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Life through the lens: a qualitative investigation of human behaviour with an urban photography service
Simo Hosio, Richard Harper, Kenton O Hara, Jorge Goncalves, Vassilis Kostakos
Proceedings of the 2015 British HCI Conference on - British HCI '15 | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Published : 2015
Abstract
The proliferation of computation in our everyday environment enables new types of interaction and communication devices. Understanding the dialogue between users and such technology is crucial to the success of future urban computing deployments. We investigate human behaviour in public spaces using a public photography service deployed on interactive public displays in an urban city. Through the analysis of user-generated snapshots we show that the service was rapidly appropriated outside its intended purpose, resulting in use that differs substantially from those previously documented in photography literature. We reflect on the reasons why the service was appropriated in this way and expl..
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