Rost, M., Kitsos, C., Morgan, A., Podlubny, M., Romeo, P., Russo, E. and Chalmers, M. (2016) Forget-me-not: History-less Mobile Messaging. In: ACM CHI 2016, San Jose, CA, USA, 7-12 May 2016, ISBN 9781450333627 (doi: 10.1145/2858036.2858347)
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Abstract
Text messaging has long been a popular activity, and today smartphone apps enable users to choose from a plethora of mobile messaging applications. While we know a lot about SMS practices, we know less about practices of messaging applications. In this paper, we take a first step to explore one ubiquitous aspect of mobile messaging – messaging history. We designed, built, and trialled a mobile messaging application without history—named forget-me-not. The two-week trial showed that history-less messaging no longer supports chit-chat as seen in e.g. WhatsApp, but is still considered conversational and more ‘engaging’. Participants expressed being lenient and relaxed about what they wrote. Removing the history allowed us to gain insights into what uses history has in other mobile messaging applications, such as planning events, allowing for distractions, and maintaining multiple conversation threads.
| Item Type: | Conference Proceedings |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Russo, Mr Edoardo and Podlubny, Martin and Kitsos, Mr Christos and Chalmers, Professor Matthew and Rost, Dr Mattias |
| Authors: | Rost, M., Kitsos, C., Morgan, A., Podlubny, M., Romeo, P., Russo, E., and Chalmers, M. |
| College/School: | College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science |
| ISBN: | 9781450333627 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2016 ACM |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher |
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