Walking & talking: Probing the urban lived experience

Shenando Stals; Michael Smyth; Wijnand IJsselsteijn

doi:10.1145/2639189.2641215

Walking & talking: Probing the urban lived experience

Shenando Stals
, Michael Smyth
, Wijnand IJsselsteijn

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

19 Citations (Scopus)

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the NordiCHI 2014
Subtitle of host publication	The 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Pages	737-746
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	1595930361, 9781450325424
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2639189.2641215
Publication status	Published - 26 Oct 2014
Event	8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI 2014 - Helsinki, Finland Duration: 26 Oct 2014 → 30 Oct 2014 Conference number: 8

Conference

Conference	8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI 2014
Abbreviated title	NordiCHI'14
Country/Territory	Finland
City	Helsinki
Period	26/10/14 → 30/10/14

Keywords

Design fictions
Mobile methodology
Person-place relationship
Place attachment
Place meaning
Urban interaction design
Walking interview

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Stals, S, Smyth, M & IJsselsteijn, W 2014, Walking & talking: Probing the urban lived experience. in Proceedings of the NordiCHI 2014: The 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., pp. 737-746, 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI 2014, Helsinki, Finland, 26/10/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2639189.2641215

Walking & talking: Probing the urban lived experience. / Stals, Shenando; Smyth, Michael; IJsselsteijn, Wijnand.
Proceedings of the NordiCHI 2014: The 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2014. p. 737-746.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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