Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication
Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication
Re-place-ing space: the roles of place and space in collaborative systems
CSCW '96 Proceedings of the 1996 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Design for network communities
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systems
The affordances of media spaces for collaboration
CSCW '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Local use and sharing of mobile phones
Wireless world
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
Perpetual contact: mobile communication, private talk, public performance
Perpetual contact: mobile communication, private talk, public performance
Designing information spaces: the social navigation approach
Designing information spaces: the social navigation approach
The familiar stranger: anxiety, comfort, and play in public places
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The Cybercities Reader
Deploying and evaluating a location-aware system
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective (Information Revolution & Global Politics)
Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective (Information Revolution & Global Politics)
Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life
Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life
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Our everyday lives are characterised by encounters, some are fleeting and ephemeral and others are more enduring and meaningful exchanges. Shared encounters are the glue of social networks and have a socializing effect in terms of mutual understanding, empathy, respect and thus tolerance towards others. The quality and characteristics of such encounters are affected by the setting, or situation in which they occur. In a world shaped by communication technologies, non-place-based networks often coexist alongside to the traditional local face-to-face social networks. As these multiple and distinct on and off-line communities tend to carry out their activities in more and more distinct and sophisticated spaces, a lack of coherency and fragmentation emerges in the sense of a shared space of community. Open public space with its streets, parks and squares plays an important role in providing space for shared encounters among and between these coexisting networks. Mobile and ubiquitous technologies enable social encounters located in public space, albeit not confined to fixed settings, whilst also offering sharing of experiences from non-place based networks. We will look at how to create or support the conditions for meaningful and persisting shared encounters. In particular we propose to explore how technologies can be appropriated for shared interactions that can occur spontaneously and playfully and in doing so re-inhabit and connect place-based social networks.