ContextCapture: Exploring the usage of context-based awareness cues in informal information sharing

Ville Antila; Jussi Polet; A.-H. Sarjanoja; P. Saarinen; Minna Isomursu

doi:10.1145/2181037.2181084

ContextCapture: Exploring the usage of context-based awareness cues in informal information sharing

Ville Antila, Jussi Polet, A.-H. Sarjanoja, P. Saarinen, Minna Isomursu

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Nokia Research Center

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the usage of context-based awareness cues in informal information sharing, especially in social networking services. We present an experimental mobile application, which allows users to add different descriptions of context information to their Facebook status updates. The meaningfulness and the usage of different context descriptions were evaluated in a two-week user trial. The results show that the most frequently used awareness cues in the test setting were location, surroundings, friends and activity. The results also indicate that user-defined semantic abstractions of context items (e.g. "home", "work") were often more informative and useful than more accurate indicators (e.g. the address or the name of the place). We also found out that using shared context from friends in vicinity (e.g. identifying the people around) needs careful design to overcome the extended privacy implications

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 15th International Academic MindTrek Conference
Subtitle of host publication	Envisioning Future Media Environments, MindTrek '11
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery ACM
Pages	269-275
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-0816-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2181037.2181084
Publication status	Published - 2011
MoE publication type	B3 Non-refereed article in conference proceedings
Event	15th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Envisioning Future Media Environments, MindTrek 2011 - Tampere, Finland Duration: 28 Sept 2011 → 30 Sept 2011

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Conference	15th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Envisioning Future Media Environments, MindTrek 2011
Abbreviated title	MindTrek 2011
Country/Territory	Finland
City	Tampere
Period	28/09/11 → 30/09/11

Keywords

Computer-mediated communication
context-awareness
mobile applications
sensing
social media

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Antila, V., Polet, J., Sarjanoja, A-H., Saarinen, P., & Isomursu, M. (2011). ContextCapture: Exploring the usage of context-based awareness cues in informal information sharing. In Proceedings of the 15th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Envisioning Future Media Environments, MindTrek '11 (pp. 269-275). Association for Computing Machinery ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2181037.2181084

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Antila, V, Polet, J, Sarjanoja, A-H, Saarinen, P & Isomursu, M 2011, ContextCapture: Exploring the usage of context-based awareness cues in informal information sharing. in Proceedings of the 15th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Envisioning Future Media Environments, MindTrek '11. Association for Computing Machinery ACM, pp. 269-275, 15th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Envisioning Future Media Environments, MindTrek 2011, Tampere, Finland, 28/09/11. https://doi.org/10.1145/2181037.2181084

ContextCapture : Exploring the usage of context-based awareness cues in informal information sharing. / Antila, Ville; Polet, Jussi; Sarjanoja, A.-H. et al.

Proceedings of the 15th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Envisioning Future Media Environments, MindTrek '11. Association for Computing Machinery ACM, 2011. p. 269-275.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific

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