NatureCHI: Unobtrusive User Experiences with Technology in Nature
Workshop Summaries
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Häkkilä, Jonna
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Cheverst, Keith
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Schöning, Johannes
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Bidwell, Nicola J.
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Robinson, Simon
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Colley, Ashley
Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems
2016-05-07
v.2
p.3574-3580
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: Being in nature is typically regarded to be calming, relaxing and purifying.
When in nature, people often seek physical activity like hiking, or meditative,
mindful or inspiring experiences remote from the urban everyday life. However,
the modern lifestyle easily extends technology use to all sectors of our
everyday life, and e.g. the rise of sports tracking technologies, mobile phone
integrated cameras and omnipresent social media access have contributed to
technologies also arriving into the use context of nature. Also maps and
tourist guides are increasingly smart phone or tablet based services. This
workshop addresses the challenges that are related to interacting with
technology in nature. The viewpoints cover, but are not limited to interaction
design and prototyping, social and cultural issues, user experiences that aim
for unobtrusive interactions with the technology with nature as the use
context.