Phase 2 - Relax-Concentrate-Create Student Household Studies
The rcc (Relax-Concentrate-Create) process is an award winning business application developed by HSLU. Over the four years of the study, students in a resource management course explored and documented ways to use VAs to be more efficient in the creativity cycle of relaxing, concentrating and creating. In total over 250 journals from differnt students were collected.
The rcc study allowed us to learn about VA attitudes, behaviors, practices and routines from a younger age group that can generally be described as digital natives. We could learn how their expectations about and experiences with VA differed from that of the participants from the in-home study. RCC participants had to engage with the VA technology in one way or another while the participants from the in-Home study had volunteered to do so and was generally much more open to use VAs. This also means that changes in practices and routines among those participants tend to follow from the tasks these participants had to solve. Overall, we could get a better sense about the general knowledge and awareness of VAs in Switzerland.
The biggest behavioral change I’ve noticed is that I use my phone less. If I want something that I know I can do with VA, I just talk briefly on my cell phone instead of picking it up.Participant 403 4-3
Insights and Results
The analysis of the journals provided new insights for the VA-PEPR study, which are discussed in more detail in the following publications:
WE STILL FEEL A BIT UNCOMFORTABLE WHEN WE TALK TO SIRI IN PUBLIC. PEOPLE LOOK AT US QUITE STRANGELY. WE ARE AWARE THAT THIS WILL BECOME ESTABLISHED OVER TIME. BUT IT’S DOUBLY UNCOMFORTABLE WHEN SIRI GIVES YOU A RANDOM ANSWER… YOU FEEL A BIT STUPID.Participant 403 F-2