Ways of Walking: Understanding Walking's Implications for the Design of Handheld Technology Via a Humanistic Ethnographic Approach

Eslambolchilar, Parisa; Bødker, Mads; Chamberlain, Alan

doi:10.17011/ht/urn.201605192618

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“…While many studies have identified ICTs as tools of experience enhancement, less research has explored the way in which these physical items are 'needy', being fragile and personalised, as well as requiring constant maintenance (i.e. charging), peripheral items and a physical infrastructure of connectivity to support their usage (Eslambolchilar et al, 2016;Neuhofer et al, 2015;Paris et al, 2015). This care on its own can transform travel routes and routines and could be explored further as a salient influence on travel behaviour and consumption.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Travel connectivity

Magasic

Gretzel

2020

Tourist Studies

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The use of information and communication technology (ICT) devices has been recognised as a significant component of travel experiences. However, the portrayal of internet connectivity as a binary entity within literature has overlooked the significant experiential breadth that exists within the state of being connected. Drawing on the contexts of roaming and the digital divide, this article demonstrates the variable and dynamic nature of connectivity on a worldwide basis, thus highlighting the variety of states of connectivity which may be encountered by tourists. Research was conducted using an autoethnographic methodology employed during a 3-month period of multi-country fieldwork. As its research findings, the article first defines travel connectivity and presents a travel connectivity typology featuring four principal modes based on network quality and range. Second, impacts of each mode of connectivity upon the travel experience are discussed.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Travel connectivity

Magasic

Gretzel

2020

Tourist Studies

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“…Finally, surprises are perspectival: what is ‘surprising’ to an observer or a reader depends on their background assumptions and their openness to challenging them. Consequently, it was necessary to actively ‘construct’ and narrate the surprise to a reader by drawing on first‐hand observation (Eslambolchilar, Bødker, & Chamberlain, ; Prasopoulou, ) and story‐telling (Davison, ) approaches. However, this does not pose a threat to validity because the new understanding reached through the problematization process stands on its own conceptual coherence, rather than on the initiating surprising observation.…”

Section: Research Process: Problematizing the Surprisementioning

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Beyond ‘mobility’: A new understanding of moving with technology

Hafermalz

Johnston

Hovorka

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Information Systems Journal

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We report a surprising experience with mobile technology: the lead author found herself seeing and acting differently while running over part of her usual running track with the exercise-tracking application 'Strava' on her phone, even without focal attention to the app. We apply the method of problematization to a detailed empirical account of this experience, in conjunction with a literature analysis of taken-forgranted assumptions underpinning research on 'mobile technology use'. This reveals that, while the relationship of attention, perception, movement and technology was a key element of the surprise, these themes are not well accounted for in current IS literature. In response, we employ William Gibson's ecological theory of visual perception to reinterpret the empirical account and thereby build a new understanding of the human plus mobile technology that we term movingwith-technology. We introduce to IS: moving-with-technology as a new analytical perspective; the new phenomena of digital sub-species, digital-niches and asynchronous co-location; and stimulus for new ecologically oriented 'mobile methods'.Moving-with-technology also has practical implications for urban planners who are using data from digital trace-making tools such as Strava in their decision-making, thereby generating what we call ecological feedback loops.

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“…It seemingly eludes definition, while having profound effect". This move to the expressive 'instrumental' nature of landscapes to support ethnographic practice is where our interdisciplinary research resides, as a way to understand the more humanistic influences on musical instrument design (intuition) [5].…”

Section: Ethnography: a Notementioning

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A Landscape of Design: Interaction, Interpretation and the Development of Experimental Expressive Interfaces

Chamberlain

Bødker

Roure

et al. 2018

Human-Computer Interaction. Theories, Methods, and Human Issues

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This short paper presents the initial research insights of an ongoing research project that focuses upon understanding the role of landscape, its use as a resource for designing interfaces for musical expression, and as a tool for leveraging ethnographic understandings about space, place, design and musical expression. We briefly discuss the emerging research and reasoning behind our approach, the site that we are focusing on, our participatory methodology and conceptual designs. This innovative research is envisaged as something that can engage and interest the conference participants, encourage debate and act as an exploratory platform, which will in turn inform our research, practice and design.

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Ways of Walking: Understanding Walking's Implications for the Design of Handheld Technology Via a Humanistic Ethnographic Approach

Cited by 15 publications

References 29 publications

Travel connectivity

Travel connectivity

Beyond ‘mobility’: A new understanding of moving with technology

A Landscape of Design: Interaction, Interpretation and the Development of Experimental Expressive Interfaces

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