Social Wormholes: Exploring Preferences and Opportunities for Distributed and Physically-Grounded Social Connections
Authors: 
Joanne Leong, 
Yuanyang Teng, 
Xingyu "Bruce" Liu, Hanseul Jun, Sven Kratz, Yu Jiang Tham, 
Andrés Monroy-Hernández, 
Brian A. Smith, Rajan VaishAuthors Info & Claims
Joanne Leong, Yuanyang Teng, Xingyu "Bruce" Liu, Hanseul Jun, Sven Kratz, Yu Jiang Tham, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Brian A. Smith, Rajan VaishAuthors Info & ClaimsArticle No.: 359, Pages 1 - 29
Abstract
Ubiquitous computing encapsulates the idea for technology to be interwoven into the fabric of everyday life. As computing blends into everyday physical artifacts, powerful opportunities open up for social connection. Prior connected media objects span a broad spectrum of design combinations. Such diversity suggests that people have varying needs and preferences for staying connected to one another. However, since these designs have largely been studied in isolation, we do not have a holistic understanding around how people would configure and behave within a ubiquitous social ecosystem of physically-grounded artifacts. In this paper, we create a technology probe called Social Wormholes, that lets people configure their own home ecosystem of connected artifacts. Through a field study with 24 participants, we report on patterns of behaviors that emerged naturally in the context of their daily lives and shine a light on how ubiquitous computing could be leveraged for social computing.
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# codebook.pdf This PDF file contains the codebook from our qualitative analysis of the exit interview transcripts. # pre_survey.pdf This PDF file contains the list of questions we asked in a pre-survey to each study participant. This was created and exported from Google Forms. # daily_survey.pdf This PDF file contains the list of questions we asked as part of a survey that each participant was asked to complete on a daily basis. This was created and exported from Google Forms. # exit_survey.pdf This PDF file contains the list of questions we asked as part of a final exit survey for each participant. This was created and exported from Google Forms. # interview_questions.pdf This PDF file contains a list of questions that we pre-prepared for the exit interview with participants regarding their experience with using Social Wormholes.
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