| Title |
Selfie Cafe: Socialization in Public Spaces |
| ID_Doc |
44481 |
| Authors |
Bueno, AO; Anacleto, JC; Ferreira, V; Abib, J; Souza, C; Consiglieri, D |
| Title |
Selfie Cafe: Socialization in Public Spaces |
| Year |
2015 |
| Published |
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| DOI |
10.1145/2695664.2695824 |
| Abstract |
Once Online Social Networks became popular in the last decade, people tend to spend a fair amount of time in the virtual world. As a consequence, real encounters, especially with non-related people tend to not be encouraged or even exciting anymore. Aware that mobile devices become more popular and powerful considering pervasiveness and ubiquitousness, we strategically decided to use technology in order to support and promote people gathering in public spaces. In this paper, we present Selfie Cafe, an Urban Computing application for leveraging socialization. The application was deployed in the wild to see how people would react to it in specific places where socialization would be expected but was not happening. Results of the Selfie Cafe installation show that it helped setting a more playful mood in the place, an increase in the time spent by people in there as well as supporting interactions among locals, acquaintances and strangers. |
| Author Keywords |
Urban Computing; Smart City; Ubiquitous Computing; Social Computing; Interactive Applications |
| Index Keywords |
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| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S) |
| EID |
WOS:000381029800024 |
| WoS Category |
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications |
| Research Area |
Computer Science |
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