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Bluetooth friendly names: bringing classic HCI questions into the mobile space

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Gareth J. F. Jones,

Alan F. SmeatonAuthors Info & Claims

BCS-HCI '07: Proceedings of the 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: HCI...but not as we know it - Volume 2

Pages 63 - 66

Published: 03 September 2007 Publication History

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We explore the use of Bluetooth friendly names within the mobile space. Each Bluetooth-enabled device possesses a short string known as a 'friendly name' used to help identify a device to human users. In our analysis, we collected friendly names in use on 9,854 Bluetooth-enabled devices over a 7-month period. These names were then classified and the results analysed. We discovered that a broad range of HCI themes are applicable to the domain of Bluetooth friendly names, including previous work on personalisation, naming strategies and anonymity in computer mediated communication. We also found that Bluetooth is already being used as a platform for social interaction and communication amongst collocated groups and has moved beyond its original intention of file exchange.

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Do TKalimeri KLepri BPianesi FGatica-Perez DEpps JChen FOviatt SMase KSears AJokinen KSchuller B(2013)Inferring social activities with mobile sensor networksProceedings of the 15th ACM on International conference on multimodal interaction10.1145/2522848.2522894(405-412)Online publication date: 9-Dec-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2522848.2522894

Index Terms

Bluetooth friendly names: bringing classic HCI questions into the mobile space
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)
2. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Multimedia information systems

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BCS-HCI '07: Proceedings of the 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: HCI...but not as we know it - Volume 2

September 2007

270 pages

ISBN:9781902505954

Conference Chairs:
Tom Ormerod
Lancaster University, UK
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Corina Sas
Lancaster University, UK

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BCS Learning & Development Ltd.

Swindon, United Kingdom

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Published: 03 September 2007

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Do TKalimeri KLepri BPianesi FGatica-Perez DEpps JChen FOviatt SMase KSears AJokinen KSchuller B(2013)Inferring social activities with mobile sensor networksProceedings of the 15th ACM on International conference on multimodal interaction10.1145/2522848.2522894(405-412)Online publication date: 9-Dec-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2522848.2522894

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