Finding a Place for UbiComp in the Home

Crabtree, Andy; Rodden, Tom; Hemmings, Terry; Benford, Steve

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-39653-6_17

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“…We extend the notion of places by investigating what the location of a piece of information tells people about it, and how this meta-data and context helps household members cope with and organize communication information. That is, information spaces are not only interwoven with action and activity (as Crabtree et al describes [2,3,15]), but are also interwoven with time, ownership and awareness.…”

Section: We Describe What Types Of Communication Information Are Presmentioning

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“…This may be a simple reminder to oneself, as in the example of a person putting a video to be returned by the door, so they can see it as they leave and infer that it is ready to be returned. This is one direct way space is interwoven with action, as in Crabtree et al's Coordinate Displays [2,3].…”

Section: Spatial Ownership (Implicit or Explicit) Indicates Or Impliementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The most relevant related work is by Crabtree et al [2,3], whose publications motivated us to find out more about the value of locations in the home. Our approach and Crabtree et al's differed.…”

Section: Confirming and Extending Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several researchers have already begun to explore various aspects of communication in the home, e.g., [1,2,3,7]. In particular, Crabtree et al's study identifies "prime sites" in the home for introducing ubiquitous technology to support communication [2,3].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In particular, Crabtree et al's study identifies "prime sites" in the home for introducing ubiquitous technology to support communication [2,3]. They found that space in the home "...does not simply 'contain' action then, but is interwoven with action in various functional ways."…”

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Time, Ownership and Awareness: The Value of Contextual Locations in the Home

Elliot

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Greenberg

2005

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Our goal in this paper is to clearly delineate how households currently manage communication and coordination information; this will provide practitioners and designers with a more complete view of information in the home, and how technology embedded within the home can augment communication and coordination of home inhabitants. Through contextual interviews, we identify five types of communicative information: reminders and alerts, awareness and scheduling, notices, visual displays, and resource coordination. These information types are created and understood by home inhabitants as a function of contextual locations within the home.

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Section: We Describe What Types Of Communication Information Are Presmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Spatial Ownership (Implicit or Explicit) Indicates Or Impliementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Confirming and Extending Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Time, Ownership and Awareness: The Value of Contextual Locations in the Home

Elliot

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Greenberg

2005

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Survey on recent smart gateways for smart home: Systems, technologies, and challenges

Wang

et al. 2020

Trans Emerging Tel Tech

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A smart gateway, which plays a crucial role in a smart home, generally bridges the inside and outside home networks, as well as collaboratively manages the intelligent Internet of things (IoT) devices equipped in the smart home, due to it can convert different communication protocols, gather generated data from surrounding devices, and even conduct some local data processing tasks. In this survey, we first review the whole smart home research area with a focus on a framework based on edge computing and multiple intelligent agents. Then, relying on the time‐line and different metrics including quality of experience (QoE), artificial intelligence support, software‐defined network, and so on, we divide the evolution of smart gateways into three generations. Considering recent smart gateways mainly belong to the second generation, we further investigate and classify them into two categories from another perspective of user‐awareness and data‐awareness. Afterward, we discussed the key enabling technologies and components of smart gateways, such as operating systems, wireless communication protocols, and security. At last, we explore the challenges and trends of smart gateways and point out that maximizing QoE as well as data‐awareness is the key feature of future gateways. This survey has practical significance for building a smart home system, broadly speaking, even for constructing the IoT and smart space.

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Interactions of fast‐moving consumer goods in cooking: Insights from a quantitative ethnographic study

2022

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Fast‐moving consumer goods (FMCGs) are increasingly equipped with enhanced packaging that incorporates novel functionalities. Providing FMCGs with this technology is challenging due to their unique characteristics, such as their low cost and short lifespan. Knowledge derived from a comprehension of their interactions in practice can help develop FMCGs that better cater to consumer needs and are well‐integrated into real‐world contexts. To help develop a method for the formation of such practical insights, 20 households were visited where participants were then observed as they cooked a meal. The sessions were captured on video, and a detailed record of the interactions between individuals, FMCGs and other items was made. A quantitative ethnographic approach was applied to analyse and build an understanding of different aspects of these interactions including their frequential, sequential and correlational features. The findings are discussed through the lens of how an appreciation of the interactions of FMCGs can serve as a valuable guidance for the design and development of their enhanced counterparts. The discovery that FMCGs are linked to the use of other items, for instance, is proposed as an opportunity to make use of the unique properties of the other items that a given FMCG commonly interacts with as a resource to create functionalities. As an exploratory reflection of how FMCGs are utilised in practice, the methods and knowledge presented in this study can be valuable in creating enhanced FMCGs by advocating for a product development process in which decisions are firmly grounded in empirical insights.

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Finding a Place for UbiComp in the Home

Cited by 82 publications

References 8 publications

Time, Ownership and Awareness: The Value of Contextual Locations in the Home

Time, Ownership and Awareness: The Value of Contextual Locations in the Home

Survey on recent smart gateways for smart home: Systems, technologies, and challenges

Interactions of fast‐moving consumer goods in cooking: Insights from a quantitative ethnographic study

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