In this paper we introduce the idea of organizing systems. Through a number of examples from an ongoing ethnographic study of family life, we suggest that organizing systems come ...
In this article we consider what it should mean to build ‘‘smartness’’ or ‘‘intelligence’’ into the home. We introduce an argument suggesting that it is people who ...
Alex S. Taylor, Richard H. R. Harper, Laurel Swan,...
We discuss our study that looks at family members as everyday designers. We explain the design actions of family members to be creative, as evidenced by the resourceful appropriat...
Abstract We have explored the challenges of designing domestic services to help family and friends determine mutually agreeable times to call. In our first study, we identified a...
Kristine S. Nagel, Ja-Young Sung, Gregory D. Abowd
It has long been recognized that novelty effects exist in the interaction with technologies. Despite this recognition, we still know little about the novelty effects associated wi...
Ja-Young Sung, Henrik I. Christensen, Rebecca E. G...