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Drivers engage in the same kind of enjoyment as the classic flâneurs. They take an interest in the visual appearance of the social interaction in the vicinity. A modern driver-flâneur would not mind sharing music listening , which currently is a private matter, with fellow road users. More so, he/she would particularly enjoy listening into the music being played in other cars. Here the visual appearance would be complemented with personally selected sounds. Such an approach to the design of social media for drivers would draw upon the things the driver pays attention to anyway, namely encountering other fellow drivers and their vehicles as part of the collaborative and situated work of moving the vehicle, and add a novel flavor to it to tease the driver’s curiosity and thereby enrich the experience of being in traffic.
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The chapter draws upon a previously published paper by Östergren and Juhlin (2006). Reprinted from the publication with permission from Springer Verlag.
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Twelve drivers were interviewed directly following the field trial. The interviews were loosely structured and performed by five different researchers. A loose structure interview has the advantage of letting the researcher investigate issues as raised by the individual participant. In this case, we wanted to acquire as many comments as possible about the system, rather than acquiring comparable results from the interviewees. All the researchers had a common set of topics to cover, but also had the freedom to skip some if they found them irrelevant to the test subject’s experience. This means that not all the participants answered all the questions, and we therefore show the answer frequency in conjunction with each question.
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Juhlin, O. (2010). The Automobile Flâneur—Joint Music Listening in Traffic Encounters. In: Social Media on the Road. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, vol 50. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-332-9_8
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