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Tactics for homing in mobile life: a fieldwalk study of extremely mobile people

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Marianne Graves Petersen,

Aviaja Borup Lynggaard,

Peter Gall Krogh,

Ida Wentzel WintherAuthors Info & Claims

MobileHCI '10: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services

Pages 265 - 274

https://doi.org/10.1145/1851600.1851646

Published: 07 September 2010 Publication History

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For many people home making is an activity, which extends beyond a single house. We introduce the terminology of Homing as the act of home making, when in a primary home, secondary home or more temporary spaces. By point of departure in existing literature on home making and through ethnographic studies of extremely mobile people we identify general tactics for homing. We present the identified tactics and show how people deploy not only one but several tactics in their intention of making a homely feeling despite not being in their primary home.

We review the mobile technologies currently in use and argue that several of the tactics identified are currently not well supported. We discuss how technology design can learn from this study through pointing to the potential in designing mobile technologies to better support these unsupported tactics.

We consider the tactics as a tool for deeper understanding of mobile practices and thus informing the design of more relevant future technologies for people engaged in a mobile lifestyle.

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MobileHCI '10: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services

September 2010

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ISBN:9781605588353

DOI:10.1145/1851600

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