Augmenting the city: the design of a context-aware mobile web site

Authors:
Jesper Kjeldskov;Jeni Paay
Affiliations:
Aalborg University, Aalborg East, Denmark;The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Venue:
DUX '05 Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Designing for User eXperience
Year:
2005

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Abstract

We present the design of "Just-for-Us" - a context-aware web site for mobile devices augmenting the social experience of the city. Informing design, field studies of social groups' situated social interactions were carried out in a new civic space in Melbourne, Australia followed by paper prototyping and implementation of a functional mobile web site. The produced solution augments the city through web-based access to a digital layer of information about people, places and activities adapted to users' physical and social context and their history of social interactions in the city. The system was evaluated in lab and field, validating the fundamental idea but also identifying a number of shortcomings.