Unexpected journeys with the hobbit - The design and evaluation of an asocial hiking app

Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 637-646

  Posti, Maaret ^a   Schöning, Johannes ^b   Häkkilä, Jonna ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Contextaware computing; Hiking; Location based services (LBS); Mobile devices; Solitude; User studies

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; DESIGN; DIGITAL STORAGE; LOCATION BASED SERVICES; MOBILE DEVICES;

CONTEXT-AWARE COMPUTING; DESIGN AND EVALUATIONS; DESIGN RECOMMENDATIONS; FUNCTIONAL PROTOTYPES; HIKING; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; SOLITUDE; USER STUDY;

SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

EID: 84904488807     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2598510.2598592     Document Type: Conference Paper

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