Technology meets adventure: learnings from an earthquake-interrupted Mt. Everest expedition

Florian 'Floyd' Mueller; Sarah Jane Pell

doi:10.1145/2971648.2971683

Technology meets adventure: learnings from an earthquake-interrupted Mt. Everest expedition

Florian 'Floyd' Mueller, Sarah Jane Pell

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Abstract

HCI is increasingly interested in supporting people's physically active lifestyle. Adventure is part of this lifestyle, and to contribute an HCI perspective on adventure, we present an autoethnographical account of an expedition via Nepal to Mt. Everest. During this expedition, on the 25^th and 26^th April 2015, two devastating earthquakes struck the region. We believe we can learn from such extreme experiences and therefore reflect on this epic adventure through a set of themes to articulate two dimensions (expected-unexpected and instrumentalexperiential) in order to identify four roles for adventuretechnology: as coach, rescuer, documentarian and mentor. Our work aims to provide HCI designers with an initial conceptual lens to embrace adventure, and more generally, to expand our knowledge of supporting people's physically active lifestyle.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
Editors	Youn-kyung Lim, Andreas Bulling, Shwetak Patel
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	817-828
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450344616
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2971648.2971683
Publication status	Published - 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing 2016 - Heidelberg, Germany Duration: 12 Sept 2016 → 16 Sept 2016 https://ubicomp.org/ubicomp2016/index.php

Conference

Conference	ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing 2016
Abbreviated title	UbiComp 2016
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Heidelberg
Period	12/09/16 → 16/09/16
Internet address	https://ubicomp.org/ubicomp2016/index.php

Keywords

Adventure
Climbing
Exertion
Extreme sports
Physical activity
Trekking
Whole-body interaction

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Mueller, Florian 'Floyd' ; Pell, Sarah Jane. / Technology meets adventure : learnings from an earthquake-interrupted Mt. Everest expedition. Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. editor / Youn-kyung Lim ; Andreas Bulling ; Shwetak Patel. New York NY USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2016. pp. 817-828

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Mueller, FF & Pell, SJ 2016, Technology meets adventure: learnings from an earthquake-interrupted Mt. Everest expedition. in Y Lim, A Bulling & S Patel (eds), Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, pp. 817-828, ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing 2016, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, 12/09/16. https://doi.org/10.1145/2971648.2971683

Technology meets adventure: learnings from an earthquake-interrupted Mt. Everest expedition. / Mueller, Florian 'Floyd'; Pell, Sarah Jane.
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. ed. / Youn-kyung Lim; Andreas Bulling; Shwetak Patel. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2016. p. 817-828.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

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