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CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Sonic interventions: understanding and extending the domestic soundscape
This paper presents a new study of the role, importance and meaning of sound in the home. Drawing on interview data and sound recordings gathered from seven households, this study...
Gerard Oleksik, David Frohlich, Lorna M. Brown, Ab...
HUC
2007
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
"My Roomba Is Rambo": Intimate Home Appliances
Robots have entered our domestic lives, but yet, little is known about their impact on the home. This paper takes steps towards addressing this omission, by reporting results from ...
Ja-Young Sung, Lan Guo, Rebecca E. Grinter, Henrik...
PUC
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
Rhythms and plasticity: television temporality at home
Abstract Digital technologies have enabled new temporalities of media consumption in the home. Through a field study of home television viewing practices, we investigated temporal...
Lilly Irani, Robin Jeffries, Andrea Knight
PUC
2007
90views more  PUC 2007»
13 years 6 months ago
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
TEI
2009
ACM
97views Hardware» more  TEI 2009»
14 years 1 months ago
The other brother: re-experiencing spontaneous moments from domestic life
In this paper, we describe “The Other Brother”, a semiautonomous device that captures images and video of spontaneous moments in the course of everyday life. It was our goal t...
John Helmes, Caroline Hummels, Abigail Sellen