Homing in Mobile Life: A Contextual Study of Domestic Information on Health

• Main Authors: Huang, JuWei, 黃如薇
• Other Authors: Chuang, MingChuen
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/19659127804774399936

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 應用藝術研究所 === 100 === In recent years, a number of people live in mobile life and away from their family. The idea of home for mobile people is not a stationary location, but rather an experience along with the place where they stay. In order to feel more homely in new residence, mobile family member create the sense of belonging in certain place through the identity of their own families. Taking into account of domestic information, health and diet information are considered as one of the most valuable data to construct the sense of belonging for mobile people. To maintain the experience of belonging for mobile family member, the research seeks to build the idea for homing toward domestic health information. In the advances of technologies nowadays, research studies are now paying attention to personal or social health management, health reflection of elderly or children at home. However, it is a lack of investigation on how mobile family member create the belongingness to family through domestic health and diet information. To support mobile people construct the sense of belonging, the research firstly excavated comprehensive health information within family, and secondly retrieved the possibility of homing for mobile people. Based on the in-depth interview with family members, the research recruited participants included seven mothers, as the role of family member at home, and four children, as the role of mobile people. Though the analysis of affinity diagram and work models, the research explore how domestic health information being managed in family. From the understanding of results, several factors highlight the belongingness to family via health information, which are geographic health information, family health beliefs, the role of mothers in family, empirical practice of health, and health expectation. In order to put the idea for homing into practice, Food in family, Long-term Healthcare, and Daily Schedule are proposed as Information Artifact which help mobile people evoke the belongingness for family. Drawing attention to the possibility of homing, several implications have been proposed in research. Copying domestic health information, sharing appropriately is the consideration for distributed family to interchange information. Connecting geographically and maintaining daily Schedule are the idea to construct a relative position of health information for mobile people. These implications provide the insights in health management for designing technology for family.