The role of ICTs in everyday mobile lives

Abstract

Research highlightsICTs are incidental rather than instrumental in shaping social practice and travel ICTs contribute to and compensate for unpredictability in activity scheduling Absorption of ICT-related practices into lifestyles prevails over creative behaviour *Research HighlightsThe role of ICTs in everyday mobile lives

The Role of Mobile Applications in the Consumer Experience at Music Festivals

“…the coordination of day-to-day life (Ling, 2004), allowing for increased spontaneity and fluidity in the organization of meetings with other people and the things we need (Campbell & Kwak, 2011;Kwan, 2007;Line, Jain, & Lyons, 2011;Ling, 2004;Neutens, Schwanen, & Witloz, 2011). This will be true of the festival context, which is attracting the attention of computer scientists keen to provide services to a captive audience of young consumers (see, e.g., Driver & Clarke, 2008).…”

Developing a smartphone app to enhance Oxfam's supply chain visibility

“…Smartphone use is starting to soften the traditionally close connection between activity, place and time, affording users a more spontaneous negotiation of meetings and transactions within their daily activity (Wang, Park, and Fesenmaier 2011). Because of their ability to allow connection with everyone in a community all the time, as a socio-technical device, they greatly enhance how users engage with place and time (Wilken 2008) and impact on the spatial and temporal organisation of our activity scheduling and wider social interactions (Campbell and Kwak 2011;Line, Jain, and Lyons 2011;Neutens, Schwanen, and Witloz 2011). In a personal sense, the smartphone is now enabling more negotiated scheduling of activities to better cater for our dynamic needs and circumstances.…”

A troublesome transport challenge? Working round the school run

“…The paper reports on research that investigated how transport problems are articulated by individuals and the potential for innovation with ICTs to emerge from such transport problems (see also Line et al, 2010). Conceptually, women's mobility appears to throw up various challenges and questions around issues of economic and environmental sustainability and social equity, which Hanson (2010) argues have yet to be fully debated.…”

“…'bottom up' innovation by users of the transport system, as opposed to top-down innovation from Government or the commercial sector) as solutions to transport problems i (see also Line, et al, 2010;Lyons, et al, forthcoming 2011). The aim of this research was, firstly, to understand how individuals identify transport problems; secondly, their relationship with ICTs as solution tools; and thirdly, the opportunity for innovation (see Line, et al 2010).…”

“…'bottom up' innovation by users of the transport system, as opposed to top-down innovation from Government or the commercial sector) as solutions to transport problems i (see also Line, et al, 2010;Lyons, et al, forthcoming 2011). The aim of this research was, firstly, to understand how individuals identify transport problems; secondly, their relationship with ICTs as solution tools; and thirdly, the opportunity for innovation (see Line, et al 2010). Based on the evidence in the literature, as outlined below, women who work and have children often have complex time-space needs and constraints, which gave rise to the assumption that women juggling work and home-life might be affected by i See www.ideasintransit.org for further information.…”