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PUC
2007
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Probing user values in the home environment within a technology driven Smart Home project
Smart Home technology looks set to become an increasingly common feature of domestic life. However commercial desire for technical innovation rather than explicit user needs are of...
Victoria Haines, Val Mitchell, Catherine Cooper, M...
PUC
2007
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Digital homes on wheels: designing for the unimagined home
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...
Alexandra Zafiroglu, Michele Chang
PUC
2007
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Back to the shed: gendered visions of technology and domesticity
One of the tropes of the age of ubiquitous computing is the migration of computation into new spaces. Domestic environments have been a particular focus of attention for many. Howe...
Genevieve Bell, Paul Dourish
PUC
2007
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Designing technologies for presence-in-absence: illustrating the Cube and the Picture Frame
Presence-in-absence is a subjective feeling of a significant other when he or she is not physically copresent and several emerging technologies increasingly aim to support this fe...
Kasper Garnæs, Olga Grünberger, Jesper ...