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Welcome to the jungle : HCI after dark

Satchell, Christine & Foth, Marcus (2011) Welcome to the jungle : HCI after dark. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), ACM SIGCHI, Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, BC, pp. 753-762.

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    Abstract

    The transformation of urban spaces that occurs once darkness falls is simultaneously exhilarating and menacing, and over the past 20 months we have investigated the potential for mobile technology to help users manage their personal safety concerns in the city at night. Our findings subverted commonly held notions of vulnerability, with the threat of violence felt equally by men and women. But while women felt protected because of their mobile technology, men dismissed it as digital Man Mace. We addressed this macho design challenge by studying remote engineers in outback Australia to inspire our personal safety design prototype MATE (Mobile Artifact for Taming Environments).

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    ID Code: 40269
    Item Type: Conference Paper
    Additional Information: This paper was accepted into the alt.chi paper stream after peer review.
    Keywords: urban informatics, city, disasters, personal safety artifacts, user studies, convergence, mobile artifacts, fear, night
    DOI: 10.1145/1979742.1979630
    Subjects: Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES (080000) > INFORMATION SYSTEMS (080600) > Computer-Human Interaction (080602)
    Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND DESIGN (120000) > DESIGN PRACTICE AND MANAGEMENT (120300) > Digital and Interaction Design (120304)
    Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY (160000) > HUMAN GEOGRAPHY (160400) > Urban and Regional Studies (excl. Planning) (160404)
    Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY (160000) > SOCIOLOGY (160800) > Urban Sociology and Community Studies (160810)
    Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > LANGUAGES COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE (200000) > COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES (200100) > Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies (200102)
    Divisions: Current > QUT Faculties and Divisions > Creative Industries Faculty
    Past > Institutes > Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation
    Copyright Owner: Copyright 2011 Christine Satchell and Marcus Foth
    Copyright Statement: Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). CHI 2011, May 7–12, 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada. ACM 978-1-4503-0268-5/11/05.
    Deposited On: 24 Feb 2011 08:00
    Last Modified: 08 May 2013 13:30

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