The IMPACT OF DIGITAL COMMUNICATION DEVICES ON FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTIONS IN PUBLIC SPACES.
THE CASE STUDY OF COFFEEHOUSES IN CAIRO, EGYPT.
Keywords:
Digital Communication Devices, Face-To-Face Interactions, Sense of Space, Social Interactions, Physical space, CoffeehousesAbstract
In public spaces, social interactions turned from physical interactions into virtual interaction (Oldenburg, 1999). Physical interaction, face-to-face interaction, weakens when people start to use Digital Communication Devices (DCD) in the physical space (Drago, 2015). The aim of the proposed study is to review the impact of DCD usage on social interactions in public spaces in Egypt, and how does time spent on DCD affect face-to-face interaction. A quantitative study will be applied to Coffeehouses in Cairo as places for leisure. Data will be collected through observations, interviews, and questionnaires to explore how time spent in physical spaces with the integration of virtual space; how DCD changes the interaction between people and how people experience the physical space. Each coffeehouse listed in the study was observed for twelve hours, a total of thirty-six hours. Eighteen interviews were conducted and surveys were collected from sixty patrons to reveal patron's attitudes toward the physical and social aspects of the coffeehouse as well as their feelings regarding the community in which they live.
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