Making a Home for Social Media

Clint Heyer; Irina Shklovski; Nanna Gorm Jensen

doi:10.1145/2493432.2493521

Making a Home for Social Media

Clint Heyer, Irina Shklovski, Nanna Gorm Jensen

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Abstract

In this paper we report on the design and implementation of an initial prototype to explore how to better situate in the home social media content individually generated by family members. We considered whether existing infrastructure and practices of social media might be leveraged to offer new kinds of shared family experiences. We found that families perceived the system to be “cosy” and intimate, especially in contrast to Facebook, and as a result ‘shared to care’. While aspects of the design had a strong role to play in faciliating this perception, participants enacted their own boundaries of sharing and disclosure based on pre-existing practices and attitudes toward social technologies. The study demonstrated that there are productive design opportunities in home systems that can leverage content via a broad range of social media applications.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	UbiComp '13 Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing
Number of pages	4
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	8 Sept 2013
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-1770-2
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-1770-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2493432.2493521
Publication status	Published - 8 Sept 2013
Event	The 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing - Zurich, Switzerland Duration: 8 Sept 2013 → 12 Sept 2013 http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2013/

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Conference	The 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
Country/Territory	Switzerland
City	Zurich
Period	08/09/2013 → 12/09/2013
Internet address	http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2013/

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human factors

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Heyer, C, Shklovski, I & Gorm Jensen, N 2013, Making a Home for Social Media. in UbiComp '13 Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing. Association for Computing Machinery, The 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Zurich, Switzerland, 08/09/2013. https://doi.org/10.1145/2493432.2493521

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Making a Home for Social Media

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