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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
It's not easy being green: understanding home computer power management
Although domestic computer use is increasing, most efforts to reduce energy use through improved power management have focused on computers in the workplace. We studied 20 househo...
Marshini Chetty, A. J. Bernheim Brush, Brian Meyer...
ACMDIS
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
The history tablecloth: illuminating domestic activity
The History Tablecloth is a flexible substrate screen-printed with electroluminescent material forming a grid of lace-like elements. When objects are left on the table, cells bene...
William W. Gaver, John Bowers, Andy Boucher, Andy ...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Threshold devices: looking out from the home
Threshold devices present information gathered from the home's surroundings to give new views on the domestic situation. We built two prototypes of different threshold device...
William W. Gaver, Andy Boucher, Andy Law, Sarah Pe...
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Location-dependent information appliances for the home
Ethnographic studies of the home revealed the fundamental roles that physical locations and context play in how household members understand and manage conventional information. Y...
Kathryn Elliot, Mark Watson, Carman Neustaedter, S...
OZCHI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Interpersonal awareness in the domestic realm
Family and friends naturally maintain an awareness of each other on an ongoing basis (e.g., knowing one’s schedule, health issues) and many technologies are now being contemplat...
Carman Neustaedter, Kathryn Elliot, Saul Greenberg