Ethnographic User Study and Concept Design for Chinese Migrant Workers' Social Networks

Authors:
Jie Wang;Wei Wang;Ying Liu;Xia Wang;Qiuhong Chen
Affiliations:
Nokia Research Center, Beijing, China;Nokia Research Center, Beijing, China;Nokia Research Center, Beijing, China;Nokia Research Center, Beijing, China;Department of Sociology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Venue:
OCSC '09 Proceedings of the 3d International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Online social networking services are hot in the recent years, but most of theses services in China aimed at the college students and business people, ignoring that Chinese migrant workers could be one of the biggest potential user groups of mobile social networking services in the future. This paper presents an ethnographic user study on Chinese rural-urban migrant workers' social networks in daily life and proposes a new mobile social networking service concept design for helping them to improve their social networks in daily life.