Design for the digital home is often predicated on an ideal, imagined domestic space that is expansive, stable, occupied by a ‘‘busy’’ nuclear family, and does not always m...
As part of an ongoing effort to understand ease of use of digital home technologies, we undertook an exploratory study of people who use their home networks for more than just bro...
Sara A. Bly, Bill N. Schilit, David W. McDonald, B...
This paper exploits ethnographic findings to build on and elaborate Grinter et al’s 2005 study of “the work to make the home network work”. We focus particularly on the work ...
Peter Tolmie, Andy Crabtree, Tom Rodden, Chris Gre...
Recent research suggests design pre-patterns, structured collections of evidence-based research and design knowledge, provide a useful resource for design activities in emerging a...
T. Scott Saponas, Madhu K. Prabaker, Gregory D. Ab...
This paper describes the rationale and design process for Shoebox, a “digital box” that combines the storage and display of digital images in the home in one unit. By combinin...