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Transportation and Technology in Rural Denmark: Communities of Mobility

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Mikael B. SkovAuthors Info & Claims

OzCHI '21: Proceedings of the 33rd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

Pages 119 - 129

https://doi.org/10.1145/3520495.3520498

Published: 15 September 2022 Publication History

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Rural areas have experienced little attention in HCI research, much less rural areas in high income and developed countries. We investigated how digital technologies have influenced mobility in rural areas, through interviews with 19 people living or frequently traveling in rural areas of the North Region of Denmark. We found that rural mobility was predominantly centered around access to private cars, however it was also characterised by often being multi-modal. We present several ways that technologies played a role in coordinating mobility across public and private transportation modes. We found that communities of mobility existed on different levels; household, neighborhood and local area. We explore the conditions for suitability of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) initiatives in a rural area context, as we discuss two distinct contradictions that emerged from our findings and relate them to research challenges that we see for future development of digital technologies for rural mobility.

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Milne JBeecroft MNelson JGreening PCottrill CWright S(2024)Urban (UMaaS) and rural (RMaaS) mobility as a service (MaaS): practical insights from international practitioners and expertsEuropean Transport Research Review10.1186/s12544-023-00620-216:1Online publication date: 12-Jan-2024
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12544-023-00620-2
Memento GSantos EMarques DPresotto PSalgado AFreire A(2024)Opportunities and Challenges for Designing Interactive Applications for Coffee Producers in the Countryside of BrazilProceedings of the XXIII Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3702038.3702074(1-14)Online publication date: 7-Oct-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3702038.3702074
Franco PKaba DClose SJundi S(2023)Introduction of emerging mobility services in rural areas through the use of mobile network data combined with activity‐based travel demand modellingIET Intelligent Transport Systems10.1049/itr2.1233917:8(1509-1524)Online publication date: Mar-2023
https://doi.org/10.1049/itr2.12339

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Transportation and Technology in Rural Denmark: Communities of Mobility
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Empirical studies in HCI

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Milne JBeecroft MNelson JGreening PCottrill CWright S(2024)Urban (UMaaS) and rural (RMaaS) mobility as a service (MaaS): practical insights from international practitioners and expertsEuropean Transport Research Review10.1186/s12544-023-00620-216:1Online publication date: 12-Jan-2024
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12544-023-00620-2
Memento GSantos EMarques DPresotto PSalgado AFreire A(2024)Opportunities and Challenges for Designing Interactive Applications for Coffee Producers in the Countryside of BrazilProceedings of the XXIII Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3702038.3702074(1-14)Online publication date: 7-Oct-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3702038.3702074
Franco PKaba DClose SJundi S(2023)Introduction of emerging mobility services in rural areas through the use of mobile network data combined with activity‐based travel demand modellingIET Intelligent Transport Systems10.1049/itr2.1233917:8(1509-1524)Online publication date: Mar-2023
https://doi.org/10.1049/itr2.12339

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