Ebook: Shared encounters

Shared encounters / Katharine S. Willis, George Roussos, Konstantinos Chorianopoulos, and Mirjam Struppek -- Sharing experience. Introduction : sharing experience / Barry Brown -- Ubiquitous media for collocated interaction / Giulio Jacucci, Peter Peltonen, Ann Morrison, Antti Salovaara, Esko Kurvinen, and Antti Oulasvirta -- History-enriched spaces for shared encounters / Shin'ichi Konomi, Kaoru Sezaki, and Masaru Kitsuregawa -- Conceptualizing, designing, and investigating locative media use in urban space / Katerina Diamantaki, Charalampos Rizopoulos, Dimitris Charitos, and Nikos Kaimakamis -- Shared-screen interaction : engaging groups in map-mediated nonverbal communication / Konstantinos Chorianopoulos and Tim Rieniets -- Playful encounters. Introduction : playful encounters / George Roussos -- Shared encounters in a location-aware and proximity-aware mobile community : the Mogi case / Christian Licoppe and Yoriko Inada -- Bluetooth as a playful public art interface / Maria N. Stukoff -- A theoretical construct of serious play and the design of a tangible social interface / Pamela Jennings -- Spatial settings. Introduction : spatial settings / Malcolm McCullough -- Exploring digital encounters in the public arena / Ava Fatah gen. Schieck, Vassilis Kostakos, and Alan Penn -- Mis(sed)information in public space / Omar Khan -- Encounters and content sharing in an urban village : reading texts through an archaeological lens / Nicole Garcia, Marcus Foth, and Greg Hearn -- Social glue. Introduction : social glue / Elisabeth F. Churchill -- Making glue : participation in everyday computing / Karen Martin -- Sharing personal reflections on health locally / Andrea Grimes -- Moblogs, sharing situations, and lived life / Connor Graham, Mark Rouncefield, and Christine Satchell -- Sharing knowledge about places as community building / Katharine S. Willis, Kenton O'Hara, Thierry Giles, and Mike Marianek.;Every day we share encounters with others as we inhabit the space around us. In offering insights and knowledge on this increasingly important topic, this book introduces a range of empirical and theoretical approaches to the study of shared encounters. It highlights the multifaceted nature of collective experience and provides a deeper understanding of the nature and value of shared encounters in everyday life. Divided into four sections, each section comprises a set of chapters on a different topic and is introduced by a key author in the field who provides an overview of the content. The book itself is introduced by Paul Dourish, who sets the theme of shared encounters in the context of technological and social change over the last fifteen years. The four sections that follow consider the characteristics of shared encounters and describe how they can be supported in different settings: the first section, introduced by Barry Brown, looks at shared experiences. George Roussos, in the second section, presents playful encounters. Malcolm McCulloch introduces the section on spatial settings and -- last but not least -- Elizabeth Churchill previews the topic of social glue. The individual chapters that accompany each part offer particular perspectives on the main topic and provide detailed insights from the author's own research background. A valuable reference for anyone designing ubiquitous media, mobile social software and LBS applications, this volume will also be useful to researchers, students and practitioners in fields ranging from computer science to urban studies.