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ECSCW
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Making the Home Network at Home: Digital Housekeeping
This paper exploits ethnographic findings to build on and elaborate Grinter et al’s 2005 study of “the work to make the home network work”. We focus particularly on the work ...
Peter Tolmie, Andy Crabtree, Tom Rodden, Chris Gre...
INTERACT
2007
13 years 8 months ago
ICEbox: Toward Easy-to-Use Home Networking
Home networking is becoming an essential part of everyday life. However, empirical studies and consumer reports indicate that the complexities of configuring and maintaining the ho...
Jeonghwa Yang, W. Keith Edwards
AINA
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Home Appliance Translator for Remote Control of Conventional Home Appliance
Abstract— We developed the HAT (Home Appliance Translator) and HAT-Sub to enable conventional appliances without telecommunication capabilities to connect to home networks. The d...
Hiroshi Kuriyama, Hiroshi Mineno, Tadanori Mizuno,...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Broken expectations in the digital home
As part of an ongoing effort to understand ease of use of digital home technologies, we undertook an exploratory study of people who use their home networks for more than just bro...
Sara A. Bly, Bill N. Schilit, David W. McDonald, B...
ISCC
2002
IEEE
14 years 10 days ago
HomeMAC: QoS-based MAC protocol for the home network
We believe that existing wire solutions such as HomePNA2.0 and HomePlug and wireless solution such as HomeRF are the most promising solutions, because of its cost-effectiveness. H...
Won-Joo Hwang, Makoto Wada, Hideki Tode, Koso Mura...