Together in Bed?: Couples' Mobile Technology Use in Bed

Tarja Salmela; Ashley Colley; Jonna Häkkilä

doi:10.1145/3290605.3300732

Together in Bed? Couples' Mobile Technology Use in Bed

Tarja Salmela, Ashley Colley, Jonna Häkkilä

Faculty of Art and Design

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

22 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the use of mobile technology in an underexplored context, the bed that couples share. Despite large amounts of research on the impact of pre-bedtime technology use on our sleep and mental state, scant research in the HCI field focuses on the physical bed as a negotiated site of technology use by couples. This paper explores (a) the meaning of the bed accessed by mobile technology and (b) the strategies of both individual and shared technology use in bed, in the context of couple's relationships. We investigate the effects of mobile technology to couples' bed-sharing practices through in-depth interviews (n = 12) and an online survey (n = 117). We report on creative and negotiated bodily practices of mobile technology use by couples in bed, and the perceived effects on couples' verbal and physical interaction and the intimacy of the bed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI '19
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	Stephen Brewster, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Anna Cox, Vassilis Kostakos
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	ACM
Pages	502:1-502:12
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-5970-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300732
Publication status	Published - 2019
MoEC publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Extended Abstracts of the 2021 - Yokohama, Japan Duration: 8 May 2021 → 13 May 2021 https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3411763

Publication series

Series	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Conference

Conference	CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	CHI
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Yokohama
Period	08.05.2021 → 13.05.2021
Internet address	https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3411763

Keywords

bed
bedrooms
couple relationships
disconnecting
sleep
smartphones
mobile technology
intimacy

Field of science

Visual arts and design

Access to research output

10.1145/3290605.3300732Licence: CC BY-NC

Citation for this output

Salmela, Tarja ; Colley, Ashley ; Häkkilä, Jonna. / Together in Bed? Couples' Mobile Technology Use in Bed. CHI '19 : Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. editor / Stephen Brewster ; Geraldine Fitzpatrick ; Anna Cox ; Vassilis Kostakos. New York, NY, USA : ACM , 2019. pp. 502:1-502:12 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Salmela, T, Colley, A & Häkkilä, J 2019, Together in Bed? Couples' Mobile Technology Use in Bed. in S Brewster, G Fitzpatrick, A Cox & V Kostakos (eds), CHI '19 : Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM , New York, NY, USA, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, pp. 502:1-502:12, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan, 08.05.2021. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300732

Together in Bed? Couples' Mobile Technology Use in Bed. / Salmela, Tarja; Colley, Ashley ; Häkkilä, Jonna.
CHI '19 : Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ed. / Stephen Brewster; Geraldine Fitzpatrick; Anna Cox; Vassilis Kostakos. New York, NY, USA: ACM , 2019. p. 502:1-502:12 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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

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Salmela T, Colley A , Häkkilä J. Together in Bed? Couples' Mobile Technology Use in Bed. In Brewster S, Fitzpatrick G, Cox A, Kostakos V, editors, CHI '19 : Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA: ACM . 2019. p. 502:1-502:12. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/3290605.3300732