Tending to mobile societies a petrol station study

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Tending to mobile societiesa petrol station study

• Daniel Normark Vesterlind

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Tending to Mobile Societiesa Petrol station study

• Daniel Normark Vesterlind
• Mobility Studio

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This talk

• Research background
• Background to the petrol station study
• Handling co-precence
• Tending to mobility
• Diversity
• Spectrum of intensities of staying
• Availability rather than service
• Interconnectedness of technosocial spaces

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Mobility studio

• Inter???
• Understanding road-use
• designing applications for added value
• Hocman
• Soundpryer
• Backseat gaming

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PumpTalk project

• Motivation implementation of digital access at
  petrol stations (WiFi)
• Two folded question
• understanding current practices
• Design suggestions for digital services

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Findings

• The attention of handling co-presence
• Tending to mobility
• Diversity
• Spectrum of intensities of staying
• Avaliability and Flexibility

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Diversity
The time on the move is not dead time but it
could be bed time

• Means of mobility
• People (and the diversity of people)
• Objects
• Money
• Information

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Intensities of staying

• being in the way
• being on the way
• being of the way
• Fast Smooth vs relaxed customers
• Spectrum of customer and staff engagements
  (service/assistance/monitoring)

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Availability
The petrol stations solidity as place is
founded by its flexibility as frame for varying
practises of space, time and speed. Megan
Morris

• Not the quality of service but the availability
  of petrol but also milk
• Of the local and the global
• Interconnectedness at the place between various
  technosocial spaces

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Summary

• Through the repair by the petrol station
  mobility is maintained and accomplished.
• The activities and people at the petrol station
  reveal a diversity in mobility
• Spectrum of intensities of staying
• Availability and interconnectedness

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Suggestions questions

• www.tii.se/mobility
• www.sts.gu.se
• danieln_at_tii.se