Who’s on the Trail: Identifying Trail Uses with Affinity Diagrams

EasyChair Preprint 2436

Abstract

People spend time on trails for a great many reasons. Often their reasons overlap - sometimes in positive ways but occasionally in conflict. This position paper describes a brain-storming session that identified different reasons that people use trails, and a follow-up affinity diagramming session that identified commonalities in goals for trail use. We speculate on directions for another session, toward ultimately identifying design opportunities for encouraging community and defusing conflict.

Keyphrases: Affinity Diagrams, Technology, hiking, trail

@booklet{EasyChair:2436,
  author    = {Lindah Kotut and Michael Horning and D. Scott McCrickard},
  title     = {Who’s on the Trail: Identifying Trail Uses with Affinity Diagrams},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 2436},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2020}}