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Collectivity: Supporting collective action and experiencing | Research track at UIx

We investigate how computing and media support group interactions beyond the individual. Focusing on the group-level means advancing the understanding of social computing detailed to the unit of analysis of groups.´The result is an understanding social cognition and experience and its mediation, phenomena around how members think about and experience sociality. Topics include

• Techniques, platforms, and formats for collective achievements.
• Common spaces. Making actions visible to selected others.
• Awareness cues. Real-time sensor information to support companionship, relatedness, expression, and coordination.
• Collocated and mediated interactions. .

Example: MapLens a mobile AR map provides commond ground in collocated interaction

MapLens: using markerless tracking dynamic information is overlayed on a physical map (Morrison et al. 2009).	MapLens was used in a pervasive game and compared to a fully digital solution. MapLens supports collaboration facilitating common ground and place making (Morrison et al. 2009)

Example: CoMedia integrates in a mobile application awareness cues in collective media stories

Stories created by a group of visitors of a music festival (Jacucci et al. 2007)	Contributions of pictures, text, videos an sounds are enriched by awareness cues	Cues about digital an physical status of members of a story

See a video ( mov or mp4) of CoMedia a Mobile Group Media application for collective story creation and mobile awareness

Contact

Send email to: uix-info (at) hiit.fi

Key publications

Morrison, A. Oulasvirta A., Peltonen, P., Lemmelä S., Jacucci, G., Reitmayr, G., Näsänen, J., Juustila, A., (2009). Like Bees Around the Hive: A Comparative Study of a Mobile Augmented Reality Map. A full paper accepted to CHI 2009, ACM Press.

Oulasvirta, A., Petit, R., Raento, M., & Tiitta, S. (2007). Interpreting and acting on mobile awareness cues. Human-Computer Interaction, 22 (1&2), 97-135.

Giulio Jacucci, Antti Oulasvirta, Antti Salovaara (2007). Active construction of experience through mobile media: a field study with implications for recording and sharing Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 11(4), 215-234. Special Issue on Memory and Sharing of Experiences.

Jacucci, G., Oulasvirta, A., Ilmonen, T., Evans, J., Salovaara, A., (2007) CoMedia: Mobile Group Media for Active Spectatorship. CHI2007, 28 April - 3 May, 2007 San Jose, USA, ACM Press.

Salovaara, A., Jacucci, G., Oulasvirta, A., Kanerva, P., Kurvinen, E., Tiitta, S., (2006) Collective creation and sense-making of mobile media, Proceedings of the CHI2006 SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems, Montréal, Québec, Canada. ACM Press, Pp: 1211 - 1220.