mobile application use, as well as requirements for mobile applications in the photos domain, mobile social applications, and entertainment-driven mobile applications.