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Brief encounters between unacquainted and acquainted motorcyclists are enjoyable moments. Motorcyclists spend an appreciable amount of time on the roads to meet other bikers. During the traffic encounters, they interact visually by means of their driving, their choice of bike and personal equipment. We uncover problematic issues in this practice and how these are currently addressed by the bikers themselves. To get more out of the cherished meetings in traffic, the activities on the roads are partly arranged, and partly complemented by the use of a public message-board on the web. To further extend the social interaction we have generated a novel mobile social media, called the Hocman. It is a peer-to-peer application with mobile wireless ad hoc networking for PDAs. It enhances traffic encounters between bikers by playing a sound icon and automatically exchanging personal HTML pages.
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Juhlin, O. (2010). Motorcycling and Social Interaction—Design for the Enjoyment of Traffic Encounters. In: Social Media on the Road. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, vol 50. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-332-9_9
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