The move to university can be difficult for students- a transition often characterised by risk of loneliness and poor mental health. Previous work highlights the important role social media play in this transition. We report findings from large-scale survey 510 first year undergraduates across UK, identifying factors that predict student loneliness, exploring their use. Higher levels capital, induction satisfaction, sense community are significantly associated with lower loneliness....

Social media (SM) are a core component of young people's lives and have been researched in relation to relationship building maintenance. While SM known be useful supporting life transitions for people, we know little about the specific use patterns or activities associated with social adjustment during transition university. We explore student university theories comparison community describe three stage process which accounts this transition. Participants move through stages affirmation,...

Identity technologies constitute one of the fastest growing areas for research and development, driven by both commercial administrative imperatives. Crucially, they means which we include or exclude individuals groups in terms access to goods, services information -- yet few developments this space embrace an inclusive value sensitive design philosophy. We describe a rigorous exercise source scenarios that capture new identity use these as probes process. Workshops were held with six...

Industrial time and space produce marginalities resistance: Queer rejects linearity potentiates alternate experiences (Halbertsam, 2005). Today, many experience phones or smartwatches as mediating temporal ruptures in daily lives (Mowlabocus, 2016), hookup app industries monetise intimacies. Given permanent online connectivity, work leisure are more porous than a factory, yet corporate mediate marginal socialities. Industrious rural queers wrestle control of spatiotemporal intimacies from...

A number of technologies have been developed to help users manage their digital legacy, however few user contributions in this space solicited from older adults. This is surprising given that people may cope with a inheritance but be poorly equipped do so. The current paper describes three phases research explore adults understanding and preferences for legacy. In phase I, we conducted large-scale scoping exercise designed elicit relevant scenarios around II, presented selection legacy...

This paper examines how an occupational group has adapted to the demands of working with a Location Based Service (LBS). Instead following rigid timetable, London's bus drivers are now required maintain equal distance between in front and one behind. Our qualitative study employs ethnographic fieldwork in-depth semi-structured interviews elicit drivers' perspectives new system show it modified their driving general work conditions. We explore passengers influence movement technology frames...

Reminiscence is used to support and create new social bonds give meaning life. Originally perceived as a preoccupation of the aged, we now recognize that reminiscence has value throughout lifespan. Increasingly, media can be both prompt reminiscence, with Facebook's Lookback or Year in Review recent examples. This work takes prompted further, asking what forms functions are supported by media. Utilizing online service MySocialBook, invited participants curate content from their personal...

Background: there has been a rise in the use of social media applications that allow people to see where friends, family and nearby services are located. Yet while uptake high for younger people, adoption by older adults is relatively slow, despite potential health benefits. In this paper, we explore barriers acceptance location-based (LBS) community adults. Objective: understand attitudes LBS technologies Methods: eighty-six used 1-week completed pre- post-use questionnaires. Twenty...

Social media is a common place for people to post and share digital reflections of their life events, including major events such as getting married, having children, graduating, etc. Although the creation posts straightforward, identification on online remains challenge. Much research in recent years focused extracting from Twitter, earthquakes, storms, floods. This paper however, targets automatic detection personal focusing five that psychologists found be most prominent lives. We define...

Increasingly our digital traces are providing new opportunities for self-reflection. In particular, social media (SM) data can be used to support self-reflection, but what extent is this affected by the form in which SM presented? Here, we present three studies where work with individuals transform or remediate their into a physical book, photographic triptych and film. We describe editorial decisions that take place as part of remediation process show how transformations allow users reflect...

Many social media platforms support the curation of personal digital data, and, more recently, use that data for review and reflection. We explored process reflection by asking users to create a meaningful 'triptych' photographs drawn from their Facebook accounts. In first study, we asked participants manually trawl own accounts select three relevant images, which then framed used as an interview probe. second designed automated triptych generation system assessed participants' experiences...

A growing body of work explores the well-being students. However, little has addressed experiences student mothers, who must juggle demands study and childcare simultaneously. The rise mother is taking place at a time when learning engagement as well become highly digitised. Existing literature on work/life balance suggests key issue for mothers management work-family border, such that they can choose to segregate or blend roles appropriate. In this study, we used border theory examine role...

New systems have been introduced that support the visualisation and sharing of personal digital data, but relatively little work has done to establish how such reminiscence reflection. In this paper, we explore Intel’s Museum Me, a tool collates presents Facebook data in form virtual museum, by asking an automated biography might reflection process life review. We supported users their creation museums interviewed them about experiences, using theoretical framework highlighted importance...

Non-profit organisations may find it difficult to demonstrate potential volunteers what is required in their voluntary role-resulting a mismatch between expectations and reality for volunteers. This could be perceived as psychological contract breach. We interviewed 18 7 coordinators about experiences order understand how the experience of can better captured communicated. Further, we wished consider future digital platforms might capture important elements volunteer support recruitment,...

In Brief Effective training and education programs help reinforce techniques behaviors healthcare providers should use when faced with a threatening situation. The goal of this pilot project was to decrease incidents harm due workplace violence through improvements in de-escalation techniques, reporting incidents, incident response times.

In this paper we explore technologies that help parents locate their children. Parents regularly use mobile phones to stay in touch with children, but recent developments location-based tracking allow assess the location of child directly. Such services offer new assurances, also bring privacy challenges. order these, conducted a case study focussing on way which family has used keep track Aspergers Syndrome and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. This novel research shows...

Today, new mothers are experiencing parenthood differently. Digital resources can provide a wealth of information, present opportunities for socialising, and even assist in tracking baby's development. However, women often juggling the role motherhood with other commitments, such as work. The aim this workshop is to understand digital support needs practices during from perspective employed mothers. We interested exploring ways that utilise technologies which have been designed mothers,...

New students face challenges when they make the transition from school to university. Existing digital technologies used during this can sometimes increase stressors associated with change. In order explore ways forward for technology design in space, we developed a brochure of questionable concepts. The concepts were grounded findings our prior research, yet also intended act as provocations promote discussion workshops involving 32 first year university students. Our analysis workshop...

The use of social media has steadily grown in recent years, and now more than ever, people are logging on to websites like Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Google Latitude with the aim broadcasting their location information. ability 'check in' enabled network site users broadcast detailed information about whereabouts also what they doing there. This is encouraged by implementation location-based services (LBS) - technology which uses geographical position a mobile device. To date, little...

A new occupation in the alcoholism field that has emerged last ten years is of occupational consultants (OPCs). study OPCs provided information on degree to which an been “created.” Job activities are focus. Initially, differences were found job between working at state and local levels. State have greater diversity their role while more involved “primary” programming. Factor analysis uncovered work styles OPCs. Work for program initiation, community organization, expert consultation. The...

Social media has begun to migrate from a predominantly text-based medium, through photography and into cinematography edited video. Film is vital medium which we not only capture our world, but also seek understand it. This workshop explores an emerging area of research within the CHI community that focuses on applying filmic techniques in two different ways; 1) automatically interpret personal data allow users interact with data, 2) explore film as vehicle for curation digital identity....

To date there has been no tested model to predict uptake of LBS services in a real world setting. The leading theoretical contribution our understanding attitudes and behaviour towards comes from Junglas & Spitzmüller (2005). They hypothesised that intentions use would be influenced by technology characteristics, task personality type, perceived privacy, usefulness, trust risk. We developed questionnaire test refine their with UK employed population.