Home Experience Research Articles

Exploring Work from Home

Working from home and work flexibility have been highly researched academic topicsover the past forty years, and their importance was further amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic. Numerous qualitative and quantitative studies were aimed at betterunderstanding this work arrangement, but they often encountered the challenges oflimited scope and the inability to generalize their results. The goal of this study was totest the consistency of the instrument used in measuring the experiences of workingfrom home for Croatian engineers, check the presence of its latent dimensions, andfinally determine whether these dimensions could predict engineers’ job satisfaction.Three factors were extracted by exploratory factor analysis (productivity and workquality, work-life balance, and organizations’ distrust and control), while the multiplelinear regression analysis ran on those factors as predictors proved that, although worklife balance does not influence job satisfaction, productivity and work quality positively predict it, while organizations’ distrust and control do so negatively.

ПРАКСЕ ИНТИМНОСТИ ДЕЦЕ У ПОРОДИЧНОМ ДОМУ

As the family home is a gathering place for the whole family and as it best expresses the ways of family communication, family cohesion, solidarity and the routine of family life, it is the family home that can reveal more about the practices of intimacy. The subject of this paper is the intimacy practices of children in the family home with the aim of revealing the influence of the spatial organization of the family home on the relationships between family members and intra-family dynamics. The basic research questions concerned the personal perception of intimacy, the ways of its manifestation, the experience of home and the relationship between personal and shared space, as well as the connection between space and emotions, which was contributed by the method of emotional maps.

Work–Life Balance and Work from Home Experience: Perceived Organizational Support and Resilience of European Workers during COVID-19

During the COVID-19 pandemic, most workers had to work from home due to the successive lockdowns across European countries. This constraint posed significant challenges to many workers and companies regarding working conditions and work–life balance. Framed by the job demands–resources model (JD–R), the goal of this paper is to examine the association of perceived organizational support (POS) and individual resilience (IR) with work–life balance (WLB) during the COVID-19 pandemic across European countries. This goal is complemented by assessing the role of work-from-home (WFH) as a mediator. Based on a quantitative approach, data were extracted from the second round of the survey “Living, Working, and COVID-19” from Eurofound. A series of regressions using SEM-PLS tested the hypothesis. Findings reveal that WFH negatively influences WLB. POS positively influences WFH and negatively influences WLB when mediated by WFH. IR negatively influences WFH and positively influences WLB when mediated by WFH. These results have essential theoretical implications related to the relations between individual and organizational resources and WLB and practical implications for the management of WFH, namely, the importance of providing adequate organizational resources and promoting the development of individual resources.

Living rooms: Anne Tallentire’s Material Distance

Cultural geography has a long and fruitful tradition of working at the intersections between geography and performance art: in this piece we build upon this by considering how artistic practice can shed light on the housing crisis via a focus on quotidian practices of housing design. Here, we focus on Anne Tallentire’s exhibition Material Distance, which took place in 2022–23 at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK. A conceptual artist working with moving image, installation, performance and photography, Tallentire’s work has frequently addressed issues of spatial cognition, homemaking and transience. Material Distance extends this interest by foregrounding issues of housing size, adopting the abstract forms of representation – floorplans, measurements, technical drawings – which professionals use for determining the material and physical requirements of domestic inhabitation. Contrasting abstract and lived experiences of home, and comparing housing constructed on post-war council estates with some of the smaller homes recently converted from industrial or retail premises, Tallentire’s work invites us to develop a critical awareness of dimensionality through an embodied encounter with art that is relational, performative and experiential.

Design and field trial of EmotionFrame: exploring self-journaling experiences in homes for archiving personal feelings about daily events

ABSTRACT Capturing people’s spontaneous thoughts or daily emotions in their everyday living space can be difficult and can pose a psychological burden from a clinical standpoint. To address this issue, we have developed EmotionFrame, which allows users to archive their daily experiences by recording videos of their current thoughts and emotions at home. EmotionFrame serves as a journaling device, and the parameters for journaling have been determined based on a depression assessment model. This study explores the benefits of users’ recording feelings about their daily events, which can also help with assessing depressive mood with the journaling data. Our three-week in-field study with eight participants showed that EmotionFrame could be integrated into participants’ daily routines based on their previous diary-writing habits. In addition, its harmonious frame shape fits in with the everyday environment. Being able to engage in spontaneous journaling in private spaces – and in a way that allowed them to see themselves – prompted the study participants to effectively record their sincere thoughts and emotions during the archiving process.

