Social Uses of Personal Media

This project is investigating a central problem for technology design: predicting users and uses for emerging technologies, i.e., doing user-centered design for users and uses that don't yet exist. We use the term "social uses" to describe the higher level motives that guide the specific actions that users perform. These social uses and the associated findings from our social science research have significant implications for mobile media technology design and inform our development of design methods aimed at projecting and designing for future uses and users of mobile media technology.

Other Garage Cinema Research projects:

• Mobile Media Metadata (MMM)
• Media Streams Metadata Exchange (MSMDX)
• Active Capture
• Adaptive Media