Exploring the Non-Use of mobile devices in families through provocative design

TY - GEN

T1 - Exploring the Non-Use of mobile devices in families through provocative design

AU - Bruun, Anders

AU - Jensen, Rikke Hagensby

AU - Kjeldskov, Jesper

AU - Paay, Jeni

AU - Hansen, Camilla Mejlby

AU - Leci Sakácová, Katarína

AU - Larsen, Mette Hyllested

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2020 ACM.

PY - 2020/7/3

Y1 - 2020/7/3

N2 - Mobile devices are fast becoming an integral part of family life. While mobile technology provides constant connectivity to a world outside the home, it inevitably disrupts family dynamics and the social notion of being together. In this paper, we explore "non-use" of mobile technology in a family setting. To do this, we designed the Pup-Lock provotype, a design provocation intended to challenge established expectations and practices around mobile device use at home. We report on a five-week in-depth study of using Pup-Lock with three families reflecting on their mobile device usage and their experience of non-use. Our findings illustrate how mobile use shapes social expectations and how over-use creates tensions in families. We contribute by showing how provoking non-use through design results in desirable and meaningful ways to increase family interaction. We discuss implications of designing for non-use to challenge established domestic practices around technology use.

AB - Mobile devices are fast becoming an integral part of family life. While mobile technology provides constant connectivity to a world outside the home, it inevitably disrupts family dynamics and the social notion of being together. In this paper, we explore "non-use" of mobile technology in a family setting. To do this, we designed the Pup-Lock provotype, a design provocation intended to challenge established expectations and practices around mobile device use at home. We report on a five-week in-depth study of using Pup-Lock with three families reflecting on their mobile device usage and their experience of non-use. Our findings illustrate how mobile use shapes social expectations and how over-use creates tensions in families. We contribute by showing how provoking non-use through design results in desirable and meaningful ways to increase family interaction. We discuss implications of designing for non-use to challenge established domestic practices around technology use.

KW - Design provocation

KW - Explorative field study

KW - Family

KW - Mobile devices

KW - Non-use

KW - Practice

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85090501029&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/3357236.3395428

DO - 10.1145/3357236.3395428

M3 - Article in proceedings

AN - SCOPUS:85090501029

SP - 813

EP - 826

BT - DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.

T2 - 2020 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2020

Y2 - 6 July 2020 through 10 July 2020

ER -