Municipal WiFi and interactive displays: Appropriation of new technologies in public urban spaces

Ylipulli, Johanna; Suopajärvi, Tiina; Ojala, Timo; Kostakos, Vassilis; Kukka, Hannu

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2013.08.037

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“…[3][35] [34]), the take-up of public interactive opportunities (e.g. [5] [48]) and locative media [47]. The work here brings these strands together, in the context of supporting an ageing demographic in a town where the challenges are different from those at the lively, cultural sites that attract most research.…”

Section: Place Location and Toolsmentioning

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The Meaning of Place in Supporting Sociality

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Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

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While social isolation in an ageing population is a concern in many locations, it is greater in towns where divisive local geography and declining investment conspire against meeting places and mutual awareness. This research into the design of location-based tools to support sociality asks whether embedded digital tools that make neighbourhood activities and/or people's movements more visible have the potential to increase serendipitous encounters and deepen a sense of community cohesion. Taking to the streets of a small town to explore if digital tools might improve the situation, we used participatory and provocation methods to inspire engagement with the theme and compare design concepts for sociality. Participants showed great passion for the town and its people, but also caution about publicly revealing even basic information, because of anticipated local consequences. They preferred an indirect approach.We use these insights to analyze "place" and discuss the specifics of designing for sociality in challenging contexts.

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Section: Place Location and Toolsmentioning

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The Meaning of Place in Supporting Sociality

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“…The content has changed over time: Some applications have been removed while new ones have been launched. The infrastructure was launched in 2009, and since then, many studies about the Open UBI Oulu case have been published (Kukka et al 2014;Ojala et al 2010;Suopajärvi et al 2012;Ylipulli et al 2014aYlipulli et al , 2014bYlipulli and Suopajärvi 2013). However, these studies did not provide a cultural analysis of the project and its associated conflicts.…”

Section: Open Ubi Oulu Casementioning

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“…The use rate of the public displays has slowly decreased over the years (c.f. Ylipulli et al 2014b), and negative comments have been vibrant on (social) media. From the perspective of the project, we consider the main stakeholder groups to be developers and users.…”

Section: Open Ubi Oulu Casementioning

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In sweet harmony or in bitter discord? How cultural values and stakeholder requirements shape and users read an urban computing technology

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Culture is, in many ways, implicated in and shapes technology design and use. Inspired by Stuart Hall's conception of encoding/decoding, we maintain that technological artefacts reflect the cultural values of their creators, while users, in their encounters with the technological artefacts, may decode those artefacts in various ways that are shaped by the users' cultural values. In this article, we apply this lens to study a decade-long urban computing project that took place in the wild. We focus on the project's development team and on how their cultural values shape technology design. We also acknowledge that such an urban computing project involves many other stakeholder groups that affect the course of events. In our analysis, we examine how these stakeholders shaped and interpreted the technology in question. Although the development project had a seemingly generic "for all" ethos, the various stakeholders pulled the focus in different directions. The trajectory of the project can be characterized as reacting to these competing influences-sometimes achieving fit, while other times resulting in conflicts. The contribution of this paper is a structured analysis and reflections on cultural issues in community technology design in the wild, with a focus on the role of the developers' cultural values and other stakeholders' technology-related requirements and interpretations. This study has implications for subsequent studies in the wild by framing them as fluid settings of a great variety of stakeholders with a multiplicity of values, requirements, and interpretations.

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“…Diversos estudos utilizaram este modelo de Carroll et al (2002), como os de Araújo (2013), Isika, Mendoza e Bosua (2015), Rahim e Alias (2006) e Ylipulli et al (2014).…”

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Apropriação de Mídias Sociais: uma Proposta de Modelo de Análise

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ResumoO presente artigo objetiva propor um modelo de análise do processo de apropriação de tecnologias de mídias sociais. Tal proposta baseia-se em estudos realizados sobre apropriação de tecnologias, processo de adaptação e ajuste destas de acordo com os interesses, necessidades e conveniências de quem as utiliza. O modelo busca identificar características peculiares no processo de apropriação de mídias sociais por empresas, englobando tanto os Fatores de Adoção, no primeiro estágio do processo, quanto os Fatores Intermediários, que envolvem a exploração e a adaptação da tecnologia (uso, portanto), até os Fatores Reforçadores, fundamentais para a consolidação da apropriação ou não e que ocorrem por ocasião da experiência. Para tanto, são apresentados modelos teóricos sobre o tema e, por fim, um modelo que permita observar e compreender a apropriação especificamente de mídias sociais por empresas usuárias, a partir do Modelo AbstractThe purpose of this article is to propose a model for analyzing the process of appropriation of social media technologies. This proposal is based on studies on the appropriation of technologies, the process of adaptation and adjustment of these according to the interests, needs and conveniences of those who use them. The model seeks to identify peculiar characteristics in the process of appropriation of social media by companies, covering both the Adoption Factors, in the first stage of the process, and the Intermediate Factors, which involve the exploration and adaptation of the technology (use, therefore), and Reinforcement factors, fundamental for the consolidation of the appropriation or not, and that occur during the experience. For this, theoretical models are presented on the subject and, finally, a model that allows to observe and to understand the appropriation specifically of the social media by the user companies, of the Model of Appropriation of Technology (MTA) of Carroll et al. (2002) andCarroll (2004).Keywords: Appropriation; Social Medias; Technology.Esta obra está licenciada sob uma Licença Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. INTRODUÇÃOAs décadas que abrangem o final do Século XX e o início do XXI têm sido pródigas no avanço da tecnologia em todas as áreas, mas com um forte destaque para as tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TIC). Tendo a Internet como ferramenta central, elas têm oferecido à sociedade uma grande quantidade de inovações, dando à área de sistemas de informação (SI) um dinamismo cada vez maior. Boa parte das primeiras pesquisas neste campo considerava que as tecnologias eram fixas, podendo ser mudadas apenas por seus desenvolvedores (CARROLL et al., 2001). Com o tempo, no entanto, foi-se percebendo que os usuários não apenas utilizavam as TIC como também as adaptavam e até as modificavam conforme suas necessidades, personalizando-as e usandoas para novos fins. Foi possível constatar, assim, que essas modificações levavam a uma disparidade entre os propósitos e objetivos de quem desenvolve a tecnologia e seu uso real (CARROLL et al., 2001). A esse ...

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Municipal WiFi and interactive displays: Appropriation of new technologies in public urban spaces

Cited by 58 publications

References 25 publications

The Meaning of Place in Supporting Sociality

The Meaning of Place in Supporting Sociality

In sweet harmony or in bitter discord? How cultural values and stakeholder requirements shape and users read an urban computing technology

Apropriação de Mídias Sociais: uma Proposta de Modelo de Análise

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