• Figure 3. Key features of mobile community applications include sharing, contacting, and collaborating— all of which support socializing. In addition, other functions (for example, personal information management and voting as personalization) are added to deal with information generated in a community.

A Taxonomy of Mobile Community Activities

Mobile Life

Personal data management

Attention

PIMS

Personal

Voting + Polling

Social

Mobile Community

Sharing

Location based information sharing Schedule sharing

Status sharing

Contacting

Personal broadcasting
Mobile DJ
Emotional messaging

Collaborating

Video collaboration Discussion thread

A Conceptual UI for Mobile Community

Subject Actor People

Verb

Action Goal

Object
Material
Content

Sharing

People

share

content

content

• Figure 4. UI components are created by composing sentences that suggest ways to organize community features.

Contacting

People

connect

with others

Collaborating

People

create

content

+

content =

November + December 2009

Goal Voting

• Figure 5. Collective (e.g., friends or family) decisions are visually presented and delivered to the members within a voting or polling application.

People

Subject

Selected Goal Unselected Goal

Community Members

Voting Subject

Content Option

Voting Options

interactions