Demand in my pocket: mobile devices and the data connectivity marshalled in support of everyday practice

Carolynne Lord; Mike Hazas; Adrian Clear; Oliver Bates; Rosalind Whittam; Janine Morley; Adrian Friday

doi:10.1145/2702123.2702162

Demand in my pocket: mobile devices and the data connectivity marshalled in support of everyday practice

Carolynne Lord, Mike Hazas, Adrian Clear, Oliver Bates, Rosalind Whittam, Janine Morley, Adrian Friday

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Abstract

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'.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI '15 Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	ACM
Pages	2729-2738
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-3145-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702162
Publication status	Published - 18 Apr 2015
Event	33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 18 Apr 2015 → 23 Apr 2015

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Conference	33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	18/04/15 → 23/04/15

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Lord, C, Hazas, M, Clear, A, Bates, O, Whittam, R, Morley, J & Friday, A 2015, Demand in my pocket: mobile devices and the data connectivity marshalled in support of everyday practice. in CHI '15 Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, pp. 2729-2738, 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 18/04/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702162

Demand in my pocket: mobile devices and the data connectivity marshalled in support of everyday practice. / Lord, Carolynne; Hazas, Mike; Clear, Adrian et al.
CHI '15 Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2015. p. 2729-2738.

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