: Relatively higher cost, worse extensibility of the monitoring points and weaker mobility are those disadvantages that widely exist in the wire data collection system of the tradi...
Abstract. Our goal in this paper is to clearly delineate how households currently manage communication and coordination information; this will provide practitioners and designers w...
The primary goal of the project was to understand the cultural similarities and differences in perception, adoption and usage of technology across three cultures (US, India and Ch...
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 ...
This paper presents findings from a qualitative study of people’s everyday interactions with energy-consuming products and systems in the home. Initial results from a large onli...