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Mobile phone talk in context

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Mattias Esbjörnsson,

Alexandra WeilenmannAuthors Info & Claims

CONTEXT'05: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Modeling and Using Context

Pages 140 - 154

https://doi.org/10.1007/11508373_11

Published: 05 July 2005 Publication History

Abstract

In light of recent attempts to design context-aware mobile phones, this paper contributes by providing findings from a study of mobile phone talk in context. We argue the benefits of investigating empirically the ways in which a place is interactionally constituted as appropriate, or not, for a mobile phone conversation. Based on a study of naturally occurring mobile phone talk, we show how people handle calls in potentially difficult situations. Availability is negotiated, and it is not always agreed on whether a situation is appropriate. These findings pose challenges to the design of context-aware telephony.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1620545.1620547
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CONTEXT'05: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Modeling and Using Context

July 2005

569 pages

ISBN:354026924X

Editors:
Anind Dey
Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
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Boicho Kokinov
Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science, New Bulgarian University, 21 Montevideo Street, Sofia, PA, Bulgaria
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David Leake
Computer Science Department, Indiana University, 21 Montevideo Street, Bloomington, IN
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Roy Turner
Department of Computer Science, University of Maine, 21 Montevideo Street, Orono, Maine

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Published: 05 July 2005

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Mancini CThomas KRogers YPrice BJedrzejczyk LBandara AJoinson ANuseibeh BHelal SGellersen HConsolvo S(2009)From spaces to placesProceedings of the 11th international conference on Ubiquitous computing10.1145/1620545.1620547(1-10)Online publication date: 30-Sep-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1620545.1620547
Troshynski ELee CDourish PCzerwinski MLund ATan D(2008)Accountabilities of presenceProceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/1357054.1357133(487-496)Online publication date: 6-Apr-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1357054.1357133
Sadler KRobertson TKan MNieminen MRöykkee M(2006)"It's always there, it's always on"Proceedings of the 8th conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services10.1145/1152215.1152226(49-52)Online publication date: 12-Sep-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1152215.1152226

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