TY - GEN
T1 - Transitions in digital personhood
T2 - online activity in early retirement
AU - Durrant, Abigail
AU - Kirk, David
AU - Pisanty, Diego Trujillo
AU - Moncur, Wendy
AU - Orzech, Kathryn
AU - Schofield, Tom
AU - Elsden, Chris
AU - Chatting, David
AU - Monk, Andrew
PY - 2017/5/1
Y1 - 2017/5/1
N2 - We present findings from a qualitative study about how Internet use supports self-functioning following the life transition of retirement from work. This study recruited six recent retirees and included the deployment of OnLines, a design research artifact that logged and visualized key online services used by participants at home over four-weeks. The deployment was supported by pre- and post-deployment interviews. OnLines prompted participants' reflection on their patterns of Internet use. Position Exchange Theory was used to understand retirees' sense making from a lifespan perspective, informing the design of supportive online services. This paper delivers a three-fold contribution to the field of human-computer interaction, advancing a lifespan-oriented approach by conceptualizing the self as a dialogical phenomenon that develops over time, advancing the ageing discourse by reporting on retirees' complex identities in the context of their life histories, and advancing discourse on research through design by developing OnLines to foster participant-researcher reflection informed by Self Psychology.
AB - We present findings from a qualitative study about how Internet use supports self-functioning following the life transition of retirement from work. This study recruited six recent retirees and included the deployment of OnLines, a design research artifact that logged and visualized key online services used by participants at home over four-weeks. The deployment was supported by pre- and post-deployment interviews. OnLines prompted participants' reflection on their patterns of Internet use. Position Exchange Theory was used to understand retirees' sense making from a lifespan perspective, informing the design of supportive online services. This paper delivers a three-fold contribution to the field of human-computer interaction, advancing a lifespan-oriented approach by conceptualizing the self as a dialogical phenomenon that develops over time, advancing the ageing discourse by reporting on retirees' complex identities in the context of their life histories, and advancing discourse on research through design by developing OnLines to foster participant-researcher reflection informed by Self Psychology.
KW - digital personhood
KW - human-computer interaction
U2 - 10.1145/3025453.3025913
DO - 10.1145/3025453.3025913
M3 - Conference contribution book
SN - 9781450346559
SN - 9781450346559
SP - 6398
EP - 6411
BT - Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '17
ER -