Sensitizing Concepts for Socio-spatial Literacy in HCI

2017. Peter Krogh, Marianne Petersen, Kenton O'Hara & Jens Groenbaek
Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Abstract

People inherently share spaces with other people. Congenitally, interactive technologies and ubiquitous environments shape our opportunities for enacting social relations. Proxemics and Spatial Sharing have been suggested as foundations for our understanding of the socio-spatial aspects of computing. By tandeming these theoretical perspectives in a set of cases in the office domain, we develop a contribution comprised of 3 key sensitizing concepts: Proxemic Malleability, Proxemic Threshold and Proxemic Gravity articulating socio-spatial qualities at the interplay between interactive systems, spaces, interior elements and co-located people. The sensitizing concepts qualify interaction designers in considering proxemic consequences of technology design; they serve both as analytic lenses and as generative instruments in a design process. The proposed sensitizing concepts and the theoretical work of the paper contribute to enhanced Socio-spatial literacy in HCI.

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Citation

Krogh, P. G., Petersen, M. G., O'Hara, K., & Groenbaek, J. E. (2017). Sensitizing concepts for socio-spatial literacy in hci. Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 6449–6460). New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025756, doi:10.1145/3025453.3025756

BibTeX

@inproceedings{10.1145/3025453.3025756,
author = {Krogh, Peter Gall and Petersen, Marianne Graves and O'Hara, Kenton and Groenbaek, Jens Emil},
title = {Sensitizing Concepts for Socio-spatial Literacy in HCI},
year = {2017},
isbn = {9781450346559},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025756},
doi = {10.1145/3025453.3025756},
abstract = {People inherently share spaces with other people. Congenitally, interactive technologies and ubiquitous environments shape our opportunities for enacting social relations. Proxemics and Spatial Sharing have been suggested as foundations for our understanding of the socio-spatial aspects of computing. By tandeming these theoretical perspectives in a set of cases in the office domain, we develop a contribution comprised of 3 key sensitizing concepts: Proxemic Malleability, Proxemic Threshold and Proxemic Gravity articulating socio-spatial qualities at the interplay between interactive systems, spaces, interior elements and co-located people. The sensitizing concepts qualify interaction designers in considering proxemic consequences of technology design; they serve both as analytic lenses and as generative instruments in a design process. The proposed sensitizing concepts and the theoretical work of the paper contribute to enhanced Socio-spatial literacy in HCI.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
pages = {6449–6460},
numpages = {12},
keywords = {ubiquitous computing, spatiality, space, socio-spatial, proxemics, literacy, interaction design, architecture.},
location = {Denver, Colorado, USA},
series = {CHI '17}
}