Social weight: designing to minimise the social consequences arising from technology use by the mobile professional
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2003
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Toney, A.
Mulley, B.J.
Thomas, B.H.
Piekarski, W.
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Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2003; 7(5):309-320
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This paper defines the concept of social weight as a design consideration and presents the e-SUIT, a social weight research platform incorporated covertly within a traditional business suit. The e-SUIT allows its user to strike a balance between a given technology's derived benefit and its social consequence. As the e- SUIT is designed for research within a business context, it is built upon commercially available enterprise software. This work is a first step towards subjecting the empirical social interactive phenomena of wearable technology to quantitative design analysis. Proof of concept testing shows access to commercially available enterprise applications with a distinct, user selectable, strata of social weight. © 2003 Springer-Verlag London Limited.
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Link to a related website: http://www.tinmith.net/papers/toney-puc-2003.pdf, Open Access via Unpaywall
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