-Tactics and Concepts for Highly Mobile People

The Journey Experiment
We conducted a qualitative experiment where we set up different means of
communication between Aviaja and different members of her extended family. Figure 4
illustrates the communication mechanisms, which were set up before the travel. All
participants got introduced to the communication types immediately before Aviaja and
her family went on their trip. Aviaja. Anders and Anton went on a holiday to the
Phililppines for two weeks.
6.1 Participants
Aviaja lives with her husband, Anders and their one-­‐year old son in a flat in a medium
sized city in Denmark. They frequently see and communicate with their extended family
on a weekly basis either face to face or via phone calls. Aviaja also communicates via text
messages with her father and more often her mother.
Aviaja’s father and his younger daughter live in the same city. They were equipped with
the HOMEinTOUCH prototype. Aviaja’s mother lives in the capital and she received a
commercial digital picture frame (eStarling seeframe) in the airport where she came to
send off the family. Aviaja’s mother in law got introduced to an igoogle website set up for
the journey and her father in law was not introduced to any communication means by
Aviaja and her family, but discovered some of them during the travel. The four parents all
live in each their household. Table 1 provides an overview of the qualities of the different
communication types.
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