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Distraction or Life Saver?: The Role of Technology in Undergraduate Students' Boundary Management Strategies
Ist Teil von
Proceedings of the ACM on human-computer interaction, 2017-12, Vol.1 (CSCW), p.1-18, Article 68
Ort / Verlag
New York, NY, USA: ACM
Erscheinungsjahr
2017
Quelle
ACM Digital Library
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Previous research has shown that communication technologies may make it challenging for working professionals to manage the boundaries between their work life and home life. For college students, however, there is a less clear definition of what constitutes work and what constitutes home life. As a result, students may use different boundary management strategies than working professionals. To explore this issue, we interviewed 29 undergraduates about how they managed boundaries between different areas of their life. Interviewees reported maintaining flexible and permeable boundaries that are not bounded physically or temporally. They used both technological and non-technological strategies to manage different life spheres. Interviewees saw technology as a major source of boundary violations but also as a boundary managing strategy that allowed them to achieve better life balance. Based on these findings, we propose design implications for tools to better support the boundary management processes of undergraduate students.