ABSTRACT
People are able to capture and thus remember significant moments in their lives with their phones. However, people also sometimes send items, turning files on the phone into messages, which is another, equally essential facet of mobile multimedia. Pictures of all-too-familiar streetscapes, workplaces, homes, summer homes, and familiar people are banal and often too boring to carry out any meaningful interaction. In consequence, users have to solve a host of problems in designing multimedia messages. Multimedia messages are not always construed as self-standing postcard-like messages that do not require a reply. Even if messages have response instructions that, in normal cases, would direct responses in a certain direction, they may be placed in messages such that recipients find it more relevant to bypass them and design their response on another item. Often, messages are designed to cheer up the recipient. When designing their messages with an eye on the recipient, senders have multiple means at their disposal.
