Battery icons shape perceptions of time and space
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Re: Battery icons shape perceptions of time and space
#2>Anything less than half full, however, induced feelings of profound anxiety and discomfort," he said.
I wonder how much priming they had to do to get that response. Sounds like we can cure the world's anxiety with a $20 battery backup.
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#3The actual article http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/22401/3/Main%20Docume... seems to be an example of using jargon to obfuscate
> We show that energy gauges on portable technology (e.g. battery icons in phones) are a key to energy hysteresis. Through “hermeneutic reflection” on the battery charge in portable technology and information about accessibility of infrastructure outlets in the city, consumers adapt practices (Bourdieu 1990a: 99) in order to ‘re-embed’ or ‘pin down’ infrastructure, technology and social relations (Giddens 2013:79). The aim of these practices is to attain ‘psychological comfort’ in vulnerable circumstances (Giddens 2013: 155). However, rather than a return to equilibrium as in Phipps and Ozanne’s (2017), single domain context we see energy consumption through portable technology as leading to a system of contingency planning that anticipates disequilibrium (see figure 1).
Re: Battery icons shape perceptions of time and space
#4>Anything less than half full, however, induced feelings of profound anxiety and discomfort," he said. I wonder how much priming they had to do to get that response. Sounds like we can cure the world's anxiety with a $20 battery backup.
Will these findings result in a softer, more comforting way of saying your phone's battery is low?
Perhaps an anthropomorphic icon that looks like its getting sleepier and sleepier, or something Tomagotchi-like.
Maybe battery-low messages that are less blunt and more friendly, like "We know you're busy, but your device is working hard and needs a recharge as soon as possible. Thanks for connecting me to a power source as soon as you can manage."
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#5Data point of one, but I cannot relate to this in the slightest. My Android phone is two years old and I never even check the battery. I don't even charge it at work -- but if that became a problem, I would. Seems like an easy problem to solve.
And who in the world measures their commute in batteries? Ten miles will stay ten miles; half a battery could mean very different things from one day to the next.
(The phone is a Huawei Y7 that I bought in Bogotá in Dec 2017. It wasn't available in the US at that time, and I never really found the specs online -- only for models that seemed likely to be similar.)
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#6I never carry a charger for my phone or laptop unless I plan to spend more than a day out (I had to with my old laptop, though). I actually feel a little frustrated when my phone's battery lasts less than 48 hours, because it means I'm using my smartphone much more than necessary. I don't try to limit my phone use, but I do take some measures that probably help to save battery: screen rotation and bluetooth are always off and I use an app that automatically adjusts screen brightness much more efficiently than the stock android setting does.
Re: Battery icons shape perceptions of time and space
#7The actual article http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/22401/3/Main%20Docume... seems to be an example of using jargon to obfuscate > We show that energy gauges on portable technology (e.g. battery icons in phones) are a key to energy hysteresis. Through “hermeneutic reflection” on the battery charge in portable technology and information about accessibility of infrastructure outlets in the city, consumers adapt p…
That paragraph doesn't seem like jargon to me (though I admit I used to work in a field where "hermeneutic" was an ordinary term). But part from that perhaps uncommon term, it all seems pretty straightforward and in fact doesn't appear to use any domain-specific terms.
Re: Battery icons shape perceptions of time and space
#8>Anything less than half full, however, induced feelings of profound anxiety and discomfort," he said. I wonder how much priming they had to do to get that response. Sounds like we can cure the world's anxiety with a $20 battery backup.
I see this fear in my GF's (young teen) kids who go out of their way to plug their stuff in.
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#9>Anything less than half full, however, induced feelings of profound anxiety and discomfort," he said. I wonder how much priming they had to do to get that response. Sounds like we can cure the world's anxiety with a $20 battery backup.
Will these findings result in a softer, more comforting way of saying your phone's battery is low? Perhaps an anthropomorphic icon that looks like its getting sleepier and sleepier, or something Tomagotchi-like. Maybe battery-low messages that are less blunt and more friendly, like "We know you're busy, but your device is working hard and needs a recharge as soon as possible. Thanks for connecting me to a power sourc…
I think it'd just increase stress. Instead of seeing some kind of counter going down (percentage) we'd have a vague statement that at any point in time the phone can shutdown.
Re: Battery icons shape perceptions of time and space
#10Data point of one, but I cannot relate to this in the slightest. My Android phone is two years old and I never even check the battery. I don't even charge it at work -- but if that became a problem, I would. Seems like an easy problem to solve. And who in the world measures their commute in batteries? Ten miles will stay ten miles; half a battery could mean very different things from one day to the next. (The phone i…
Do you by any chance also pack light for trips? Have fairly empty pockets? Genuinely interested.