The meaning of objects in environmental transitions: Experiences of chinese students in the united states

Bih, Herng-Dar

doi:10.1016/s0272-4944(05)80066-0

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“…This suggests that: In sum, possessions are an integral component of the extended self and should serve multiple roles during liminal transitions. These include the establishment and maintenance of the extended self (Belk, 1988), preservation of a sense of past (Belk, 1991), and as facilitators of the construction of a new self (Bih, 1992;Joy & Dholakia, 1991;Mehta & Belk, 1991).…”

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Exploring the relationships among liminal transitions, symbolic consumption, and the extended self

1997

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Exploring the relationships among liminal transitions, symbolic consumption, and the extended self

1997

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“…Although they differ in many aspects, each of these formulations emphasized the fundamental theoretical perspective of situated cognition. 5 The few empirical applications of situated cognition include research studies adhered to a strong Gibsonian tradition (e.g., Bih, 1992;Oudejans et al, 1996). ''core urban area'' 6 of Shanghai, China.…”

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A Situated Understanding of Residents' Caretaking Attitudes Toward Shared Spaces in Three High-Rise Gated Developments in Shanghai

XuFang

2015

Ecopsychology

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In a residential development that incorporates collective property rights, there are interior and exterior shared spaces collectively owned and used by multiple residents. These shared spaces defy a stark public-private division. Applying the perspective of situated cognition in a case-oriented qualitative analysis, this study investigated residents' caretaking attitudes about shared spaces in three high-rise gated developments in Shanghai, China. Qualitative data was obtained from 61 long-term residents pertaining to situational environments, situated persons, person-environment transactions, and environmental perception and meanings. Results revealed that the entanglement of residents and environmental settings in these developments defined different types of holistic person-environment units, which further implied different caring attitudes. The investigation also demonstrated diagrammatic data coding and displays as effective case-oriented analytical techniques to present and compare ecological units of analysis. Discussion articulates a holistic application of situated cognition in environment-behavior research.

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“…Material culture examines the spaces people inhabit as autobiographical representations [12], the meaning of objects in people's lives [6], how mundane objects become evocative of life events offering comfort during important life changes [2,30], and how heirlooms provide a finegrained understanding even of a distant past [18].…”

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Petrelli

Hoven

Whittaker

2009

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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ABSTRACT'Lifelogging' technology makes it possible to amass digital data about every aspect of our everyday lives. Instead of focusing on such technical possibilities, here we investigate the way people compose long-term mnemonic representations of their lives. We asked 10 families to create a time capsule, a collection of objects used to trigger remembering in the distant future. Our results show that contrary to the lifelogging view, people are less interested in exhaustively digitally recording their past than in reconstructing it from carefully selected cues that are often physical objects. Time capsules were highly expressive and personal, many objects were made explicitly for inclusion, however with little object annotation. We use these findings to propose principles for designing technology that supports the active reconstruction of our future past.

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The meaning of objects in environmental transitions: Experiences of chinese students in the united states

Cited by 39 publications

References 13 publications

Exploring the relationships among liminal transitions, symbolic consumption, and the extended self

Exploring the relationships among liminal transitions, symbolic consumption, and the extended self

A Situated Understanding of Residents' Caretaking Attitudes Toward Shared Spaces in Three High-Rise Gated Developments in Shanghai

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