The Family Archive device is an interactive multi-touch tabletop technology with integrated capture facility for the archiving of sentimental artefacts and memorabilia. It was dev...
David S. Kirk, Shahram Izadi, Abigail Sellen, Stua...
Technology, it is argued, has the potential to improve everyone's life: from the workplace, to entertainment, to easing chores around the home. But what of people who have ne...
A prototype device is described that allows a user to understand and contemplate the inner workings of a common home appliance, the refrigerator. The device monitors select physic...
This paper gives a technical description of Creatures, a commercial home-entertainment software package. Creatures provides a simulated environment in which exist a number of synt...
The Home Network is a pervasive environment by nature. Its openness to dynamic distributed and heterogeneous devices brings great challenges in home application design. We present...