TY - GEN
T1 - A study of motivations for using mobile content sharing games
AU - Low, Guanghao
AU - Goh, Dion Hoe Lian
AU - Lee, Chei Sian
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Applications blending games with mobile content sharing have recently attracted much interest. In this paper, we examine users' motivations for creating content in the context of Indagator, a mobile content sharing game. Studying motivations is important because a deeper understanding will help designers create compelling and impactful applications for users. We conducted an experiment where 28 participants used Indagator for a week to create content (annotations). Participants were also interviewed. All interview responses, and annotations generated (599) were manually examined and coded to ascertain motivations. Motivations for creating content include altruism, task performance, competitive play, killing time, reminder of experiences, self-presentation, and socializing. Additionally, games emerged as a motivator for sharing mobile content. Implications from our findings are discussed.
AB - Applications blending games with mobile content sharing have recently attracted much interest. In this paper, we examine users' motivations for creating content in the context of Indagator, a mobile content sharing game. Studying motivations is important because a deeper understanding will help designers create compelling and impactful applications for users. We conducted an experiment where 28 participants used Indagator for a week to create content (annotations). Participants were also interviewed. All interview responses, and annotations generated (599) were manually examined and coded to ascertain motivations. Motivations for creating content include altruism, task performance, competitive play, killing time, reminder of experiences, self-presentation, and socializing. Additionally, games emerged as a motivator for sharing mobile content. Implications from our findings are discussed.
KW - Mobile content sharing game
KW - motivations
KW - user study
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U2 - 10.1109/ICDIM.2011.6093318
DO - 10.1109/ICDIM.2011.6093318
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:83755163009
SN - 9781457715389
T3 - 2011 6th International Conference on Digital Information Management, ICDIM 2011
SP - 258
EP - 263
BT - 2011 6th International Conference on Digital Information Management, ICDIM 2011
T2 - 2011 6th International Conference on Digital Information Management, ICDIM 2011
Y2 - 26 September 2011 through 28 September 2011
ER -