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Social weight: designing to minimise the social consequences arising from technology use by the mobile professional

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This paper defines the concept of social weight as a design consideration and presents the e-SUIT, a social weight research platform incorporated covertly within a traditional business suit. The e-SUIT allows its user to strike a balance between a given technology's derived benefit and its social consequence. As the e-SUIT is designed for research within a business context, it is built upon commercially available enterprise software. This work is a first step towards subjecting the empirical social interactive phenomena of wearable technology to quantitative design analysis. Proof of concept testing shows access to commercially available enterprise applications with a distinct, user selectable, strata of social weight.

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The authors would like to acknowledge the assistance of Vina Brailsford for the lending of sewing equipment and practical tailoring advice.

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    Aaron Toney, Barrie Mulley, Bruce H. Thomas & Wayne Piekarski

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Toney, A., Mulley, B., Thomas, B.H. et al. Social weight: designing to minimise the social consequences arising from technology use by the mobile professional. Pers Ubiquit Comput 7, 309–320 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-003-0245-8

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