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CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Artful systems in the home
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 ...
Alex S. Taylor, Laurel Swan
PUC
2007
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Homes that make us smart
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,...
CANDC
2007
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
The resourcefulness of everyday design
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...
Ron Wakkary, Leah Maestri
PUC
2007
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13 years 5 months ago
Designing home availability services
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
HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 days ago
Robots in the wild: understanding long-term use
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...