Future homes will be populated with large numbers of robots with diverse functionalities, ranging from chore robots to elder care robots to entertainment robots. While household r...
Tamara Denning, Cynthia Matuszek, Karl Koscher, Jo...
The profitability of banks world-wide has decreased from the early 1980s to the 1990s. This has been attributed to several factors: the decline of traditional banking activities (...
Christopher P. Holland, A. Geoffrey Lockett, Ian D...
Intimacy is a crucial element of domestic life, and many interactive technologies designed for other purposes have been appropriated for use within intimate relationships. However...
Frank Vetere, Martin R. Gibbs, Jesper Kjeldskov, S...
In this paper we argue that “persuasive technologies,” developed to motivate behaviour change in users, have so far failed to exploit the established body of empirical researc...
Ben Kirman, Conor Linehan, Shaun Lawson, Derek Fos...
The focus of this work is the requirements engineering process in the home care domain. The overall aim is to design and document a flexible methodology to facilitate the elicitat...