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-Tactics and Concepts for Highly Mobile People

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6.3. Negotiating a connection<br />

<strong>People</strong> need to communicate when they are having a shared experience with a remote<br />

place. Words may not be the only way <strong>for</strong> communicating with a remote person, <strong>and</strong> that<br />

is why we have experimented with different concepts to meet this situation. The<br />

prototypes vary from feeling the remote person when co-­‐controlling a cursor on a display,<br />

to an awareness display that is used <strong>for</strong> negotiating a level of connection.<br />

6.3.1. Collective Interaction<br />

The idea of this concept is to create a tool<br />

<strong>for</strong> collaborative navigation when viewing<br />

pictures. This can either be with a co-­‐<br />

located or a remote person, when sharing<br />

an experience of browsing through digital<br />

material.<br />

Collective Interaction (CI) is the name of a<br />

prototype that we developed inspired by<br />

our work around HiT, as it concerned<br />

pictures from a vacation where the<br />

scenario of coming home <strong>and</strong> showing the pictures were not as well supported in HiT. The<br />

pictures taken on a trip are sometimes showed <strong>for</strong> others <strong>and</strong> we found this situation<br />

interesting <strong>for</strong> multiple reasons. We analyzed the situation through scenarios <strong>and</strong><br />

identified a problem area around the situation of showing pictures to others.<br />

On one h<strong>and</strong> there is the editing part that we identified as an area that could gain from<br />

some automation. Instead of having to spend time on editing a presentation about a trip<br />

we sought to make this step minimal so that it is possible to display right after the person<br />

had returned. That is why we worked with tags <strong>and</strong> developed an iPhone application,<br />

where it is possible to create tags <strong>for</strong> the pictures on the go. This makes it possible to<br />

arrange the show in different categories <strong>and</strong> view a slideshow immediately after having<br />

returned. The application was tested but not as automatic as we would like it to <strong>and</strong> we<br />

decided to focus more on the negotiation that is taking place when viewing the slideshow.<br />

CI is a tool <strong>for</strong> collaborate control of the viewing situation. The tool is used <strong>for</strong> either<br />

browsing on a map where the pictures are geographically attached or used <strong>for</strong> flipping<br />

through an image gallery, where it makes it possible to negotiate the time used on each<br />

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