Season's Greetings: An Analysis of Christmas Card Use

Gooch, Daniel and Kelly, Ryan (2016). Season's Greetings: An Analysis of Christmas Card Use. In: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI EA '16, ACM, New York, pp. 2105–2111.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2892341

Abstract

Christmas is the time of year when people reaffirm social connections through the medium of Christmas cards. Although much communication in the modern age is conducted via electronic means, many people continue to send and receive paper-based cards during the festive season. With a view to understanding practices surrounding the use of digital and paper-based media, this paper explores the use of paper-based and electronic Christmas cards among a sample of university students. We describe students’ practices regarding Christmas cards, examining what they do, why they do it, and what they value about both paper and electronic cards. Our analysis leads to a number of design challenges for the development of electronic alternatives to paper-based cards.

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