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Motivation

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"With the device always present, there is opportunity for multiple interactions within a day or week." - Savio

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Motivation

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  • Mobile 24/7

  • Change the way people perceive reality and how they get inspired through everyday life

  • Generative research
  • Five interviews with potential users

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Our application

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  • 30 minutes to take a picture of a specific topic at a random moment

  • See how other users interpreted the topic

  • Wow (like) your favorite photos

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Related Work

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Research on mobile photo sharing

  • How people share (mGroup project, 2006)

  • How to improve the sharing process (Zurfer project, 2008)

  • Cloud based photo sharing (Image Exchange, 2010)

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Interaction Design

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Intended user

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Notification

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Registered user Marc receives

a notification of the app

Now is the moment

Topic: architecture

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Take picture

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He clicks on the notification�

The app opens in camera mode

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Home

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…before it switches to the home screen

Marc sees his picture being added to topic 'architecture'

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Viewing picture

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He sees an interesting picture in topic 'architecture' and taps it

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Viewing details

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Bringing up the detail panel reveals other clickable topics

But first he decides to WOW this picture

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Added!

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WOW-mosaïc

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After tapping the button Marc is being directed to his WOW-mosaïc

Swiping left and right brings him to other mosaïcs: 'home', 'Marc's topic of the moment' and 'recently added'

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Search

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Here Marc can search for topics, people and places

His search terms are automatically completed to terms that are available in the app

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System Design

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Overview

upload pictures to server

- PHP

- MySQL

- Imagemagick

- RESTful + JSON

- Multiple Android versions (2.2+)

- Optimized Android 4 Interface

- above 4000 LOC

provides pictures & all user data

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System Design

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Database

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Evaluation

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  • Field trial of the concept
    • 20 users in WhatsApp group with the topics

architecture, blue and cold

  • What has been tested
    • Is the notification idea working?
    • Are people able to take a picture and upload it in half an hour?
    • How do people interpreted the topic?

"Noooo!!!!! Really!??? Too bad! �I was eager for the next assignment!!!!"

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Topic: blue

Evaluation

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Conclusion / Future Work

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Now is the moment encourages users to be inspired and stimulates creativity through everyday life

It is strongly recommended that when the actual application will implemented, it needs to be evaluated as part of our daily lives

Future research

  • Do people get inspired and become more creative?
  • Inappropriate pictures
  • Scalability

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References

selection

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Ahern, S., Davis, M., Eckles, D., King, S., Naaman, M., Nair, R., ... & Yang, J. (2006, September). Zonetag: Designing context-aware mobile media capture to increase participation. In Workshop on Pervasive Image Capture and Sharing (PICS 2006), Ubicomp 2006.

Döring, N., & Gundolf, A. (2005). Your life in snapshots. Mobile weblogs (Moblogs). Thumb culture. The meaning of mobile phones for society, 211-224.

Jacucci, G., Oulasvirta, A., and Salovaara, A. 2006. Active construction of experience through mobile media: a field study with implications for recording and sharing. Personal Ubiquitous Computing, 11: 215-234.

Naaman, M., Nair, R., Kaplun, V. 2008. Photos on the Go: A Mobile Application Case Study. In Proceedings of CHI 2008.

Savio, N., & Braiterman, J. (2007). Design sketch: The context of mobile interaction. Proceedings of MobileHCI 2007, 284-286.

Vartiainen E., & Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. 2010. User experience of mobile photo sharing in the cloud. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 , 1-10

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Picture taken!

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He takes the picture.

It will stay for 3 seconds…

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Q&A

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