User experience of mobile photo sharing in the cloud

  • Authors:
  • Elina Vartiainen;Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila

  • Affiliations:
  • Nokia Research Center, Finland;Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Cloud computing is a new paradigm for how applications and services are designed, implemented and accessed through Internet. In the cloud, the user can access services and his personal data real-time from any device. There are already services available in the market using cloud computing, such as email, enterprise planning software, and social media services. Still, research on cloud is in its early phase, especially when considering the user experience of mobile cloud services. In this paper, we introduce Image Exchange, a photo sharing Internet service that was designed from the cloud computing perspective. We evaluated Image Exchange through two user studies and the results presented in this paper describe important implications for cloud computing on mobile devices. Furthermore, we found special types of social interactions that emerged within the users of Image Exchange due to its cloud computing nature. The results show that the current design of Image Exchange provides a rather positive user experience, but it could be developed further to fully utilize the benefits of cloud computing.