Brown-etal2018

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Brown-etal2018
BibType ARTICLE
Key Brown-etal2018
Author(s) Barry Brown, Kenton O'hara, Moira Mcgregor, Donal Mcmillan
Title Text in talk: lightweight messages in co-present interaction
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Tag(s) EMCA, HCI, Text messaging, Technologized interaction
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Year 2018
Language English
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Journal ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Volume 24
Number 6
Pages Article 42
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DOI 10.1145/3152419
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While lightweight text messaging applications have been researched extensively, new messaging applications such as iMessage, WhatsApp, and Snapchat offer some new functionality and potential uses. Moreover, the role messaging plays in interaction and talk with those who are co-present has been neglected. In this article, we draw upon a corpus of naturalistic recordings of text message reading and composition to document the face-to-face life of text messages. Messages, both sent and received, share similarities with reported speech in conversation; they can become topical resource for local conversation–supporting verbatim reading aloud or adaptive summaries. Yet with text messages, their verifiability creates a distinctive resource. Similarly, in message composition, what to write may be discussed with collocated others. We conclude with discussion of designs for messaging in both face-to-face, and remote, communication.

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