TY - GEN
T1 - Reducing the stress of coordination
T2 - 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015
AU - Bentley, Frank R.
AU - Chen, Ying-Yu
AU - Holz, Christian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright 2015 ACM.
PY - 2015/4/18
Y1 - 2015/4/18
N2 - We explore the everyday use of a new abstraction for mobile location-sharing. By sharing the travel time between contacts calculated for walking, transit, and driving, we have enabled users to more easily coordinate meeting up and planning family obligations. Specifically, our participants reported that the information helped to lower the stress of these activities and provided reassurance of the arrival times of their close friends and family. In this paper, we describe our system, motivate its design, and explore results from a 20-user, 21-day field trial showing the usefulness of the abstraction as well as attitudes towards privacy when sharing travel times with close friends or family.
AB - We explore the everyday use of a new abstraction for mobile location-sharing. By sharing the travel time between contacts calculated for walking, transit, and driving, we have enabled users to more easily coordinate meeting up and planning family obligations. Specifically, our participants reported that the information helped to lower the stress of these activities and provided reassurance of the arrival times of their close friends and family. In this paper, we describe our system, motivate its design, and explore results from a 20-user, 21-day field trial showing the usefulness of the abstraction as well as attitudes towards privacy when sharing travel times with close friends or family.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84951203551&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2702123.2702208
DO - 10.1145/2702123.2702208
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84951203551
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 967
EP - 970
BT - CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 18 April 2015 through 23 April 2015
ER -