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Figure 4. The commenting view
Figure 3. The image menu
images from a mobile device to a photo sharing
Internet service. It was available on the market
and used with the Flickr service (2008) during
the study. We will later refer to the combination
of the Gallery application and the upload tool as
“Gallery”.
The upload tool was a stand-alone application
that offered a way for user to browse, upload and
publish images (Figure 5). The user could also
view images published by others. The upload
tool also included functionality to view and add
titles, descriptions and comments. The commands
were accessible via a tool bar that was visible
when browsing images. Furthermore, the upload
tool enabled publishing of images directly from
tionality as the mobile application: the user could
view and publish his images, add and modify
titles and descriptions of images, browse images
published by other users, and view and add com-
ments.
USER STUDY
We conducted a field study of 1+1 weeks to
compare our service-integrated mobile gallery ap-
plication, Image Exchange, with a state-of-the-art
gallery application combined with an add-on tool
for photo sharing. The study included two groups
each containing five participants who used Image
Exchange and the combination of the gallery ap-
plication and the upload tool for seven days each.
The focus of the study was on the overall user
experience of implemented features and how that
would affect the social activity within the group
during the testing periods.
Figure 5. The upload tool used for the comparison
Application for Comparison
The state-of-the-art gallery application used for
comparison was the default Gallery application
in the Nokia N95 mobile device. The upload tool
used with the Gallery application was a mobile
Symbian S60 application developed for posting
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