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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Extraordinary computing: religion as a lens for reconsidering the home
We present results from a study examining how American Protestant Christians' faith affects their domestic life. There are two contributions of this work for the HCI communit...
Susan Wyche, Rebecca E. Grinter
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Artful systems in the home
In this paper we introduce the idea of organizing systems. Through a number of examples from an ongoing ethnographic study of family life, we suggest that organizing systems come ...
Alex S. Taylor, Laurel Swan
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
The domestic economy: a broader unit of analysis for end user programming
Domestic ubicomp applications often assume individual users will program and configure their technology in isolation, decoupled from complex domestic environments in which they ar...
Jennifer A. Rode, Eleanor F. Toye, Alan F. Blackwe...
HCI
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Habitat Computing: Towards the Creation of Tech-Enabled Mexican Neighborhoods
The use of personal computers and Internet at home is becoming more and more common in some developing countries such as Mexico, where affordable prices and credit plans have contr...
Víctor M. González, Luís A. C...
HUC
2004
Springer
14 years 23 days ago
Some Assembly Required: Supporting End-User Sensor Installation in Domestic Ubiquitous Computing Environments
This paper explores end-user sensor installation for domestic ubiquitous computing applications and proposes five design principles to support this task. End-user sensor installati...
Chris Beckmann, Sunny Consolvo, Anthony LaMarca