This paper argues for the importance of home-related research on technology. Several important differences between researching homes and researching workplaces are described, and s...
Deploying research technology in real homes is an important way of uncovering new possibilities for design. We reflect upon the deployment of a simple technological arrangement wh...
Food is a central part of our lives. Fundamentally, we need food to survive. Socially, food is something that brings people together?individuals interact through and around it. Cu...
This paper presents the main results of a three-year long field and design study of proactive information technology in the home. This technology uses sensors to track human activ...
Ilpo Koskinen, Kristo Kuusela, Katja Battarbee, An...
Context awareness is the most important research area in ubiquitous computing. In particular, for smart home, context awareness attempts to bring the best services to the home hab...