Longing to be the Mountain: A Scoping Review about Nature-Centric, Health-Minded Technologies

Velvet Spors; Samuli Laato; Oǧuz Oz Buruk; Juho Hamari

doi:10.1145/3544548.3581479

Longing to be the Mountain: A Scoping Review about Nature-Centric, Health-Minded Technologies

Velvet Spors, Samuli Laato, Oǧuz Oz Buruk, Juho Hamari

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Engaging with nature enriches people's life greatly, and it is a particularly powerful wellbeing activity. Unsurprisingly, researchers in HCI and beyond seek to augment and extend the relationship people have with nature through technology, to positively enhance their health as a result. In this paper, we report on a scoping review that examines research exploring health, nature, and technology research. By charting 29 papers from the last five years, we produce a situated snapshot of the current research landscape and identify three trends within the paper pool: Despite the potential for rich, experiential engagements, human-nature interaction is often understood as an endeavour that is 1) universal, 2) flattened and 3) disconnected from everyday life. We reflect on our findings to outline design opportunities for human-nature interaction that extend and re-orientate it; to design for multi-dimensional caring experiences that allow for a more-than-just-human understanding of nature.

Alkuperäiskieli	Englanti
Otsikko	CHI 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Kustantaja	ACM
ISBN (elektroninen)	9781450394215
DOI - pysyväislinkit	https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581479
Tila	Julkaistu - 19 huhtik. 2023
OKM-julkaisutyyppi	A4 Artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa
Tapahtuma	ACM SIGCHI annual conference on human factors in computing systems - Hamburg, Saksa Kesto: 23 huhtik. 2023 → 28 huhtik. 2023

Conference

Conference	ACM SIGCHI annual conference on human factors in computing systems
Maa/Alue	Saksa
Kaupunki	Hamburg
Ajanjakso	23/04/23 → 28/04/23

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This research is supported through the Academy of Finland, UNITE flagship Grant No. 337653 (Forest-Human-Machine Interplay (UNITE)). We would like to thank the reviewers for their thoughtful comments, our colleagues at the Gamification Group for discussing the scoping review’s data set with us, and H R Cameron for their insights into ecology and human geography. The paper’s title is an homage to a song with the same title by the band King Buffalo.

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Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Software

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