In this work we present a mobile application we designed and engineered to enable people to log their travels near and far, leave notes behind, and build a community around spaces in between destinations. Our design explores new ground for location-based social computing systems, identifying opportunities where these systems can foster the growth of on-line communities rooted at non-places. In our work we develop, explore, and evaluate several innovative features designed around four usage scenarios: daily commuting, long-distance traveling, quantified traveling, and journaling. We present the results of two small-scale user studies, and one large-scale, world-wide deployment, synthesizing the results as potential opportunities and lessons learned in designing social computing for non-places.
@article{arxiv.1605.08548,
title = {Journeys & Notes: Designing Social Computing for Non-Places},
author = {Justin Cranshaw and Andrés Monroy-Hernández and S. A. Needham},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.08548},
year = {2017}
}
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CHI '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems