Lurker demographics: counting the silent
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
GeoNotes: a location-based information system for public spaces
Designing information spaces
Physical Posters as Gateways to Context-Aware Services for Mobile Devices
WMCSA '04 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
Urban probes: encountering our emerging urban atmospheres
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
It's a jungle out there: practical considerations for evaluation in the city
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Applying user-centered design to mobile application development
Communications of the ACM - Designing for the mobile device
Social web applications in the city: a lightweight infrastructure for urban computing
Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Theme issue on social interaction and mundane technologies
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
φ2: exploring physical check-ins for location-based services
Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference adjunct papers on Ubiquitous computing - Adjunct
Physical hyperlinks for citizen interaction
Proceedings of the international conference on Multimedia
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Net Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World
Net Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World
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Although mobile phones are often used in public urban places to interact with one's geographically dispersed social circle, they can also facilitate interactions with people in the same public urban space. The PlaceTagz study investigates how physical artefacts in public urban places can be utilised and combined with mobile phone technologies to facilitate interactions. Printed on stickers, PlaceTagz are QR codes linking to a digital message board enabling collocated users to interact with each other over time resulting in a place-based digital memory. This exploratory project set out to investigate if and how PlaceTagz are used by urban dwellers in a real world deployment. We present findings from analysing content received through PlaceTagz and interview data from application users. QR codes, which do not contain any contextual information, piqued the curiosity of users wondering about the embedded link's destination and provoked comments in regards to people, place and technology.