Geographies on the Move: A Practical and Theoretical Approach to the Mobile Interview

Finlay, Jessica; Bowman, Jay A.

doi:10.1080/00330124.2016.1229623

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“…While sharing their views, participants can directly reflect on their surroundings (i.e., the park) and their relationship to it. It is also a time- and resource efficient way of collecting information [30]. Participants received a simple hand towel and cap as appreciation for their time.…”

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The Park Prescription Study: Development of a community-based physical activity intervention for a multi-ethnic Asian population

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Waters

et al. 2019

PLoS ONE

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This mixed-methods study aims to inform the development of a ‘Park Prescription’ intervention, including face-to-face counseling on physical activity and park use and providing weekly structured exercise sessions in the park to promote physical activity. Participants aged 40–65 years were recruited from regional health screening events in Singapore where they completed a questionnaire (N = 97) and consented to focus group (FG) participation (N = 16). The questionnaire assessed current park use, and the type, duration, and intensity of park-based activities that would be of interest. FGs explored the barriers and facilitators of physical activity (in parks). Short interviews (N = 16) with ‘doers’, i.e., people already engaging in park-based physical activity, identified motivational factors and ways to overcome common barriers. Participants acknowledged the health benefits of parks and valued them because of their pleasant landscapes, greenery and facilities. However, few participants engaged in physical activity at the parks, because they were too busy or too tired. Participants mostly indicated doing informal activities, such as walking, cycling or playing traditional Asian games when using the parks for exercise. A variety of low-to-moderate intensity park-based activities such as walking, cycling or aerobics were of interest to participants who expressed the willingness to engage in structured exercise sessions on weekday evenings or weekend mornings. Strategies to increase physical activity in parks included: encourage planning, create social support, identify alternatives for bad weather, improve proximity/accessibility to parks and park safety. The effectiveness of the Park Prescription intervention in promoting physical activity, park use, as well as physical and mental well-being will be tested in a one-year Randomized Controlled Trial.

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The Park Prescription Study: Development of a community-based physical activity intervention for a multi-ethnic Asian population

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Waters

et al. 2019

PLoS ONE

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“…JF and the research assistant individually wrote comprehensive notes within 24 hours to describe the interview setting, mobile interview route, participant behaviour, observed features, interactions and discussion. The mobile interviews enabled deeper investigation into the context of ageing: participants' biographies and everyday experiences framed by geography (Finlay and Bowman, 2017). Moving through space together revealed tacit knowledge and taken-for-granted practices of engaging with and connecting to one's local context.…”

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Ageing in the margins: expectations of and struggles for ‘a good place to grow old’ among low-income older Minnesotans

2018

Self Cite

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What constitutes a ‘good place to grow old’? This study aimed to characterise salient features of built and social environments that are essential to support low-income ageing residents. Seated and mobile interviews were conducted with community-dwelling older participants (aged 55–92, mean = 71 years) in three distinct socio-economic and geographic samples of the Minneapolis (Minnesota, United States of America) metropolitan area. The interviews prompted participants to evaluate their homes and neighbourhoods, and probed for particular socio-spatial characteristics that impact residential wellbeing. Qualitative thematic analyses focused on 38 individuals living in subsidised housing and homeless shelters. Four interrelated themes encompassed essential residential qualities: (a) safety and comfort, (b) service access, (c) social connection, and (d) stimulation. These broad ideals, when achieved, enabled participants to cultivate residential wellbeing and fulfilling place attachment. Analyses of the empirical data complicate theoretical assumptions by recognising unequal access to, irregular opportunities for and potential dangers of place attachment. Rich descriptions of participant homelessness, health hazards, crime, lack of supportive infrastructure and social isolation illustrate how place attachment is not inherently positive or necessarily attainable; rather, it is problematic and can involve risk. This article extends geographical gerontology's address of socio-spatial inequalities by focusing on disadvantaged ageing individuals.

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“…Our study has tested a go-along observation as a data collection method with a mobile application that has allowed recording of qualitative in-depth and place-specific data (Finlay & Bowman, 2017), with information gathered while visitors were actually moving around (Kusenbach, 2003). This type of qualitative data collection's technique has been used surprisingly rarely in tourism movement studies, although the spatial information produced by tracking and recording tools could also be useful for urban tourism planning.…”

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Cruisers in the City of Helsinki: staging the mobility of cruise passengers

Paananen

Minoia

2018

Tourism Geographies

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International cruise passengers moving in urban destinations have particular time limitation that can make enabling and disabling elements of mobility meaningful on the quality of their visit. Identifying these elements is essential to improve their independent movement. Based on a staging mobilities framework that considers the dimensions of physical settings, material spaces, design (PMD), social interactions (SI) and embodied performances (EP) in situ, the research has analysed location-specific information in Helsinki, a popular port of call in the Baltic Sea. The study has used go-along observations and mobile application in data collection. The produced dataset was analysed by combining GIS-methods and content analyses. As a result, five categories were identified under the dimension of PMD: wayfinding tools, unexpected situations, lack of rest spots and walkability. Categories identified under the dimension of SI were local people, service providers and travel companions, and other tourists. Categories identified under the dimension of EP were traffic behaviour, occasioned activities, sense of direction, planning, and time-related anxiety. Urban destinations such as Helsinki can apply these results in practice, to make the movement of independently moving cruise passengers as effortless as possible, contributing to a better experience of the city space for both tourists and other city users. The proposed methodology could also be used to analyse other mobility-related phenomena.

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Geographies on the Move: A Practical and Theoretical Approach to the Mobile Interview

Cited by 82 publications

References 32 publications

The Park Prescription Study: Development of a community-based physical activity intervention for a multi-ethnic Asian population

The Park Prescription Study: Development of a community-based physical activity intervention for a multi-ethnic Asian population

Ageing in the margins: expectations of and struggles for ‘a good place to grow old’ among low-income older Minnesotans

Cruisers in the City of Helsinki: staging the mobility of cruise passengers

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