10 Year ago, we (Fredrik Öhrfelt, Mikael E Björling, Erik Kruse) submitted a paper “Converging Technology – Diverging Families” to ESOMAR. The paper was nominated to the ESOMAR award ”best research paper of the year”. The research we did 2006 was about technology usage in middleclass families in US, Sweden, and Spain. Well, is an understatement a lot of water has passed the bridge since this research was performed. This was pre- iPhone and Mobile Broadband, but interestingly many questions related to children’s usage is still the same today.
2006 not everything was published online, therefore I publish this paper again as it looked when it was printed in Resarch World.
Mikael is UX line manager and Senior Lead Designer at the Ericsson UX Lab heading up a team of UX designers, front end developers and user researchers at Ericsson’s UX Lab in Stockholm, Sweden. He was previously Director of the Networked Society Lab. Mikael’s specialty is in understanding how consumer behavior, emerging technologies and new industry logics are shaping the future society and at the intersection of these areas, innovate and build great user experiences. Mikael believes that with the ongoing digital transformation we have a great opportunity to shape a better world! Mikael joined Ericsson in 1998 and is based in Stockholm. You can engage with him on Twitter at: @mikaeleb or at LinkedIn.
10 Year ago, we (Fredrik Öhrfelt, Mikael E Björling, Erik Kruse) submitted a paper “Converging Technology – Diverging Families” to ESOMAR. The paper was nominated to the ESOMAR award ”best research paper of the year”. The research we did 2006 was about technology usage in middleclass families in US, Sweden, and Spain. Well, is an understatement a lot of water has passed the bridge since this research was performed. This was pre- iPhone and Mobile Broadband, but interestingly many questions related to children’s usage is still the same today.
Mikael Eriksson Björling 
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