DroPicks - A tool for collaborative content sharing exploiting everyday artefacts

Simo Hosio*, Fahim Kawsar, Jukka Riekki, Tatsuo Nakajima

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Abstract

Emergence of social web services like YouTube[1], Flickr[2] etc. is constantly transforming the way we share our lifestyles with family, friends and colleagues. The significance of specific contents can be enhanced if shared with the right person, at right location and time. This paper explores this contextual social content sharing mechanism and presents DroPicks that utilizes augmented everyday artefacts as containers for digital information. Many everyday artefacts are immobile, which implicitly restricts contents stored to a location. Such indirect, contextual sharing has advantages over direct communication mechanisms (E-mail, SMS, IM...) as it provides the content in correct context, seeking minimal attention. Considering the lightness of social contents, we argue that our approach is appropriate, as it does not seek immediate attention, but rather offers the content in the background.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationUbiquitous Computing Systems - 4th International Symposium, UCS 2007, Proceedings
Pages258-265
Number of pages8
Publication statusPublished - 2007 Dec 1
Event4th International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing Systems, UCS 2007 - Tokyo, Japan
Duration: 2007 Nov 252007 Nov 28

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4836 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference4th International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing Systems, UCS 2007
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityTokyo
Period07/11/2507/11/28

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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