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1999
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The Importance of Homes in Technology Research

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The Importance of Homes in Technology Research
This paper argues for the importance of home-related research on technology. Several important differences between researching homes and researching workplaces are described, and several issues in conducting homerelated research are discussed in the context of specific research efforts. Ways to advance home-related research as a discipline are presented, including an existing course on technology design with a home focus. Keywords. Domestic technologies, residential technologies, personal computing, home computing, consumers, homes, computer-human interaction, CSCW, media spaces, design.
Debby Hindus
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Type Conference
Year 1999
Where COBUILD
Authors Debby Hindus
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