Design at work: cooperative design of computer systems
Design at work: cooperative design of computer systems
Communications of the ACM - Special issue Participatory Design
The usability engineering lifecycle: a practitioner's handbook for user interface design
The usability engineering lifecycle: a practitioner's handbook for user interface design
Agile software development
Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies
Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies
Usability Engineering
Requirements Engineering: A Good Practice Guide
Requirements Engineering: A Good Practice Guide
Participatory Design: Principles and Practices
Participatory Design: Principles and Practices
User Centered System Design; New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction
User Centered System Design; New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction
User-Centered Requirements Engineering: Theory and Practice
User-Centered Requirements Engineering: Theory and Practice
Foundations of SMS Commerce Success: Lessons from SMS Messaging and Co-Opetition
HICSS '03 Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'03) - Track 3 - Volume 3
Information requirement elicitation in mobile commerce
Communications of the ACM - Mobile computing opportunities and challenges
Cyberprotest: Environmental Activism On-line
Cyberprotest: Environmental Activism On-line
Grassroots Initiated Networked Communities: A Study of Hybrid Physical/Virtual Communities
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 07
Participatory task modelling: users and developers modelling users' tasks and domains
TAMODIA '04 Proceedings of the 3rd annual conference on Task models and diagrams
Exploiting open functionality in SMS-capable cellular networks
Proceedings of the 12th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
SMS: Simplifying Mobile Services - for Users and Service Providers
AICT-ICIW '06 Proceedings of the Advanced Int'l Conference on Telecommunications and Int'l Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services
Georeferencing: The Geographic Associations of Information (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing)
System Requirements Analysis
Geographic information retrieval in a mobile environment: evaluating the needs of mobile individuals
Journal of Information Science
Participative Web And User-Created Content: Web 2.0 Wikis and Social Networking
Participative Web And User-Created Content: Web 2.0 Wikis and Social Networking
The mobile commerce value chain: analysis and future developments
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Mapping the landscape of sustainable HCI
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Air-Writing: a platform for scalable, privacy-preserving, spatial group messaging
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services
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Information and communication technology are potentially significant tools in strengthening local initiatives towards sustainability. The Science and Technology (S&T) Framework for Sustainable Development provides a context for such development. This article describes a study aimed at examining how the existing mobile technologies of standard messaging service and wireless application protocol can be used to support the activities of an environmental grassroots organisation-London 21 Sustainability Network (henceforth London 21). Following the S&T Framework, it is clear that to realise the potential of these technologies a new mobile service should be effectively embedded into the structure and activity of the network. Using a participatory research approach, an extensive user requirements study with 273 participants was carried out to ensure that the development of the mobile service for London 21 fulfils the purposes, goals and expectations of the organisation. This article describes a Mobile Spatial Messaging Service, called EcoTEXT, which was developed and deployed for London 21. This service allows individuals to receive geographically targeted, action-orientated, time-relevant information via text messages on their mobile phones. The content of the service is information about upcoming local environmental events and activities, which match the interest of the user, when these events occur in close spatial proximity to where that user resides. This type of service represents a powerful new dimension for the provision of data-driven services in comparison to current text-based services. Location is giving the service additional meaning and value. The introduction of such a service into the organisation's communication toolkit offers the potential to create, supplement and strengthen social ties and interactions within the community.