The Frustrations and Benefits of Mobile Device Usage in the Home when Co-Present with Family Members
Erick Odour, Carman Neustaedter, William Odom, Anthony Tang, Niala Moallem, Melanie Tory, and Pourang Irani. (2016). The Frustrations and Benefits of Mobile Device Usage in the Home when Co-Present with Family Members. In DIS 2016: Proceedings of the ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems in 2016, 1315–1327. Notes: Honourable Mention - Top 5% of all submissions. Acceptance: 108/418 - 26%.
Abstract
Mobile devices have begun to raise questions around the potential for overuse when in the presence of family or friends. As such, we conducted a diary and interview study to understand how people use mobile devices in the presence of others at home, and how this shapes their behavior and household dynamics. Results show that family members become frustrated when others do non-urgent activities on their phones in the presence of others. Yet people often guess at what others are doing because of the personal nature of mobile devices. In some cases, people developed strategies to provide a greater sense of activity awareness to combat the problem. Mobile phone usage was sometimes perceived as beneficial by providing a mechanism for needed disengagement from family members. These findings suggest several opportunities for redesigning mobile device software to mitigate emergent frustrations, and open up new opportunities for nurturing social interactions among family members.
Materials
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BibTeX
@inproceedings{neustaedter2016mobiledevicesathome,
author = {Odour, Erick and Neustaedter, Carman and Odom, William and Tang, Anthony and Moallem, Niala and Tory, Melanie and Irani, Pourang},
booktitle = {DIS 2016: Proceedings of the ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems in 2016},
title = {The Frustrations and Benefits of Mobile Device Usage in the Home when Co-Present with Family Members},
type = {conference},
pdfurl = {http://hcitang.org/papers/2016-dis2016-mobile-device-use-at-home.pdf},
url = {http://www.dis2016.org/},
year = {2016},
acceptance = {108/418 - 26%},
notes = {Honourable Mention - Top 5% of all submissions},
pages = {1315-1327}
}