The uses of personal networked digital imaging: an empirical study of cameraphone photos and sharing
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Developments in networked digital imaging promise to substantially affect the near-universal experience of personal photography. Designing technology for image capture and sharing requires an understanding of how people use photos as well as how they adapt emerging technology to their photographic practices, and vice versa. In this paper, we report on an empirical study of the uses made of a prototype context-aware cameraphone application for mobile media sharing, and relate them to prior work on photographic practices. By reducing many of the barriers to cameraphone use and image sharing (including increasing image quality, easing the sharing process, and removing cost barriers), we find that users quickly develop new uses for imaging. Their innovative communicative uses of imaging are understandable in terms of the social uses identified from prior photographic activity; new functional uses are developing as well.
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Sharing photos online can have functional purposes with the aim of supporting personal and mutual tasks.
“Sharing photos online can also have functional purposes with the aim of supporting personal and mutual tasks (Goh et al., 2009;Kindberg, Spasojevic, Fleck, & Sellen, 2005;N. Van House et al., 2005).”
From Uses and Gratifications of digital photo sharing on Facebook (2016) · cites this paper as N. Van House et al., 2005
Taking, sending, and receiving photographs is a real time experience, and like spoken words, image exchanges are not meant to be archived.
“Taking, sending, and receiving photographs is a real time experience, and like spoken words, image exchanges are not meant to be archived (Van House, Davis, and Ames, 2005).”
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Why We Share: A Study of Motivations for Mobile Media Sharing
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- Authors
- Van House, N., Davis, M., Ames, M., Finn, M., & Viswanathan, V.
- Affiliations
- University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Venue
- CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2005-04-02
- Pages
- 1853-1856
- OpenAlex
- W1992402038
- Cited by
- 235
- References
- 2
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- FWCI
- 744.26
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA) (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Photography and Visual Culture
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Media and Digital Communication
- Keywords
- personal photography, context-aware computing, photographic practice, image sharing, user innovation, image quality, cost barriers
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