Designing Digital Rollovers: Managing Perceived Obsolescence through Release Times

Designing for Technology Obsolescence Management

Many types of products that have to be manufactured and supported for long periods of time lack control over critical parts of their supply chain, e.g., avionics, telecom infrastructure, and industrial controls. As a result, the components and technologies that these products depend on become obsolete long before the product’s field life (and sometimes even manufacturing life) ends. Obsolescenc...

Managing uncertain arrival times through sociomaterial associations

Interest in how individuals cope with uncertainty when scheduling their activities and trips has increased in recent years.While providing many useful concepts and insights, previous work tends to treat individuals as atomised decision-making units. This paper argues that it is imperative to think of persons coping with uncertainty about the duration of activities and trips as agents in wider s...

Digital Video Archives: Managing through Metadata

As analog video collections are digitized and new video is created in digital form, computer users will have unprecedented access to video material, getting what they need, when they need it, wherever they happen to be. Such a vision assumes that video can be adequately stored and distributed with appropriate rights management, as well as indexed to facilitate effective information retrieval. T...

Designing Digital Climbing Experiences through Understanding Rock Climbing Motivation

Interactive systems have been used successfully in sports to assist people in achieving their performance goals, however, we believe that some aspects are often overlooked. In this paper we focus on rock climbing and we examine existing work on climbing from varying fields, including sports science, psychology, and climbing literary works, in order to identify recurring motivational themes. In ...

Managing Waste Through Managing People