Have you heard this? : designing mobile social software
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FORMakademisk. 2010, vol. 3 nr.1, s. 57-79Sammendrag
‘Desktop’ social networking services are migrating to mobile devices. Research into the
design of mobile social software (MoSoSo), especially its communication design, is emerging.
The case we present is from a collaborative, interdisciplinary research project into
communicative design innovation concerning these technologies. In focus is the design of
what we label the communicative prototype for an interaction and media centred view of
social software development. This view is applied to an exploratory design research case that
extends an established online social service to the iPhone/iPod platform. The conceptual
design in the case is intended to enable the discovery of independent, non-commercial music.
The projected service was developed in consultation with a national public service
broadcaster. We frame the design and analysis within a sociocultural approach to mediated
communication and research by design. We employ mixed methods both in design and in
research. We argue that a communicative stance in early concept development offers valuable
insights on the ongoing design of social software. The communication expertise of interaction
designers is central to this.
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