We present a study of how householders personalize their domestic vacuuming robot, iRobot’s Roomba™. In particular, we build on Blom and Monk’s [3] theory of personalization...
Ja-Young Sung, Rebecca E. Grinter, Henrik I. Chris...
Although domestic computer use is increasing, most efforts to reduce energy use through improved power management have focused on computers in the workplace. We studied 20 househo...
Marshini Chetty, A. J. Bernheim Brush, Brian Meyer...
Eliciting user preferences for large datasets and creating rankings based on these preferences has many practical applications in community-based sites. This paper gives a new met...
As robots become more pervasive, operators will develop richer relationships with them. In a 2 (robot form: humanoid vs. car) x 2 (assembler: self vs. other) between-participants ...
Victoria Groom, Leila Takayama, Paloma Ochi, Cliff...
Millions of people in Canada have impairments that result in a loss of function and directly affect their ability to carry out activities of daily living. Many individuals with di...