Taking as an act of sharing
Authors: 
Helena M. Mentis, 
Siân E. Lindley, Stuart Taylor, 
Paul Dunphy, Tim Regan, Richard HarperAuthors Info & Claims
Helena M. Mentis, Siân E. Lindley, Stuart Taylor, Paul Dunphy, Tim Regan, Richard HarperAuthors Info & ClaimsPages 1091 - 1100
Abstract
We present findings from the deployment of a mobile application, Take and Give, which allows users to place image files in a virtual folder or 'Pocket' on a mobile phone. This content can be viewed by a set of 'Buddies', who can, if they wish, attempt to take ownership of a file for themselves, following which they can keep it, delete it, or place it in the Pocket of someone else. There is only one version of each file, creating a twist on traditional sharing technologies. We report findings from a three week trial of the application in an office space, and describe how Take and Give provided a means of self-presentation and supported a sense of awareness, mutual attentiveness and connectedness. Our findings suggest that the taking of unique content can be an engaging form of sharing and can facilitate awareness and connectedness between people.
References
[1]
Barkhuus, L., Chalmers, M., Tennent, P., Hall, M., Sherwood, S. & Brown, B. Picking pockets on the lawn: The development of tactics and strategies in a mobile game. In Proc. UbiComp 2005, 358--374.
[2]
Beggan, J. K. On the social nature of non-social perception: The mere ownership effect. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology 62, 2 (1992), 229--237.
[3]
Berg, S. Taylor, A. & Harper R. Mobile phones for the next generation: Device designs for teenagers. In Proc. CHI 2003, 433--440.
[4]
Caillois, R. Man, Play and Games. University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 1958.
[5]
Foucault, B., Mentis, H. M., Sengers, P. & Welles, D. Provoking sociability. In Proc. CHI 2007, 1557--1560.
[6]
Goffman, E. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Penguin Books, London, 1959.
[7]
Halfaker, A., Kittur, A., Kraut, R. & Riedl, J. A jury of your peers: Quality, experience and ownership in Wikipedia. In Proc. WikiSym 2009, 155--164.
[8]
Harper, R. H. R. Texture: Human Expression in the Age of Communications Overload. The MIT Press, London, 2010.
[9]
Harper, R. & Taylor. S. Glancephone: An exploration of human expression. In Proc. MobileHCI 2009, 1--10.
[10]
Hill, W. C., Hollan, J. D., Wroblewski, D., McCandless, T. Edit wear and read wear. In Proc. CHI 1992, 3--9.
[11]
Hollan, J. & Stornetta, S. Beyond being there. Proc. CHI 1992, 119--125.
[12]
Huizinga, J. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture. The Beacon Press, Boston, 1950.
[13]
Kaprow, A. Essays on the blurring of art and life. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2003.
[14]
Liu, C. M. Urbanhermes: Fashion signalling and the social mobility of images. Master's Thesis (2006). Downloaded November 15, 2011: http://smg.media.mit.edu/projects/urbanhermes/thesisfinal.pdf.
[15]
Marshall, C. C. & Shipman, F. M. Social media ownership: using Twitter as a window onto current attitudes and beliefs. In Proc. CHI 2011, 1081--1090.
[16]
Nardi, B. Beyond bandwidth: Dimensions of connection in interpersonal communication. Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 14, 2 (2005), 91--130.
[17]
Pierce, J. L., Kostova, T. & Dirks, K. T. Toward a theory of psychological ownership in organizations. Academy of Management Review 26, (2001), 298--310.
[18]
Roy, D. F. Banana Time: Job satisfaction and informal interaction. Human Organization 18, (1959), 158--168.
[19]
Strauss, A. L. Qualitative Analysis for Social Scientists. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987.
[20]
Taylor, A. & Harper, R. The gift of the gab: A design oriented sociology of young people's use of mobiles. Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 12, 3 (2003) 267--296.
[21]
Thom-Santelli, J., Cosley, D. & Gay, G. What's mine is mine: Territoriality in collaborative authoring. In Proc. CHI 2009, 1481--1484.
[22]
Voida, A., Grinter, R. E., Ducheneaut, N., Edwards, W. K. & Newman, M. W. Listening in: Practices surrounding iTunes music sharing. In Proc. CHI 2005, 191--2000.
[23]
Wang, Q. Y., Battocchi, A., Graziola, I., Pianesi, F., Tomasini, D., Zancanaro, M. & Nass, C. The role of psychological ownership and ownership markers in collaborative working environment. In Proc. ICMI 2006, 225--232.
Index Terms
- Taking as an act of sharing
Recommendations
Social network sites influence recovery from social exclusion
Social network sites (SNSs) have been found to be closely associated with responses to social exclusion and to impact people with high or low levels of social anxiety in different ways. Our study tested whether social anxiety, an individual difference ...
Comments
Information & Contributors
Information
Published In
February 2012
1460 pages
ISBN:9781450310864
DOI:10.1145/2145204
- General Chairs:
- Steven Poltrock,
- Carla Simone,
- Program Chairs:
- Jonathan Grudin,
- Gloria Mark,
- John Riedl
Copyright © 2012 ACM.
Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]
Sponsors
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
New York, NY, United States
Publication History
Published: 11 February 2012
Check for updates
Author Tags
Qualifiers
- Research-article
Conference
CSCW '12
Sponsor:
Acceptance Rates
CSCW '12 Paper Acceptance Rate 164 of 415 submissions, 40%;
Overall Acceptance Rate 2,235 of 8,521 submissions, 26%
Upcoming Conference
CSCW '25
- Sponsor:
- sigchi
Contributors
Other Metrics
Bibliometrics & Citations
Bibliometrics
Article Metrics
- 0Total Citations
- 380Total Downloads
- Downloads (Last 12 months)3
- Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0
Reflects downloads up to 20 Jan 2025
Other Metrics
Citations
Cited By
View allView Options
Login options
Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.
Sign in