Exploring Work from Home Experiences: A Study of Information Technology-Business Process Outsourcing Employees in Makati City during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Exploring Work from Home Experiences: A Study of Information Technology-Business Process Outsourcing Employees in Makati City during the COVID-19 Pandemic

EXPLORING THE INFLUENCE OF BROKEN HOMES ON CHILDREN'S MINDSETS: A QUALITATIVE STUDY

A broken home represents a distressing family crisis characterized by chaos, disorganization and a loss of purpose, which significantly impacts the mindset of children. This research aims to investigate the mindset of children who come from broken homes. Qualitative methods, accompanied by descriptive analysis, were used as a research approach. The study sought to examine the mindset of children before, during, and after experiencing a broken home. Before the occurrence of a broken home, children generally hold a mindset that perceives their family as a source of happiness and warmth. They view their parents as a reliable refuge, providing them with shelter and emotional support in all aspects of their lives. However, when confronted with a broken home situation, the children's mindset undergoes a notable transformation. They may experience feelings of hopelessness, believing they are unworthy of happiness. Consequently, they may exhibit a reluctance to engage in social interactions, encounter unmet needs, neglect their educational and home responsibilities, and develop feelings of fear and pessimism. Following the experience of a broken home, children gradually rebuild their mindset. They work towards regaining their lost self-concept that was impacted by the divorce or separation. This process often involves fostering independence and striving to achieve personal goals. It is important to note that a child's mindset tends to evolve as they grow older and gain more knowledge and experiences, ultimately contributing to a more developed mindset.

Data-Driven Futuristic Scenarios: Smart Home Service Experience Foresight Based on Social Media Data

Exploring future scenarios can consider future generations and society from a long-term perspective. A Futures Triangle is an approach used for mapping future scenarios. In general, the Futures Triangle collects weak signals using qualitative research methods. However, collecting weak signals qualitatively is limited by its small data size and manual data analysis errors. To overcome those limitations, this study proposes the data-driven futuristic scenario approach. This approach analyzes a large number of social perceptions existing in social networks as weak signals via semantic network analysis. Using our proposed data-driven approach, researchers can quantitatively collect weak signals for a Futures Triangle. To verify the applicability of the proposed method, we conducted a case study on the Chinese smart home service experience. The dataset consists of 2421 posts containing the keyword “smart home experience” on the Chinese social media platform Weibo. Three future scenarios were constructed using the proposed method. The results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed methodology. The data-driven futuristic scenario approach has the advantage of quantitatively analyzing a large amount of stakeholder data to provide weak signals for the Futures Triangle. We suggest that the data-driven futuristic scenario approach serves as a supplementary method, combined with the traditional Futures Triangle approach, to comprehensively explore future scenarios.

“This is My kingdom”: Inside the Kitchen Spaces of Lebanese Australian Women

ABSTRACT Migrants’ homemaking practices create a series of spatial inscriptions within their domestic environments, leaving behind a unique echo of cultural and personal history. Such spatial imprints, when approached through an architectural lens, become crucial in understanding the multifaceted nature of the migrant experience of home. One specific area of the migrant home that offers rich insights into this phenomenon is the kitchen. Kitchens are often the heart of the household, where family life unfolds and where the synthesis of cultural and social life takes place. For the Lebanese Australian women in this study, these kitchens serve as significant locations where their culture and identities contribute to Australian domestic architecture. These contributions are unique but unrecognised. This paper explores the transformation of suburban kitchens and the diverse behaviours that mirror the women’s various roles as mothers, household managers, cooks, teachers, housewives, and “Sit al byt” (the lady of the house). It delves into the daily experiences of 16 Lebanese Australian women, examining kitchens as hubs for food production, leisure, household management, and symbols of communication, and recognising how food production extends beyond the confines of the kitchen in Lebanese Australian homes.

YI-FU TUAN’S LEGACY: IMPACTS ON THE GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW, DISCIPLINES, SCHOLARSHIP, AND TEACHING

ABSTRACT Yi-Fu Tuan published extensively in a number of outlets throughout his long career, including in the Geographical Review between 1968 and 2002. While Tuan’s influence on research and teaching in geography was far reaching, he also inspired scholars in other disciplines, such as education and environmental psychology. This retrospective essay commemorates Tuan’s relationship with the Geographical Review and brings together a diverse group of scholars in geography, science education, and environmental psychology, who address Tuan’s influence on their professional and personal lives, research, and teaching. Reoccurring themes across all the individual essays include place, home, and human experience. In addition, each author stresses the broader implications of Tuan’s scholarship on peace, love, caring, and belonging.

