TY - GEN
T1 - From ambient to adaptation
T2 - 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2015
AU - Wohn, Donghee Yvette
AU - Birnholtz, Jeremy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 ACM.
PY - 2015/8/24
Y1 - 2015/8/24
N2 - Ubiquitous mobile usage provides more opportunities to interact with more people than ever, but with the constraint that people's capacity for attention to others is limited. People manage demands on their attention by limiting their availability to others, and this may cause failure in attempts to reach others. In today's always-connected world, we know very little about how people manage their own availability, maintain awareness of others, and adapt their strategies for reaching others in the face of failure. This paper draws on results from a qualitative field study to present an integrative, joint action approach to attention management. Results suggest that mobile devices play a large part in assessing ambient awareness of others and signaling availability, but are rarely used in isolation. Attention is a continuum that spans multiple devices and channels involving actions and choices learned over time.
AB - Ubiquitous mobile usage provides more opportunities to interact with more people than ever, but with the constraint that people's capacity for attention to others is limited. People manage demands on their attention by limiting their availability to others, and this may cause failure in attempts to reach others. In today's always-connected world, we know very little about how people manage their own availability, maintain awareness of others, and adapt their strategies for reaching others in the face of failure. This paper draws on results from a qualitative field study to present an integrative, joint action approach to attention management. Results suggest that mobile devices play a large part in assessing ambient awareness of others and signaling availability, but are rarely used in isolation. Attention is a continuum that spans multiple devices and channels involving actions and choices learned over time.
KW - Ambient attention
KW - Attention
KW - Awareness
KW - CMC
KW - Channel sequencing
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U2 - 10.1145/2785830.2785865
DO - 10.1145/2785830.2785865
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84959440129
T3 - MobileHCI 2015 - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
SP - 26
EP - 35
BT - MobileHCI 2015 - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 24 August 2015 through 27 August 2015
ER -