2009-2011

Abstract

This study will produce research findings to inform design and development of innovative mobile services aiming to easily create social networks in different public urban settings. The main goal of this research is to provide applications and deliver guidelines to enhance the user experience of different public urban places during everyday idle time. This goal will be achieved through personalised services and content delivered via Information and Communication Technology (ICT) devices, which consider and behave according to the user’s past, current, and future context. The context data will be used to enhance and stimulate interaction with people who are collocated in the same public place. An ethnographic approach to study city dwellers in public urban places and a user-centred design approach to create applications will be employed. Software applications will be evaluated to gather data for subsequent software developments, deployed in different public urban places.

Team

• Jan Seeburger (PhD Candidate)
• Assoc. Prof. Marcus Foth (Principal Supervisor)
• Dr Dian Tjondronegoro (Associate Supervisor)

Partners

• Smart Services CRC

Publications

Seeburger, Jan and Schroeter, Ronald (2009) Disposable maps : ad hoc location sharing. In: OZCHI 2009 : 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA), 23-27 November 2009, Melbourne. (In Press) (eprints >)