Supporting Social Presence through Lightweight Photo Sharing On and Off the Desktop

1. Supporting Social Presence through Lightweight Photo Sharing On and Off the Desktop By Scott Counts, Microsoft Research, and Eric Fellheimer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Presented by Tim Burke

2. The Paper • Background • Introducing Flipper • Experimental Field Study • Results • Criticisms • Conclusions

3. Background • Published at ACM SIGCHI in 2004 • Pre-iPhone, pre-Android • Most popular phones in 2004: • Nokia 2600 series (135M sold) • No camera • Motorola RAZR V3 (130M sold) • Camera phone • Cost > $200 at launch in US

4. Background • Snapshot: Versions of Life by Chalfen, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1987. • Requirements for Photowareby Frohlick, et al., Proc. of CSCW 2002. • Pix Pals by Kiser, Interactions, ACM Press 1999. • Joking, storytelling, artsharing, expressing affection: A field trial of how children and their social network communicate with digital images in leisure time by Makela, et al., Proc. CHI 2000, CHI Letters.

5. Introducing Flipper • Simple application with a minimal feature set • Group-centric Photo Sharing System • Image Annotation • Data Persistence (early “cloud” application) • Desktop/Mobile integration • (Near) Automated Sharing

6. Introducing Flipper • Mobile Application • Early Smartphone platform • Windows Mobile 2003 • Annotation Input • Automated Sharing by syncing a specific camera folder on device

7. Introducing Flipper • Desktop Application • Annotation Input • Drag and Drop image sharing to contact list

8. Introducing Flipper • Common Back-end • Used by both desktop and mobile versions • Web-based Active Server Page (ASP) Middleware • SQL Database • XML Data Markup • Multithreaded Application • Attention is paid to backing service responsiveness as a component of the overall User Experience

9. Experimental Field Study • Users placed into groups of four • Close friends • Family • Coworkers • Aged 19 to 51 • Had access to digital camera

10. Experimental Field Study • Multi-week Trials • One week using user’s traditional sharing methods (such as email) • One week using Flipper application on desktop and/or mobile

11. Hypothesis • Predictions: • More sharing of photos using Flipper as compared to Multimedia Messaging (MMS) and email • Users feel enhanced subjective connectedness with their social graph • Users find photo sharing easier using the application

12. Results • Sharing Increased using Flipper

13. Results • Sharing Greater via Mobile • Avg. Mobile user shared 11.64 photos • Avg. Desktop user shared 3.2 photos • Annotation / Commenting • Vast majority of commenting entered via desktop • Avg. Mobile user commented on 1.24 photos • Avg. Desktop user commented on 2.69 photos

14. Results • Deleted Photos • 22% of photos added via desktop app deleted • 0% of photos added via mobile app deleted • Social Graph • Users reported feeling greater connection with their social graph when using Flipper • Ease • Users reported improved ease of sharing photos when using Flipper

15. Criticisms • Small Sample • Data are analyzed by group, not individual • Reduces statistical significance of results by reducing sample population size • Group vs. Individual comparison may have provided additional insight

16. Conclusions • All Hypotheses Confirmed • Increased Sharing • Greater Social Connectedness • Easier Photo Sharing

17. Questions?

18. Mobile HCI Germaine Irwin February 13, 2013

19. Paper Information • Mobile connections: an exploration of the place of mobile phones in friendship relations • Eileen Green & Carrie Singleton • Teeside University • The Sociological Review: 2009

20. Background • Empirical study within social theory • Micro-social world • Reconfigured friendships • Project of self, individualism • Gendered facilitation

21. Methodology • Pilot study • 4 months • 47 participants • Age range: 14-25 • 29 females • 18 males

22. Findings • Gendered roles: • Masculine cultures of connectivity • Female friendship spaces • ‘Appropriate’ connections • Mobile mums • Conclusions • Modes of friendship • Relationship building • Connections

23. Linah Algadhi IS 698 Mobile HCI Dr.Saun Kane Mobile Social Software for Developing Regions By Beth E. Kolko Emma J. Rose Erica Johnson

24. Research Team Prof Beth Kolko • Faculty member in the Department of Technical communications at the UW • Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University

25. Introduction Central Asia Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanUzbekistan

26. Why? • Multi ethnic & Multi lingual • Typical emerging market environment • Slow diffusion pasterns for ICTs • Productive research site

27. Methodology • Surveys • Interviews • Ethnographic observation • Public Internet Access Sites

28. Internet Versus Mobile

29. Patterns of Online activity

31. Trust in institutions/ family and friens

33. Cultural Meaning and Uses of Mobile • People depend on SMS and phone calls wand carefully measures the costs. • Use SMS rather than the WAP due to the high cost. • Mobiles had a strong impact during the kyrgyz revolution on 2005.

34. Technology and Everyday Life • Internet access through public sites some times not licensed. • Very slow dialup connections and some times with no internet!

35. Internet Access outside the Home

36. Problems associated with public internet access • The need to visit the internet cafe • The lack of: • Privacy – trust - Technology & speed • Gender issue • High prices Made face to face network the best way to communicate → Mobile phones

37. Communication between people is another term of Information seeking. • Usually between the family members and friends as Trusted sources not as a habit. • SMS texting is the best information exchange method within a social network.

38. Its obvious that the WAP services were applied to the area but people went back to the SMS for communication. • MoSoSo was the best app that can provide the community with the social connection they need.