TxtBoard: from text-to-person to text-to-home

2005. CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Kenton O'Hara, Richard Harper, Axel Unger, James Wilkes, Bill Sharpe & Marcel Jansen.

The design of existing mobile phone technology has emphasised the primacy of person-to-person communication for voice, SMS and image-based communication. It may be contrasted with place-to-place communication, the key property of fixed line telephony. However, other forms of communication may mix these two approaches: these include place-to-person or person-to place for example. These patterns may afford different values to users. This reports a field study of a prototype person-to-place SMS communications device, 'TxtBoard'. This is a small, fixed display appliance for home settings. It displays text messages sent to it from any standard mobile phone. The study highlights how the person-to-place character of the device, combined with the 'public' or situated characteristics of its placement within home settings in particular, create new opportunities for use of SMS.

Full paper

https://doi.org/10.1145/1056808.1057002

Citation

O'Hara, K., Harper, R., Unger, A., Wilkes, J., Sharpe, B., & Jansen, M. (2005). Txtboard: from text-to-person to text-to-home. CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1705–1708). New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/1056808.1057002, doi:10.1145/1056808.1057002

BibTeX

@inproceedings{10.1145/1056808.1057002, author = {O'Hara, Kenton and Harper, Richard and Unger, Axel and Wilkes, James and Sharpe, Bill and Jansen, Marcel}, title = {TxtBoard: from text-to-person to text-to-home}, year = {2005}, isbn = {1595930027}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/1056808.1057002}, doi = {10.1145/1056808.1057002}, abstract = {The design of existing mobile phone technology has emphasised the primacy of person-to-person communication for voice, SMS and image-based communication. It may be contrasted with place-to-place communication, the key property of fixed line telephony. However, other forms of communication may mix these two approaches: these include place-to-person or person-to place for example. These patterns may afford different values to users. This reports a field study of a prototype person-to-place SMS communications device, 'TxtBoard'. This is a small, fixed display appliance for home settings. It displays text messages sent to it from any standard mobile phone. The study highlights how the person-to-place character of the device, combined with the 'public' or situated characteristics of its placement within home settings in particular, create new opportunities for use of SMS.}, booktitle = {CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems}, pages = {1705–1708}, numpages = {4}, keywords = {txtboard, text messaging, situated display, public display, mobile phone, home, SMS}, location = {Portland, OR, USA}, series = {CHI EA '05} }