Abstract
Mobile devices and communication have become ubiquitous in the west and people born to this millennium start interacting with this environment from early on. These digital natives' approach to the world and expectations of how it should operate may differ from that of the digital immigrants'. This creates a risk of a design conflict, where solutions developed by immigrants may fit poorly to the natives' way to do things. It is important to understand digital natives better in order to know what design principles hold true with them. We interviewed 6-7 year old Finnish girls, who had just started school and had gotten their first mobile phone, to understand what their experiences are on using mobile phones, what they think of mobile phone use, and how they use them. This paper reports our preliminary results and proposes possible new avenues for research of digital natives.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, MUM 2012 |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery ACM |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4503-1815-0 |
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| Publication status | Published - 31 Dec 2012 |
| MoE publication type | Not Eligible |
| Event | 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, MUM 2012 - Ulm, Germany Duration: 4 Dec 2012 → 6 Dec 2012 |
Conference
| Conference | 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, MUM 2012 |
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| Abbreviated title | MUM 2012 |
| Country/Territory | Germany |
| City | Ulm |
| Period | 4/12/12 → 6/12/12 |
Keywords
- Children
- Digital natives
- Mobile phone