Disability and homeschooling: Parents experiences in Kazakhstan

AbstractThere are several special education provisions for children with disabilities in Kazakhstan, including home education which is characterized as an alternative model of education to mainstream and private educational organizations. Hence, parents become the central figure in managing the home education process as the meeting special needs of children depends on their knowledge and experience. The present study explores parents’ experiences in home educating a child with special needs in one town outside the capital city of Nursultan. The data was collected through face‐to‐face interviews with six parents in a qualitative multiple case study design. The findings highlight the way the diagnosis of a child’s special needs impacts the psychological, social and financial dimensions of parents’ life. Moreover, the findings of the present study illustrate some of the challenges and opportunities parents experience in home‐educating their children. These include teachers’ specialised knowledge and skills, social isolation, involvement in school activities, and the provision of educational resources for home education.

British Yemeni Young People’s Experience of Body Image, Home, Food, Language, and Religion

Abstract This paper provides an in-depth knowledge on the social practices of an under-researched ethnic group in the UK, the British Yemenis. Through an exploration of their lived activities in the context of the conduct of everyday life, this study uses photo-novella and semi-structured interviews in combination, to present five main themes which emerged from the study. These are body image, food, home, language, and religion. The paper shows how British Yemeni young people connect and disconnect, at different levels, times, and context, with mainstream British cultures and Yemeni subcultures, displaying elements of cultural hybridity that are unique to these individuals, yet at the same time provides some information on the Yemeni community. The study follows the daily activities of six British Yemeni young people in a longitudinal manner, exploring an understanding of how social structures and cultures have, and are continuously, impacting the young people’s conduct of everyday life. The study also contributes to the use of intersectionality and post-colonialism as analytic tools in the study of young people’s lived experiences.

Experiences of ‘sensory space-time compression’ in migrant homemaking

ABSTRACT Research examining migrant homemaking is multi-disciplinary and well-developed, providing evidence that ‘home’ exists in multiple places. However, only a small component of this work examines the role of the senses. This paper draws on research conducted between 2015 and 2019 in Glasgow, a city in Scotland, UK, with migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women that used photo elicitation interviews, to bridge the gap between scholarship on migrant homemaking and the senses. The paper empirically demonstrates how the senses allow migrants to cultivate the embodied experience of physically being elsewhere by drawing on sensory memories, practices, and material cultures, specifically engaging taste and smell. The paper analyses the experience of four participants who described this sensation, and addresses the impact of the security of migrant status and financial resources in sensory homemaking. The concluding discussion proposes the concept of ‘sensory space-time compression’ as a novel way of understanding the sensory experiences of home in the context of migration.

Comparative Spatial Intimacies and the Affective Geography of Home: Imaginaries and Sense-Regimes in the Soviet-Era Baltics

This essay investigates Soviet-era homesites in the Baltic states as combinations of home imaginaries and people’s affective, sensorial relationship to the materiality of their home space. The aspect of relationality is foregrounded: the primary level of meaning-making as regards one’s quotidian home life, the article suggests, takes place at the level of comparative spatial intimacies—that is, in relation to one’s own bodily movement in space and the objects, locations, impressions, but also the ideas, norms, and values encountered and embedded in these movements. Home experience unfolds on the scene of comparative studies, where different homes form dialogues and chains of movement in space. Both intimacies and imaginaries emerge as multiscalar, being deeply personal and closely family related, but also generational and class related, and including also transnational and/or officially endorsed ideas and values. The scene of comparative intimacies is exemplified on the basis of three homesites: Soviet prefab apartment buildings, pre-Soviet farm homes, and Soviet-era summer homes. The common homing model in the Soviet-era Baltics included at least two, if not three homely sites: while most people lived in urban environments, summer vacations were typically spent in a pre-Soviet farm home or in a recently built summer home. Of these different homescapes, each supported their inhabitants’ identities in their own specific ways, each offered a different regime of spatial sensibilities, a different combination of sensations, relationscapes, and imaginaries. The essay accommodates methods of geopoetics and includes analysis of fictional texts, life writing, and the embodied presence of the author.

IDF2022-0149 Diabetic Foot – an experience of Home Visits to provide foot care at Lisbon city – Portugal

IDF2022-0149 Diabetic Foot – an experience of Home Visits to provide foot care at Lisbon city – Portugal

Distance Learning Home Experience and the Food Preparation Skills of Grade 9 Students in Technology and Livelihood Education

Distance Learning Home Experience and the Food Preparation Skills of Grade 9 Students in Technology and Livelihood Education

The Effects of Language Experience in Both Home and School Environments for Spanish-English Bilingual Children: A Preliminary Study

ABSTRACT The amount of language input bilingual children receive influences their language acquisition. This three-year quasi-longitudinal study determined the extent home language input influences measures of expressive and receptive English vocabulary among Spanish-English school-age bilingual children. The study also determined whether a relationship exists between school of attendance and measures of expressive and receptive English vocabulary among the same group of children. One Spanish-English dual-immersion school and one English-only school in Utah participated in the study. Participants were administered two formal measures of receptive and expressive English once a year for three consecutive years. Results indicate that regardless of their home language, all children demonstrated improvements in receptive and expressive English language skills after three years. Between year one and three, the increase in English receptive language measures were statistically significant among the children who primarily heard Spanish at home. Results revealed that all children made advancements in expressive and receptive vocabulary skills, regardless of their home language and the type of school they attended. Findings suggest that exposure to a language other than English at home is not a detriment to English language development. Additionally, bilingual education is as effective as English-only education in fostering children‘s vocabulary skills in English.

