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TY - GEN
T1 - Demand in my pocket
T2 - mobile devices and the data connectivity marshalled in support of everyday practice
AU - Lord, Carolynne
AU - Hazas, Mike
AU - Clear, Adrian
AU - Bates, Oliver
AU - Morley, Janine
AU - Friday, Adrian
N1 - © ACM, 2015. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in CHI '15 Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems http://dx.doi.org/2702123.2702162
PY - 2015/4
Y1 - 2015/4
N2 - This paper empirically explores the role that mobile devices have come to play in everyday practice, and how this links to demand for network connectivity and online services. After a preliminary device-logging period, thirteen participants were interviewed about how they use their iPhones or iPads. Our findings build a picture of how, through use of such devices, a variety of daily practices have come to depend upon a working data connection, which sometimes surges, but is at least always a trickle. This aims to inform the sustainable design of applications, services and infrastructures for smartphones and tablets. By focusing our analysis in this way, we highlight a little-explored challenge for sustainable HCI and discuss ideas for (re)designing around the principle of 'light-weight' data 'needs'.
AB - This paper empirically explores the role that mobile devices have come to play in everyday practice, and how this links to demand for network connectivity and online services. After a preliminary device-logging period, thirteen participants were interviewed about how they use their iPhones or iPads. Our findings build a picture of how, through use of such devices, a variety of daily practices have come to depend upon a working data connection, which sometimes surges, but is at least always a trickle. This aims to inform the sustainable design of applications, services and infrastructures for smartphones and tablets. By focusing our analysis in this way, we highlight a little-explored challenge for sustainable HCI and discuss ideas for (re)designing around the principle of 'light-weight' data 'needs'.
U2 - 10.1145/2702123.2702162
DO - 10.1145/2702123.2702162
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 9781450331456
SP - 2729
EP - 2738
BT - CHI '15 Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - ACM
CY - New York
ER -