Walking & talking: probing the urban lived experience.

Stals, Shenando; Smyth, Michael; Ijsselsteijn, Wijnand

Abstract

With ubiquitous mobile computing devices spreading throughout the urban environment of everyday life, there is a growing need to better understand person-place relationships and how technology can play a role in this urban experience. To this end, we propose a mobile methodology called Walking & Talking, an observed walking tour with participants through the city, which makes it easy and motivating for them to discuss their personal relationships with a place. The paper will describe a case study where the method was successfully applied to elicit rich, contextualized and intimate data, making it a useful research tool for the fields of urban interaction design and mobile & location aware technology

Citation

Stals, S., Smyth, M., & Ijsselsteijn, W. (2014). Walking & talking: probing the urban lived experience. In Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Fun, Fast, Foundational - NordiCHI '14 (737-746). https://doi.org/10.1145/2639189.2641215

• Conference Name: NordiCHI'14 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational
• Start Date: Oct 26, 2014
• End Date: Oct 30, 2014
• Publication Date: 2014
• Deposit Date: Oct 7, 2014
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 737-746
• Book Title: Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Fun, Fast, Foundational - NordiCHI '14
• ISBN: 978-1-4503-2542-4
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2639189.2641215
• Keywords: Ubiquitous computing; mobile devices; urban environment; person-place relationships; urban interaction
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/7239
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2639189.2641215