While outdoor sport activities keep gaining popularity as part of a global trend to maintain a healthier lifestyle, current technology offers limited support for activity-specific needs. Therefore, a greater understanding of information sharing behaviours is necessary in order to build comprehensive, socially-embedded sports applications. To this purpose, we interviewed 46 practitioners in three outdoor sports: trail running, climbing, and skiing. Our qualitative study investigates how participants share information in the context of outdoor sports and how current technology supports this practice. Through thematic analysis, we derived five themes that describe the current information sharing practices: nature, risk and planning, content selection, audience selection, and privacy. Based on these themes, we present five recommendations for design that can inform, inspire and refine future sharing technologies for outdoor sport.
Soil, Rock, and Snow: On Designing for Information Sharing in Outdoor Sports / Wozniak, Paweł W.; Fedosov, Anton; Mencarini, Eleonora; Knaving, Kristina. - ELETTRONICO. - (2017), pp. 611-623. (Intervento presentato al convegno The ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) tenutosi a Edinburgh, UK nel 10-14/06/2017) [10.1145/3064663.3064741].
Soil, Rock, and Snow: On Designing for Information Sharing in Outdoor Sports
Mencarini, Eleonora;
2017-01-01
Abstract
While outdoor sport activities keep gaining popularity as part of a global trend to maintain a healthier lifestyle, current technology offers limited support for activity-specific needs. Therefore, a greater understanding of information sharing behaviours is necessary in order to build comprehensive, socially-embedded sports applications. To this purpose, we interviewed 46 practitioners in three outdoor sports: trail running, climbing, and skiing. Our qualitative study investigates how participants share information in the context of outdoor sports and how current technology supports this practice. Through thematic analysis, we derived five themes that describe the current information sharing practices: nature, risk and planning, content selection, audience selection, and privacy. Based on these themes, we present five recommendations for design that can inform, inspire and refine future sharing technologies for outdoor sport.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione
