Chris Speed

TL;DR: Based on a review of smartphone apps, the authors evaluates the current functionalities used in the domestic tourism travel domain and highlights where the next major developments lie, and analyzes how the smartphone mediates tourism travel and the role it might play in more collaborative and dynamic travel decisions to facilitate sustainable travel.

TL;DR: There is a unique role for the HCI community in linking the design and application of blockchain technology towards lived experience and the articulation of human values, as well as core conceptual and methodological challenges for HCI researchers beginning to work with blockchain and distributed ledger technologies.

TL;DR: Examining the potential that a thing ethnography holds for both design and anthropology challenges anthropocentric assumptions about the world, and opens up ways of understanding relationships among people, objects and use practices that would be difficult to elicit through traditional observations and interviews alone.

TL;DR: Results from fieldwork with different community groups in the course of which seemingly any object could form the basis of a meaningful story and act as entry point into rich inherent ‘nets of meaning’ are discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the forms of community that exist in physical tourism contexts, and explore how mobile technology is creating connections within and beyond existing social networks, and how sustainable tourism can be enhanced by mobile connectivity through new space-time practices and using ephemeral interpersonal relationships to harness niche groups.