Tactics for homing in mobile life

Petersen, Marianne Graves; Lynggaard, Aviaja Borup; Krogh, Peter Gall; Winther, Ida Wentzel

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“…For the purpose of our study, the most relevant have to do with work, home, and technological mobility with reference to a single mobile entity (in the case of our study, the vanlifers). Petersen et al's ethnographic study described how a variety of people with mobile lifestyles use different tactics to create home-like spaces for themselves [33], suggesting that the concept of "home" does not exclude a highly mobile lifestyle. Although the paper did not include any people who lived in a home that moves, if people are able to feel at home in multiple locations, then vanlifers may use similar techniques in their vehicles, as well as at locations they visit.…”

Section: Technology In Mobilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(P3) Homesteading in vanlife today is a process of trial and error. In addition to its practical aspects, we noted that when vanlifers set up homesteads, technology artifacts aided the process of homing [33]. Technology should remove the error and allow vanlifers to move between different homesteads and homestead rapidly, based on their personal preferences.…”

Section: #Vanlife -A Community At the Cross Roads Of Technology And Ingenuitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Previous work in HCI has investigated non-traditional homes, either as new areas for design [10,11,43] or to look at the motivations and implications of nomadic homes or work practices [8,15,33,34,39]. For example, Rossitto et al [35] investigated literature around nomadic cultures, and noted a requirement for more diverse papers beyond just nomadic work.…”

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Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Research on how lived experiences with technology intersect with home and work are core themes within HCI. Prior work has primarily focused on conventional life and work in Western countries. However, the unconventional is becoming conventional-several rising subcultures are coming into prominence due to socio-economic pressures, aided by social media. One example-#vanlife-is now practised by an estimated three million people in North America. #vanlife combines travel, home, and work by their occupants (vanlifers) living full-time in cargo vans that they usually convert themselves into living spaces. We present a portrait of vanlifers' current technology practices gleaned through~200 hours of fieldwork and interviews. Following a thematic analysis of our data, we identified unique opportunities for integrating technology across culture, design, homesteading, offline organization, and gaming. We have distilled these opportunities into eleven provocations to inspire critical design and informed inquiry for technological interventions for #vanlife. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Field studies; Collaborative interaction; Empirical studies in HCI .

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Section: Technology In Mobilitymentioning

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Section: #Vanlife -A Community At the Cross Roads Of Technology And Ingenuitymentioning

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“…• Homing -In the process of making workplaces away from home, places can also become subject to 'homing'. Petersen, Lynggaard, Krogh, & Winther (2010) and Lynggaard (2011), describe seven different examples ranging from practices that allow people to make themselves at home in a place, such as territorializing (claiming space for one's activities) or bubbling (excluding disruptive context with earphones and screens) to practices that maintain a connection with home in temporary workplaces, for example through rhythming (maintaining routines and temporal schedules rooted in the home). Elliot and Urry (2010) also discuss a variety of technologically augmented practices that allow mobile workers to participate in the emotional and practical labour of home--making, including 'affect storage and retrieval', 'portable personhood', and doing 'love online' with children and partners (see also Walsh 2009).…”

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Nomadic Work: Romance and Reality. A Response to Barbara Czarniawska’s ‘Nomadic Work as Life-Story Plot’

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2013

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This article takes departure in Barbara Czarniawska's discussion of 'Nomadic Work as Life--Story Plot'. It contextualises her analysis of actors' interpretations of nomadic work with a bi--focal review of the ambiguous realities of these phenomena. Firstly, an examination of key aspects of the socio--economic and political context of nomadic work in global neoliberal economies reveals precarious conditions that cloud romantic interpretations of nomadicity. Secondly, a review of studies of everyday practices of nomadic work shows how neoliberal, but also alternative futures are enacted through creative appropriation of collaborative technologies. One example is the work of digital 'disaster deck' volunteers and its potential for the mobilization of 'rapid, highly localized assistance' through closer collaboration between a distributed crowd, local communities, and official emergency responders (Starbird and Palen 2013). This and other examples suggest emergent new practices and politics of dwelling in mobility that are focused on sociality and collaboration, straddling virtual and physical commons. The twin critique developed in this response can augment narrative analysis to inform more integrated CSCW innovation that challenges the 'brave new world of work'.

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“…In this thesis I focus on people mobility, and more specifically, I will primarily outline everyday mobility, which according to Brewer and Dourish is the patterns of connection and spatial organization that arise around us, as a consequence of movement of everyday life [12]. This thesis does not aim to contribute to HCI research that focuses on mobility off the ground, e.g., airline business travel [35], or on highly mobile, nomadic, mobility [41,91] or the transportation of goods [6].…”

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Rural and Urban Mobility: Studying Digital Technology Use and Interaction

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Mobility is central to our everyday lives, for commuting, for combatting a sedentary lifestyle, for leisure, etc. Digital technologies are designed and targeted to support people mobility, from travel planners and real-time traffic information to enabling shared modes and on-demand mobility, but we need empirical knowledge about in what ways these digital technologies support mobility. In particular, little HCI research is concerned with how digital technologies and new modes of mobility impact mobility for rural and urban contexts. This thesis investigates mobility in rural and urban contexts by studying the use and interaction with digital technologies for mobility. 1) to characterize rural and urban mobility. 2) to illustrate and discuss how digital technologies support people mobility. 3) to focus on how studies of mobility and digital technology use for rural and urban areas can be planned and carried out. The contribution of this thesis is based on four papers that present four user studies in the field. Whereof two paper contributions portray two matters of rural mobility: how on-demand mobility services attempt to accommodate the last mile problem and integration of digital technologies for mobility. Two papers depict urban mobility on two topics: digital technologies for moving volunteers with first aid competencies purposefully and promptly to nearby cardiac arrests in public places and how shared micromobility adapts to hybrid urban mobility. The empirical findings of this PhD project demonstrate that rural mobility is often characterized by car-based mobility. A low population density impacts the potential demand and thus a high frequency of public transportation is not profitable. Mobility service gaps between rural dwellers and transportation hubs referred to as the first and last mile are challenging to accommodate. Urban mobility is characterized by having an abundance of mobility options, private, public, and shared mobility modes are perceived as highly flexible, although adversely the many mobility options often result in congestion. New modes of hybrid micromobility have yet to establish their purpose and place in the urban mobility landscape. I propose that digital technologies can support rural and urban mobility through integration across public and private modes of mobility, creating flexible ad-hoc routes, enabling shared modes of mobility and mobilizing people. Crucial to success is that mobility information is transparently, dynamically, and timely communicated and that reliability of mobility is high. Studying digital mobility using in-situ methods can be carried out if mobility can be planned or is highly visible, but is not suitable for all mobility contexts. The PhD stipend that made this thesis effort possible is financed partly by the DiCyPS research centre, funded by Innovation Fund Denmark. Also partly financed by the Danish north region transport authority: Nordjyllands Trafikselskab (NT).

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Tactics for homing in mobile life

Cited by 31 publications

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Provocations from #vanlife

Provocations from #vanlife

Nomadic Work: Romance and Reality. A Response to Barbara Czarniawska’s ‘Nomadic Work as Life-Story Plot’

Rural and Urban Mobility: Studying Digital Technology Use and Interaction

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