The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the ways many people use computational systems. We conducted an empirical study, using qualitative and quantitative analyses of free-response surveys completed by 62 US residents, to explore how COVID-19 affected their computer use across work, education, home life, and social life. Nearly all participants experienced an increase in computer usage for themselves or a family member in one or more of the four domains. The increases involved both increasing frequency of existing uses as well as the adoption of new types of use. Changes in usage impacted many aspects of people's lives, including relationships, affective experiences, and life trajectories. Understanding these changes is important to the future of HCI, as the field adapts to COVID-19 and potential future pandemics.

翻译：COVID-19大流行改变了许多人使用计算系统的方式,我们利用62名美国居民完成的自由反应调查的定性和定量分析,进行了一项实证研究,以探讨COVID-19如何影响他们在整个工作、教育、家庭生活和社会生活中的计算机使用,几乎所有参与者在四个领域的一个或一个以上领域,他们自己或家庭成员的计算机使用都有所增加,增加既涉及增加现有使用的频率,也涉及采用新类型的使用,使用的变化影响到人们生活的许多方面,包括关系、情感体验和生命轨迹,了解这些变化对于HCI的未来十分重要,因为该领域适应COVID-19和潜在的未来流行病。