While outdoor sport activities keep gaining popularity as part of a global trend to maintain a healthier lifestyle, current technology offers limited support for activity-specific needs. Therefore, a greater understanding of information sharing behaviours is necessary in order to build comprehensive, socially-embedded sports applications. To this purpose, we interviewed 46 practitioners in three outdoor sports: trail running, climbing, and skiing. Our qualitative study investigates how participants share information in the context of outdoor sports and how current technology supports this practice. Through thematic analysis, we derived five themes that describe the current information sharing practices: nature, risk and planning, content selection, audience selection, and privacy. Based on these themes, we present five recommendations for design that can inform, inspire and refine future sharing technologies for outdoor sport.
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Woźniak, P. W., Fedosov, A., Mencarini, E., & Knaving, K. (2017). Soil, rock and snow: On designing for information sharing in outdoor sports. In DIS 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 611–623). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3064663.3064741
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