My Grandfather's iPod: an investigation of emotional attachment to digital and non-digital artefacts.

Turner, Phil; Turner, Susan

Abstract

Motivation -- to explore the nature and dimensions of attachment to digital and non-digital artefacts and explicate any differences in emotional attachment between digital and non-digital artefacts.

Research approach -- Repertory grid based study

Findings/Design -- no clear distinctions between attachment to digital and non-digital artefacts

Research limitations/Implications -- need to explore the underlying factors further in particular in relation to age and gender

Originality/Value -- complements earlier reported studies which suggest that digital artefacts are much less likely to afford attachment

Take away message -- digital artefacts do not pose unique challenges for sustainable interaction design

Citation

Turner, P., & Turner, S. (2011). My Grandfather's iPod: an investigation of emotional attachment to digital and non-digital artefacts. In ECCE '11 Proceedings of the 29th Annual European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (149-156). https://doi.org/10.1145/2074712.2074742

• Conference Name: 29th conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics
• Conference Location: Rostock, Germany
• Start Date: Aug 24, 2011
• End Date: Aug 26, 2011
• Publication Date: 2011
• Deposit Date: Sep 1, 2011
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 149-156
• Book Title: ECCE '11 Proceedings of the 29th Annual European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics
• ISBN: 978-1-4503-1029-1
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2074712.2074742
• Keywords: iPod; attachment; artefacts; digital; non-digital; sustainable interaction design
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4594
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2074712.2074742