Sharing the cloudlet: Impression management and designing for colocated mobile sharing

Benz, Pierre and Blake, Edwin (2015) Sharing the cloudlet: Impression management and designing for colocated mobile sharing, Information Technologies & International Development, 11, 1-16, USC Annenberg Press.

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Abstract

This article explores how designing for impression management affects the design of cloudlet and other mobile colocated sharing services. We demonstrate how colocated concepts and experimentation led to the conceptualization and design of a sharing interface that provides users with control over their shared content. We uncover usage behaviors and privacy concerns through the use of a technology probe and use those discoveries to develop a prototype designed with the principles of impression management to give sharers control over their content and identity. Our designs and results indicate users of cloudlets and other colocated sharing systems require visual control and privacy over shared content.

Item Type: Journal article (paginated)
Uncontrolled Keywords: ICT4D, mobile phone, technology probe
Subjects: Information systems
Social and professional topics
Computer systems organization > Architectures > Distributed architectures
Alternate Locations: http://itidjournal.org/index.php/itid/article/view/1439
Date Deposited: 11 Mar 2016
Last Modified: 10 Oct 2019 15:32
URI: http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/1072

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