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’.
Hazas, MikeLancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom(Swepub:uu)mikha822
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Clear, AdrianLancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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Bates, OliverLancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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Whittam, RosalindLancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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Morley, JanineLancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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Friday, AdrianLancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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Lancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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Ingår i:Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsNew York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), s. 2729-27389781450331456