Life and work between home and “homeland”: a narrative inquiry of transnational Chinese adoptees’ identity negotiations across time and space

Abstract Unlike Korean or Vietnamese adoptees who came to the U.S. during the postwar era, Chinese adoptees are mostly abandoned female infants under China’s one-child policy from 1980 through 2015. Little work has documented Chinese adoptees’ identity (trans)formation across time and space. This study examines how three Chinese adoptees from the U.S. who chose to go to Taiwan to teach English make sense of their Chinese heritages and their lives in and out of Asia. Drawing on the frameworks of positioning and chronotopic identities, this cross-sectional, multiple case study documents the participants’ identity (trans)formations through their narratives on their moves across the U.S., China, and Taiwan during different points of their lives. Our adoptee participants’ home and work experiences over time represent diverse pathways for their negotiations of various aspects of their identities – linguistic, cultural, Chinese, American, Asian American, and adoptee – in their life trajectories transnationally. Their diverse experiences complicate current understandings of adoptee identities within and across the adoptive home, the “homeland” of their birth places, and beyond.

Distance Learning Home Experience and the Food Preparation Skills of Grade 9 Students in Technology and Livelihood Education

This study was conducted to determine the relationship between the distance learning home experience and the food preparation skills of Grade-9 students in Technology and Livelihood Education. The Descriptive-Correlational research design was adopted, and statistical tools such as Pearson r correlational analysis were utilized to test the relationship between the independent and dependent variables. Hypotheses were tested, and the findings revealed the following information: Using Pearson’s r correlation analysis, the data revealed that internet access is moderate negative significance to preparing fruits and vegetables, the use of a cooker, and cooking methods for Grade 9 TLE students. The knife is a moderate negative significance with online learning resources. Home assistance is moderate negative significance to preparing fruits and vegetables, using a cooker, and cooking techniques and thus the null hypothesis is not sustained. Hence, timely feedback, time allotment, and instructional delivery have no significant relationship with the food preparation skills of the learners thus the null hypothesis is sustained in this respect. It indicates that the learners experienced all the distance learning at home but when it comes to the food preparation skills, they still need the guidance of the teachers in performing their skills. It only shows that the teacher plays a vital role in improving the food preparation skills of the learners in distance learning. Having these findings, the study recommends that a comprehensive professional development program be implemented to ensure that online teachers will be given a chance to improve themselves in teaching virtually continuously; teachers are given technical assistance through training, workshop, coaching, and mentoring on class programming, and sharing of assignments, learning management specifically in managing online classes using the ICT and managing the school facilities and equipment may be considered as possible topics in the future learning and development programs for the teachers and future researchers may conduct a study on the distance learning experience of learners at home in the food preparation skills of the learners on a broader scale. Keywords: distance learning, home experience, food preparation skills, Technology, and Livelihood Education

What housing characteristics support seniors? Seniors’ experiences of housing and home in New Zealand during the COVID-19 pandemic

PurposeThis paper aims to explore what can be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic about adaptable, functional housing design that supports seniors’ resilience. This paper considers how physical and design features enable seniors to stay safe, develop coping strategies, give and receive care and maintain social connections.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative research strategy incorporating thematic analysis was used, involving interviews and one focus group with seniors and interviews with housing providers and community organisations supporting seniors. Forty-eight semi-structured interviews were conducted with 54 seniors aged over 60 years living independently, not in aged care. Interviewees were selected to cover a range of ages and housing circumstances. Semi-structured interviews were also conducted with 20 organisations.FindingsThe physical, amenity and design aspects of the living environment that support seniors’ well-being and resilience during a pandemic are: the ability to receive essential goods and services in the home; sufficient space and storage; flexible and adaptable living spaces; access to private indoor and outdoor space; ability to garden and grow food; having an outlook or view; functional heating, ventilation and appliances; and dwelling location allowing access to green spaces, food stores and services. The ability of housing to facilitate social connections is a fundamental enabler of seniors’ resilience.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to knowledge about physical and design aspects of the dwelling that enable protection and care in a pandemic and how that can help to future-proof housing. Its focus on enabling seniors’ resilience through housing recognises the growing significance of structural population ageing for housing design and delivery and the central role of housing to ageing-in-place policies that underpin health and welfare provision.