Habitele: mobile technologies reshaping urban life

Boullier, Dominique

doi:10.7213/urbe.06.001.ed02

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“…Here Sal gathers information about her kids, who woke up 15 and 20 minutes before her, through engagement with the computational objects that constitute her standard assemblage of devicesher habit ele (Boullier, 2014). Notably, this habit ele includes augmented features of her home: windows that both reveal and display.…”

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Into the archive of ubiquitous computing: the data perfect tense and the historicization of the present

Seberger

2021

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PurposeThis paper theorizes ubiquitous computing as a novel configuration of the archive. Such a configuration is characterized by shifts in agency underlying archival mechanics and a pronounced rhythmic diminution of such mechanics in which the user's experiential present tense is rendered fundamentally historical. In doing so, this paper troubles the relationship between: archival mechanics such as appraisal, accession and access; the archive as a site of historical knowledge production and the pervasiveness of data-driven daily life.Design/methodology/approachBy employing conceptual analysis, I analyze a classic vision of ubiquitous computing to describe the historicization of the present tense in an increasingly computerized world. The conceptual analysis employed here draws on an interdisciplinary set of literature from library and information science, philosophy and computing fields such as human-computer interaction (HCI) and ubiquitous computing.FindingsI present the concept of the data perfect tense, which is derived from the future perfect tense: the “will have had” construction. It refers to a historicized, data-driven and fundamentally archival present tense characterizing the user's lived world in which the goal of action is to have had created data for future unspecified use. The data perfect reifies ubiquitous computing as an archive, or a site of historical knowledge production predicated on sets of potential statements derived from data generated, appraised, acquisitioned and made accessible through and by means of pervasive “smart” objects.Originality/valueThis paper provides foundational consideration of ubiquitous computing as a configuration of the archive through the analysis of its temporalities: a rhythmic diminution that renders users' experiential present tenses as fundamentally historical, constructed through the agency of smart devices. In doing so, it: contributes to ongoing work within HCI seeking to understand the relationship between HCI and history; introduces concepts relevant to the analysis of novel technological ecologies in terms of archival theory; and constitutes preliminary interdisciplinary steps towards highlighting the relevance of theories of the archive and archival mechanics for critiquing sociotechnical concerns such as surveillance capitalism.

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Into the archive of ubiquitous computing: the data perfect tense and the historicization of the present

Seberger

2021

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“…(Kalba, ) The importance of mobile devices is, however, being increasingly recognised with articles such as Le Figaro Magazine's “The 10 revolutions that will change our lives” (Dore, Gonin, Etienne, Betti‐Cusso, & Grandmaison, ). French academics are increasingly focusing on mobile devices; when describing the concept of “habitele,” linking space, psychology, philosophy, personal environments and new technologies, Dominique Bouillier (professor of Sociology at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, “Sciences Po,” Paris) highlights how the links between social worlds produced by mobile devices “create a new web of relationships, some of them supposedly private, others deliberately public, these boundaries being more and more blurred and challenging the rules of privacy” (Boullier, ).…”

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Mobile devices, learning and clinical workplaces: Medical student use of smartphones in Parisian hospitals

Phelps

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Chauffeté-Manillier³

et al. 2016

Brit J Educational Tech

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Mobile devices are ubiquitous worldwide, including in hospitals. “Just in time” learning provided by these devices is important for students. We investigated current use of, and learning with, smartphones and other mobile devices by medical students in Parisian hospitals. A survey with quantitative and qualitative items previously used with students from an Australian medical school was translated to French and adapted. The voluntary survey was delivered online to Université Paris Descartes students. A total 854 medical students from across the final 5 years of the program completed the survey. The mean age was 22 years and 90% identified as French, matching the demographic pattern of the student body. Of 976 devices used by these students, 43% were iPhones and 32% another smartphone. Students accessed the Internet regularly or often, more for medically relevant than unrelated information—49% versus 16.5%. Almost half of respondents reported never accessing social media during clinical placements. Students agreed they used mobile devices for improving learning, knowledge and skills, but less for timetabling and communication. Reactions of supervisors, patients and families were concerning. Only 3.3% of respondents did not use a mobile device in clinical settings. These findings have implications for Francophone and all health professional schools.

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“…As they adopt this mobile technology, people bring with them a whole ecosystem of data. Dominique Boullier (2014) uses the word ‘habitele’ for the invisible envelope formed by this ecosystem of information. The ‘habitele’ is a form of dynamic interface which facilitates the coupling of two types of mobility which were previously distinct because asynchronous: physical exploration of place and digital navigation on the Web .…”

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How can the use of a mobile application change the course of a sightseeing tour? A question of pace, gaze and information processing

Calvignac

Smolinski

2019

Tourist Studies

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When we use a smartphone as we move about, we see our surroundings in a different way, adopting new practices to combine physical exploration of place with digital navigation on the Web. This article seeks to identify how consulting digital information as we go along modifies our behaviour. Specifically, we will focus on the use of a mobile application dedicated to the presentation of a tourist site. Our exploratory study is based on a comparison of two groups of visitors: the first group was provided with a printed tourist guide, and the second had the same guide plus a smartphone with a tourist guide application. For the purposes of comparison, the visitors were followed step by step (their movements were tracked by GPS) and click by click (the application recorded the user’s browsing history). At the end of the tour, participants were also invited to comment on their experience, in semi-structured interviews. The results of the study suggest that the use of a smartphone while sightseeing modifies significantly our walking pace, the number of halts and slowdowns we make, and also the type of circuit we follow. Using the smartphone leads visitors to follow more carefully the itinerary proposed and, as a result, to explore the world with greater application

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Habitele: mobile technologies reshaping urban life

Cited by 10 publications

References 4 publications

Into the archive of ubiquitous computing: the data perfect tense and the historicization of the present

Into the archive of ubiquitous computing: the data perfect tense and the historicization of the present

Mobile devices, learning and clinical workplaces: Medical student use of smartphones in Parisian hospitals

How can the use of a mobile application change the course of a sightseeing tour? A question of pace, gaze and information processing

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