Social weight: designing to minimise the social consequences arising from technology use by the mobile professional

Authors:
Aaron Toney;Barrie Mulley;Bruce H. Thomas;Wayne Piekarski
Affiliations:
School of Computer and Information Science, Wearable Computer Laboratory, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes Boulevard, 5095, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia;School of Computer and Information Science, Wearable Computer Laboratory, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes Boulevard, 5095, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia;School of Computer and Information Science, Wearable Computer Laboratory, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes Boulevard, 5095, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia;School of Computer and Information Science, Wearable Computer Laboratory, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes Boulevard, 5095, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia
Venue:
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Year:
2003

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Abstract

This paper defines the concept of social weight as a design consideration and presents the e-SUIT, a social weight research platform incorporated covertly within a traditional business suit. The e-SUIT allows its user to strike a balance between a given technology's derived benefit and its social consequence. As the e-SUIT is designed for research within a business context, it is built upon commercially available enterprise software. This work is a first step towards subjecting the empirical social interactive phenomena of wearable technology to quantitative design analysis. Proof of concept testing shows access to commercially available enterprise applications with a distinct, user selectable, strata of social weight.