Social Media on the Road The Future of Car Based Computing /

• Main Author: Juhlin, Oskar. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 50
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer Science.; Computers and Society.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-332-9

In the future, everyday life in traffic will be intricately meshed with city life. Today motorways, cities and streets are places where we spend a considerable amount of time, and where a large number of everyday encounters between people occur. Any road user<U+0019>s journey coincides with hu...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Part I - An Empirical Program of Road Use
• 1. Social Life in Traffic
• 2. Juxtaposing Traffic Research and Social Computing
• 3. Investigating and Designing for Social Interaction
• Part II - Vitality and Social Interaction on the Roads
• 4 Traffic as Situated Interaction
• 5. Interactional Adaptation for Achieving Safe Mobile Phone Handling in Traffic
• 6. Driving and Articulating the Road Context with the PlaceMemo Application
• 7. Road Talk: A Public Roadside Location-Dependent Audio Message System
• Part III - Sense and Social Interaction
• 8. The Automobile Flńeur <U+0013> Joint Music Listening in Traffic Encounters
• 9. Motorcycling and Social Interaction <U+0013> Design for the Enjoyment of Traffic Encounters
• 10. Legibility and Public Road Signs
• 11. The Road as a Stage in Journey Games
• 12. A Game for the Backseat Experience
• 13. Locative Interactive Storytelling Along Vast Road Networks
• 14. Multiplayer Gaming in Traffic Encounters
• 15. Post script: A New Balancing Act for Research on Traffic and Mobile Technology
• Index.