Smartphone interactions change for different intimacy contexts

Mattia Gustarini, Katarzyna Wac

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Abstract

Emerging mobile applications on a growing scale adapt their functionalities and the way these are provided, leveraging the user’s contextual information, without the need of explicit settings setup from the users side. However, this contextual information, e.g., location and other environmental information, may not fully represent the users’ context. There are other contextual features related to the user’s social context that may be considered. In this paper we introduce an example of such contextual information - the intimacy context information, and we investigate if smartphone users change the way they interact with their smartphones depending on their intimacy state We performed a 4 weeks 20-users study, with participants using their own smartphones in daily life environments, and being sampled for their intimacy perception. Our results show how intimacy context changes and relate to the smartphone usage. Therefore our research contributes by introducing new context information - intimacy, which can be leveraged by developers to create mobile applications automatically adapting to provide different services, functionalities and content depending on the intimacy level of the situation the user is in.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelMobile computing, applications, and services : 5th International Conference, MobiCASE 2013, Paris, France, November 7-8, 2013, Revised Selected Papers
RedaktørerGérard Memmi, Ulf Blanke
Antal sider18
Vol/bind130
ForlagSpringer
Publikationsdato2014
Sider72-89
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2014
Udgivet eksterntJa
NavnLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
Vol/bind130
ISSN1867-8211

Emneord

  • context-awareness
  • self-application adaptation
  • mobile application
  • interaction design
  • social context

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