Fragmentation and transition

Odom, William; Zimmerman, John; Forlizzi, Jodi; Higuera, Ana López; Marchitto, Mauro; Cañas, José J.; Lim, Youn-kyung; Nam, Tek-Jin; Lee, Moon‐Hwan; Lee, Yeoreum; Kim, Da-jung; Row, Yea-Kyung; Seok, Jin-min; Sohn, Bokyung; Moore, Heather

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“…20% of those adults aged 65-75 used a smartphone (up from 12% in 2012). Survey data also reveals 49% of Internet users aged 55-64 had a social media profile, as did 28% of those aged 65+ [45]. These statistics broadly demonstrate the importance for HCI researchers to attend to the needs of ageing populations of online technology users [11].…”

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confidence: 85%

“…Alongside a multi-generational perspective that considers the long-term sustainability of technology [18], it is argued there is great potential in studying key transition periods in a lifespan to critically consider our changing digital behaviors and values held in Internet-enabled technologies [2]. Therefore, HCI research has recently considered key events in technology users' lives, such as 'coming of age' [45,61], marriage [36], becoming a parent [22], relationship break-ups [57], divorce [40], and death and memorialization [37].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Transitions in Digital Personhood

Durrant

Kirk

Pisanty

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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We present findings from a qualitative study about how Internet use supports self-functioning following the life transition of retirement from work. This study recruited six recent retirees and included the deployment of OnLines, a design research artifact that logged and visualized key online services used by participants at home over four-weeks. The deployment was supported by pre-and post-deployment interviews. OnLines prompted participants' reflection on their patterns of Internet use. Position Exchange Theory was used to understand retirees' sense making from a lifespan perspective, informing the design of supportive online services. This paper delivers a three-fold contribution to the field of human-computer interaction, advancing a lifespanoriented approach by conceptualizing the self as a dialogical phenomenon that develops over time, advancing the ageing discourse by reporting on retirees' complex identities in the context of their life histories, and advancing discourse on research through design by developing OnLines to foster participant-researcher reflection informed by Self Psychology.

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confidence: 99%

Transitions in Digital Personhood

Durrant

Kirk

Pisanty

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…He contrasted them to personal physical possessions and proposed three distinctive qualities [Odom et al, 2014]: (i) placelessness -an absence of place where digital things can be found; (ii) spacelessness -they do not intrude into people's physical space and can thus grow invisibly; and (iii) formlessness -the fact that there is no clear sense of how virtual possessions can become unique personal artifacts. Furthermore, he argued that the accrual of metadata is another defining aspect of virtual possessions [Odom et al, 2011]: it allows for personalization, linking multiple types of virtual possessions together, and creating social stories [Odom et al, 2013].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Sharing virtual possessions in domestic environments comes with a number of challenges in comparison to their physical counterparts. Firstly, the virtual possessions are fragmented across different services (e.g., desktop, cloud storages, smartphones), which complicates users' sense of ownership [Odom et al, 2013] and control over them [Odom et al, 2012]. Secondly, a study of family heirlooms [Petrelli and Whittaker, 2010] revealed that digital belongings are often lacking symbolic associations and lasting value in comparison to their physical counterparts.…”

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confidence: 99%

Supporting the Design of Technology-Mediated Sharing Practices

Fedosov¹

2020

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Online social networks have made sharing personal experiences with others mostly in form of photos and comments a common activity. The convergenceof social, mobile, cloud and wearable computing expanded the scope of usergeneratedand shared content on the net from personal media to individual preferencesto physiological details (e.g., in the form of daily workouts) to informationabout real-world possessions (e.g., apartments, cars). Once everydaythings become increasingly networked (i.e., the Internet of Things), future onlineservices and connected devices will only expand the set of things to share. Given that a new generation of sharing services is about to emerge, it is of crucialimportance to provide service designers with the right insights to adequatelysupport novel sharing practices. This work explores these practices within twoemergent sharing domains: (1) personal activity tracking and (2) sharing economyservices. The goal of this dissertation is to understand current practices ofsharing personal digital and physical possessions, and to uncover correspondingend-user needs and concerns across novel sharing practices, in order to map thedesign space to support emergent and future sharing needs. We address this goalby adopting two research strategies, one using a bottom-up approach, the otherfollowing a top-down approach.In the bottom-up approach, we examine in-depth novel sharing practices within two emergent sharing domains through a set of empirical qualitative studies.We offer a rich and descriptive account of peoples sharing routines and characterizethe specific role of interactive technologies that support or inhibit sharingin those domains. We then design, develop, and deploy several technology prototypesthat afford digital and physical sharing with the view to informing the design of future sharing services and tools within two domains, personal activitytracking and sharing economy services.In the top-down approach, drawing on scholarship in human-computer interaction (HCI) and interaction design, we systematically examine prior workon current technology-mediated sharing practices and identify a set of commonalitiesand differences among sharing digital and physical artifacts. Based uponthese findings, we further argue that many challenges and issues that are presentin digital online sharing are also highly relevant for the physical sharing in thecontext of the sharing economy, especially when the shared physical objects havedigital representations and are mediated by an online platform. To account forthese particularities, we develop and field-test an action-driven toolkit for designpractitioners to both support the creation of future sharing economy platformsand services, as well as to improve the user experience of existing services.This dissertation should be of particular interest to HCI and interaction designresearchers who are critically exploring technology-mediated sharing practicesthrough fieldwork studies, as well to design practitioners who are building and evaluating sharing economy services.

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“…Such studies have included: insights into how home network technologies could support better user management [8]; understandings of the short lifetimes of mobile phones [9]; frameworks of personal attachment to inform the design of devices that are longer-lived and more likely to be cherished or passed on to others [10], [11]; reasons why electronic devices are kept even after they have fallen out of use [12]; how meaning is composed for digital data (messages, photo, video) compared to physical possessions [13]; how we might better support those who already devote significant effort and resources to reducing the impacts of their lives at home [14]; and how purchase, reuse and disposal of personal digital technology may relate to environmental concerns among young people [15].…”

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Exploring (un)sustainable growth of digital technologies in the home

Bates¹,

Lord²,

Knowles³

et al. 2015

Advances in Computer Science Research

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Abstract-HCI and Ubicomp research often centres around the support of humans interacting with digital technology. Despite this obvious focus, there seems to be less work on understanding how these digital technologies can lead to growth in use, dependence, and influence practices in everyday life. In this paper we discuss how digital technologies have been, and continue to be, adopted in domestic practices-and how the growth of interactions with various ecologies of digital technologies can lead to growth in use and energy consumption. We further the discussion within ICT4S and sustainable HCI on how to promote research that encourages sustainability as a core concern-socially, economically, and ecologically-emphasising that defining limits to growth are important when trying to affect change in sustainable directions. We echo calls for more significant sustainability research from HCI, and set out some avenues of design for moving in this direction.

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Fragmentation and transition

Cited by 29 publications

References 18 publications

Transitions in Digital Personhood

Transitions in Digital Personhood

Supporting the Design of Technology-Mediated Sharing Practices

Exploring (un)sustainable growth of digital technologies in the home

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