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Using mobile phones in pub talk

Porcheron, Martin; Fischer, Joel E.; Sharples, Sarah

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Authors

Martin Porcheron

JOEL FISCHER Joel.Fischer@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Human-Computer Interaction

SARAH SHARPLES SARAH.SHARPLES@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Human Factors



Abstract

We present the findings from a study of how people interleave mobile phone use with conversation in pubs. Our findings, informed by ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, unpack the interactional methods through which groups of people in pubs occasioned, sustained, and disengaged from mobile device use during conversation with friends. Fundamentally, the work that is done consists of various methods of accounting for mobile device use, and displaying involvement in social interaction while the device is used. We highlight multiple examples of the nuanced ways in which interleaving is problematic in interaction, and relate our findings to the CSCW and HCI literature on collocated interaction. We conclude by considering avenues for future research, and discuss how we may support or disrupt interleaving practices through design to overcome the highlighted interactional troubles.

Citation

Porcheron, M., Fischer, J. E., & Sharples, S. (2016). Using mobile phones in pub talk. . https://doi.org/10.1145/2818048.2820014

Conference Name 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW ’16)
Acceptance Date Aug 17, 2015
Publication Date Feb 27, 2016
Deposit Date Oct 20, 2015
Publicly Available Date Feb 27, 2016
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/2818048.2820014
Keywords mobile devices; smartphones; third place; bar; collocated interaction; ethnomethodology; conversation analysis.
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/775042
Related Public URLs http://cscw.acm.org/2016/index.php
Additional Information Published in: San Francisco, California, USA — February 27 - March 02, 2016, New York : USA, ©2016
ISBN: 9781450335928. doi: 10.1145/2818048.2820014
Contract Date Oct 20, 2015

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