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COBUILD
1999
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
The Importance of Homes in Technology Research
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...
Debby Hindus
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Magic cards: a paper tag interface for implicit robot control
Typical Human Robot Interaction (HRI) assumes that the user explicitly interacts with robots. However, explicit control with robots can be unnecessary or even undesirable in certa...
Shengdong Zhao, Koichi Nakamura, Kentaro Ishii, Ta...
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Threshold devices: looking out from the home
Threshold devices present information gathered from the home's surroundings to give new views on the domestic situation. We built two prototypes of different threshold device...
William W. Gaver, Andy Boucher, Andy Law, Sarah Pe...
CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Sabbath day home automation: "it's like mixing technology and religion"
We present a qualitative study of 20 American Orthodox Jewish families' use of home automation for religious purposes. These lead users offer insight into real-life, longterm...
Allison Woodruff, Sally Augustin, Brooke E. Foucau...