Power to the Electric Car People: The Infrastructuring of Charging

Michael Kvist Svangren; John Stouby Persson; Peter Axel Nielsen; Mikael B. Skov

Power to the Electric Car People: The Infrastructuring of Charging

Michael Kvist Svangren, John Stouby Persson, Peter Axel Nielsen, Mikael B. Skov

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Abstract

Driving an electric car relies on physical, digital, and human infrastructure. However, the charging infrastructure along with breakdowns and the work that people do to recover, that is, infrastructuring, remain understudied in HCI. In this paper, we present a study of 19 Danish electric car drivers and their infrastructuring to recover from breakdowns they encounter in charging their car in public. We describe the three most reoccurring types of infrastructuring with inherent breakdowns making charging infrastructure visible to the electric car driver: (1) Adjusting to conventions of parking, (2) Navigating the standards of charging services, and (3) Learning through community participation. Drawing upon the extant research, we discuss how our study contributes to a deeper understanding of the use of charging infrastructure and its implications for future research and design.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	NordiCHI'22 - Proceedings of the 12th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication status	Accepted/In press - Oct 2022
Event	NordiCHI'22 - Proceedings of the 12th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: NordiCHI'22 - Denmark, Aarhus Duration: 10 Oct 2022 → 12 Oct 2022 https://conferences.au.dk/nordichi2022

Conference

Conference	NordiCHI'22 - Proceedings of the 12th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Location	Denmark
City	Aarhus
Period	10/10/2022 → 12/10/2022
Internet address	https://conferences.au.dk/nordichi2022

UN SDGs

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Interacting with Cars in Digital Ecologies
Svangren, M. K.
01/10/2017 → 30/09/2019
Project: Research

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Power to the Electric Car People: The Infrastructuring of Charging. / Svangren, Michael Kvist ; Persson, John Stouby ; Nielsen, Peter Axel et al.

NordiCHI'22 - Proceedings of the 12th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, 2022.

Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

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Power to the Electric Car People: The Infrastructuring of Charging

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