Gaze Patterns and the Temporal Organization of Multiple Activities in Mobile Smartphone Uses

Licoppe, Christian; Figeac, Julien

doi:10.1080/07370024.2017.1326008

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“…In much the same way that Larsen (2005) describes the family gaze, and how that is performed and embodied in photographic situations when doing tourism, we can see how the selfie is a performed and embodied practice that is sensitive to the local context in which it is produced. Here, we return to research that characterizes mobile phone use as a multiactivity, coproduced in concert with other activities (Brown et al, 2014; Licoppe & Figeac, 2013).…”

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“…In the two observations we have presented here, the individuals taking the images were in movement, one of them as a pedestrian and the other as a passenger on public transport. This means that they had to focus on both the activities on the screen and their own mobility (Licoppe & Figeac, 2013). The young woman walking and sending selfies had to also navigate among other pedestrians while she was engaged in the social interaction through her phone, and the person on public transport stayed attuned to the local environment and the various stops made by the tram while at the same time exchanging selfies over Snapchat.…”

Section: Selfies As Conversationmentioning

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Selfies in the wild: Studying selfie photography as a local practice

Weilenmann

Hillman

2019

Mobile Media & Communication

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Previous research on selfies has primarily focused on selfies as media products rather than as an activity. In this paper, we examine selfies as a situated practice, connecting the social media phenomenon to the local spaces where it is performed. Based on ethnographic studies of selfie photography, we present and discuss three aspects of selfies in the wild. First, we consider selfies as part of a larger photographic context and show how they are often taken in series with other genres of images. Second, we expand upon the notion of selfies as conversation and show how selfie photographers exchange messages with remote friends and followers while attending to the local environment. Third, we discuss socializing around selfies, examining how copresent friends socialize around the production of selfies. These findings show the importance of considering selfies beyond the online context, and highlight the many ways that selfies are interweaved with our everyday activities.

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Section: Selfies As Conversationmentioning

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Selfies in the wild: Studying selfie photography as a local practice

Weilenmann

Hillman

2019

Mobile Media & Communication

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“…While such portable set-up may provide rich and detailed data about the "natural" uses of smartphones, as in the case of mobile map-enhanced walks in urban public places (Laurier, Brown, & McGregor, 2015) or in museums (Brown, McGregor, & Laurier, 2013), it also gives access to all the information displayed on the screens. To be able to fully analyze smartphone usage patterns, we had to synchronize contextual recordings made with camera glasses with video recordings of screen activities collected with a specific screen-recording application (Licoppe & Figeac, 2017). Thus, video-ethnographic data presented in what follows is based on the combination of context-oriented recordings and smartphone screen captures (Figure 1).…”

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Video-ethnography of social media apps’ connection cues in public settings

Figeac

Chaulet

2018

Mobile Media & Communication

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This paper aims to analyze the uses of mobile social network services (mSNS) during daily commutes on the basis of a video ethnography conducted with 35 users of the Facebook app. This method is based on the combination of context-oriented recordings made with user-worn camera glasses and mobile screen video capture. These data reveal the way smartphone usage patterns tend to be organized according to notification functions (mSNS, SMS), a specific set of technical cues that mediatize social demand and promote social connectedness. Users manage these cues through a recurrent trend composed of a three-step sequence: they often start by using applications displaying notifications; they favor those that display social demands; and, among them, they prioritize these relational solicitations in accordance with social status or types of relationships. By examining the distribution of users' attention between urban environments and smartphone applications, this video-ethnography also highlights how these "checking habits" are organized according to a set of spatial cues and some daily commute characteristics, such as visual coordination with passengers in public transport. These technical cues mediatize a growing number of social demands that encourage users to keep their eyes focused on their smartphone's screen in public spaces. We argue that these technical cues create a temporary bubble effect and social isolation at a proximal scale, which mostly operate at the beginning of smartphone usage patterns.

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“…In these moments a possible shift in orientation between smartphone use and other activities is sequentially made most available. The regularity in which the interface makes these moments possible was considered a central theme in organizing multiactivity with smartphone use and other concurrent activities [21]. Another study of using public transport found gaze shifts away from the phone to be organized in relation to the sequential progression of the activity with the device.…”

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What Smartphones, Ethnomethodology, and Bystander Inaccessibility Can Teach Us About Better Design?

Mantere

2020

Human Computer Interaction and Emerging Technologies: Adjunct Proceedings From the INTERACT 2019 Workshops

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Smartphones, the ubiquitous mobile screens now normal parts of everyday social situations, have created a kind of ongoing natural experiment for social scientists. According to Garfinkel's ethnomethodology social action gets its meaning not only from its content but also through its context. Mobility, small screen size, and the habitual way of using smartphones ensure that, while offering the biggest variety of activities for the user, in comparison to other everyday items, smartphones offer the least cues to bystanders on what the user is actually doing and how long it might take. This 'bystander inaccessibility' handicaps shared understanding of the social context that the user and collocated others find themselves in. Added considerations and interactive effort in managing the situation is therefore required. Future design needs to relate to this basic building block of collocated interaction to not be met with discontent.

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Gaze Patterns and the Temporal Organization of Multiple Activities in Mobile Smartphone Uses

Cited by 22 publications

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Selfies in the wild: Studying selfie photography as a local practice

Selfies in the wild: Studying selfie photography as a local practice

Video-ethnography of social media apps’ connection cues in public settings

What Smartphones, Ethnomethodology, and Bystander Inaccessibility Can Teach Us About Better Design?

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