Designing Mobile Experiences for Collocated Interaction

Abstract

Many of our everyday social interactions involve mobile devices. Yet, these tend to only provide good support for distributed social interactions. Although much HCI and CSCW research has explored how we might support collocated, face-to-face situations using mobile devices, much of this work exists as isolated exemplars of technical systems or interaction designs. This paper draws on a range of such exemplars to develop a practical design framework intended for guiding the design of new mobile experiences for collocated interaction as well as analysing existing ones. Our framework provides four relational perspectives for designing the complex interplay between: the social situation in which it takes place; the technology used and the mechanics inscribed; the physical environment; and the temporal elements of design. Moreover, each perspective features some core properties, which are highly relevant when designing these systems. As part of presenting the framework we also explain the process of its construction along with practical advice on how to read and apply it.

A Survey of the Trajectories Conceptual Framework

“…• Lundgren et al [72] see trajectories as an inspiration for their "mobile collocated interaction framework", and import concepts such as synchronization and pacing.…”

“…It is often seen as a framework that "describes", "characterizes" or "expresses" experiences [36,39,46,47,52,71,89] or that helps understand them [60,66]. It's also seen as directed at designers and artists, with a more or less prescriptive phrasing ("urging" [53] or "encouraging" [34] them or simply suggesting their use to "create" [72] or "frame" [85] experiences).…”

Mobile collocated interactions with wearables: past, present, and future

“…The second workshop on "Mobile Collocated Interactions: From Smartphones to Wearables" [32] at CHI 2015 2 focused on technology and prototyping. After individual presentations and group discussions, relevant topics were identified for a 'hands on' session where we [34] was introduced to explore ideas in small groups around embodied interactions using different materials, conductive fabrics, and strappings 5 to provoke thought. In a fourth workshop on "Proxemic Mobile Collocated Interactions" [35] at CHI 2016, 6 the ideas of proxemics were adopted for mobile collocated interactions, leading to in-depth discussion in two large groups on proxemics from an evaluation and technological standpoint.…”

Collocated Interaction: New Challenges in 'Same Time, Same Place' Research

“…This will include the introduction of the collocated interaction design framework [16] to help facilitate ideation, while allowing participants to form novel concepts based on the existing challenges within the field identified in the previous session.…”