Kanis, Marije;
Winters, Niall;
Agamanolis, Stefan;
Gavin, Anna;
Cullinan, Cian;
(2005)
Toward Wearable Social Networking with iBand.
In:
CHI EA '05: CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
(pp. pp. 1521-1524).
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): New York, NY, USA.
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Abstract
The iBand is a wearable bracelet-like device that exchanges information about its users and their relationships. This exchange happens during the common gesture of the handshake, which is detected by the device. As such, iBand seeks to explore potential applications at the intersection of social networking and ubiquitous computing. In this paper, we discuss the iBand technology and feedback from an initial study in which 11 devices were used at two different social networking events. The results suggest that control over personal information is an ongoing issue, but they also highlight the possibility for wearable devices to enable the creation of a set of invented techno-gestures with different affordances and constraints that might be more appropriate for certain social interaction applications.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Toward Wearable Social Networking with iBand |
| Event: | CHI05: CHI 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
| ISBN-13: | 1595930027 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1145/1056808 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1145/1056808.1056956 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Human relationships; social networking; ubiquitous computing; wearable computing |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10000427 |
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