Socially Smart Mobility: Exploring and prototyping the car as a socially engaging platform

Nowadays people are increasingly sharing, collaborating and exchanging things. For example, AirBnB and Zipcar have been growing since the past five years. The economic recession and the rise of sustainable solutions are causes for this trend. Especially, car-sharing has been growing ever due to the legislative, and cultural emphasis on green and...

Explorations in Social Interaction Design

This one-day workshop brings together HCI scholars and practitioners who share a common interest in understanding and exploring how we will be socially connected in the future. Central to our discussion will be the exploration of an interdisciplinary research agenda in social interaction design (SxD) that merges social networks and socially...

Designing awareness systems for social connectedness – A field study approach into theoretical foundations, design principles and evaluation

Being in touch, and being aware of the people in one’s social network strongly contributes to one’s sense of social well-being. As communication technology has become more ubiquitous, it is possible to always be in touch with friends and relatives in the periphery of one’s attention, e.g. through instant messaging and online social networks....