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We have performed an ethnographic study that reveals the importance of social interaction, and especially traffic encounters, for the enjoyment of biking. We summarized these findings into a set of design requirements for a service supporting mobile interaction among motorcyclists. The Hocman prototype is designed to meet these requirements. It is an application for handheld devices equipped with wireless ad hoc networking interfaces. It uses a peer-to-peer architecture to accomplish sharing of HTML documents with peers in the immediate proximity. The aim of sharing is to spark social interaction among motorcyclists during brief encounters. We report a field trial on the prototype service in its naturalistic setting. Despite the unmanageable setting, e.g. the vast area, the speed, and unacquainted users, we demonstrate field trials as an effective approach to get feedback on how well a prototype service fulfils the design requirements. The results indicate that the conceptual idea of Hocman was appreciated, which suggest that the focus on interaction in traffic encounters fit with current practice of motorcycling.
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Esbjörnsson, M., Juhlin, O., Östergren, M. (2003). Motorcyclists Using Hocman – Field Trials on Mobile Interaction. In: Chittaro, L. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. Mobile HCI 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2795. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45233-1_4
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