City Explorer: The Design and Evaluation of a Location-Based Community Information System

被引:7
作者
Pang, Carolyn [1 ]
Pan, Rui [1 ]
Neustaedter, Carman [1 ]
Hennessy, Kate [1 ]
机构
[1] Simon Fraser Univ, Sch Interact Arts & Technol, Surrey, BC, Canada
来源
CHI 2019: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2019 CHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS | 2019年
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
Community; urban informatics; location-based games; mobile computing;
D O I
10.1145/3290605.3300571
中图分类号
TP3 [计算技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
Many working professionals commute via public transit, yet they have limited tools for learning about their urban neighborhoods and fellow commuters. We designed a location-based game called City Explorer to investigate how transit commuters capture, share, and view community information that is specifically tied to locations. Through a four-week field study, we found that participants valued the increased awareness of their personal travel routines that they gained through City Explorer. When viewing community information, they preferred information that was factual rather than opinion-based and was presented at the start and end of their commutes. Participants found less value in connecting with other transit riders because transit rides were often seen as opportunities to disengage from others. We discuss how location-based technologies can be designed to display factual community information before, during, and at the end of transit commutes.
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