Supporting Social Interaction with Smart Phones

  • Authors:
  • Russell Beale

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Birmingham

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Pervasive Computing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The smart phone offers communication, connectivity, content consumption, and content creativity.This powerful device is both personal, containing private information, and public, providing a digital link to the rest of the world. The author has designed, built, and evaluated several systems thatsupport social interaction, enhancing the relationships and communication between individuals andgroups. He illustrates how the smart phoneýs capabilities can be manipulated to augment traditionalinteractions and develop new interactions. Pervasive systems become powerful when they improve people'slives; the smart phone's support of social interactions can help achieve this goal.