Meme tags and community mirrors: moving from conferences to collaboration
CSCW '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Overcoming the Lack of Screen Space on Mobile Computers
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Motorcycling and social interaction: design for the enjoyment of brief traffic encounters
GROUP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
FolkMusic: A Mobile Peer-to-Peer Entertainment System
HICSS '04 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04) - Track 9 - Volume 9
The familiar stranger: anxiety, comfort, and play in public places
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Three applications for mobile epidemic algorithms
Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices & services
Procedings of the Second Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Design
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We examine mobile face-to-face meeting support systems applied to public places and analyse how the temporality of meetings influence the interaction between anonymous participants. Here we uncover a duration paradox. Prolonged meetings between unacquainte people may seem suitable for support systems, since they allow for significant human-computer interaction. At the same time, prolonged meetings can lead to embarrassing consequences, and participants may lose their anonymity. Brief meetings give little opportunity for interacting with systems. But the participants are more prone to provide personal information since the risk of loosing their anonymity is less acute.