Away and (Dis)connection: Reconsidering the use of digital technologies in light of long-term outdoor activities
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Away and (Dis)connection : Reconsidering the use of digital technologies in light of long-term outdoor activities. / Helms, Karey; Ferreira, Pedro; Brown, Barry; Lampinen, Airi.
In: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 3, No. GROUP, 230, 12.2019.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Away and (Dis)connection
T2 - Reconsidering the use of digital technologies in light of long-term outdoor activities
AU - Helms, Karey
AU - Ferreira, Pedro
AU - Brown, Barry
AU - Lampinen, Airi
N1 - Funding Information: We thank our interviewees for their time and perspectives. We also thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful and generous comments on the manuscript. This work has been supported by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research project RIT15-0046. Publisher Copyright: © 2019 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM.
PY - 2019/12
Y1 - 2019/12
N2 - We present a study of long-term outdoor activities, based on altogether 34 interviews with 19 participants. Our goal was not only to explore these enjoyable experiences, but more broadly to examine how technology use was recontextualized 'away' from the everyday. Outdoor activities are commonly presented as an escape from our technology-infused world. In contrast, our interviews reveal experiences that are heavily dependent on technology, both digital and not. However, digital technology - and in particular the mobile phone - is reconfigured when taken out of its ordinary, often urban and indoor, context. We first present a diversity of 'aways' during outdoor activities by depicting cherished freedoms and interpersonal preferences. We then describe how participants managed connection and disconnection while away and upon coming back. To conclude, we discuss how constructions of away can support more purposeful engagements with digital technology, and how pointed (dis)connection can be useful for technology design also in non-outdoor settings.
AB - We present a study of long-term outdoor activities, based on altogether 34 interviews with 19 participants. Our goal was not only to explore these enjoyable experiences, but more broadly to examine how technology use was recontextualized 'away' from the everyday. Outdoor activities are commonly presented as an escape from our technology-infused world. In contrast, our interviews reveal experiences that are heavily dependent on technology, both digital and not. However, digital technology - and in particular the mobile phone - is reconfigured when taken out of its ordinary, often urban and indoor, context. We first present a diversity of 'aways' during outdoor activities by depicting cherished freedoms and interpersonal preferences. We then describe how participants managed connection and disconnection while away and upon coming back. To conclude, we discuss how constructions of away can support more purposeful engagements with digital technology, and how pointed (dis)connection can be useful for technology design also in non-outdoor settings.
KW - Away
KW - Disconnection
KW - Mobile phone
KW - Nature
KW - Non-use
KW - Outdoors
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85076702254&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3361111
DO - 10.1145/3361111
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85076702254
VL - 3
JO - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
JF - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
SN - 2573-0142
IS - GROUP
M1 - 230
ER -
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