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

Authors:
Antti Salovaara
Affiliations:
Helsinki University of Technology and University of Helsinki, TKK, Finland
Venue:
BCS-HCI '08 Proceedings of the 22nd British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: Culture, Creativity, Interaction - Volume 2
Year:
2008

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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.