In mobile collocated interactions, groups of users spontaneously combine their mobile devices to engage in rich shared activities and experiences. Before collocated users can engage in such interactions, they must first connect their devices into a group.

In our work, we have been looking at the binding process in medium-size groups of four to six users from a user’s perspective. We have aimed to understand how people would naturally connect wireless devices, regardless of the technical limitations posed by current hardware.