Social Media on the Road The Future of Car Based Computing /

• Main Author: Juhlin, Oskar (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 50
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Computers and civilization.; Communication.; Computer Science.; Computers and Society.; Computer Communication Networks.; Communication Studies.

In the future, everyday life in traffic will be intricately meshed with city life. Today motorways, cities and streets are places where we spend a considerable amount of time, and where a large number of everyday encounters between people occur. Any road user’s journey coincides with hundreds or eve...

Table of Contents:

• An Empirical Program of Road Use
• Social Life in Traffic
• Juxtaposing Traffic Research and Social Computing
• Investigating and Designing for Social Interaction
• Vitality and Social Interaction on the Roads
• Traffic as Situated Interaction
• Interactional Adaptation for Achieving Safe Mobile Phone Handling in Traffic
• Driving and Articulating the Road Context with the PlaceMemo Application
• Road Talk: A Public Roadside Location-Dependent Audio Message System
• Sense and Social Interaction
• The Automobile Flâneur—Joint Music Listening in Traffic Encounters
• Motorcycling and Social Interaction—Design for the Enjoyment of Traffic Encounters
• Legibility and Public Road Signs
• The Road as a Stage in Journey Games
• A Game for the Backseat Experience
• Locative Interactive Storytelling Along Vast Road Networks
• Multiplayer Gaming in Traffic Encounters
• Post Script: A New Balancing Act for Research on Traffic and Mobile Technology.