A day in the life of things in the home

This paper is about human interaction with things in the home. It is of potential relevance to developers of the Internet of Things (IoT), but it is not a technological paper. Rather, it presents a preliminary observational study of a day in a life of things in the home. The study was done out of cu...

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Main Authors: Crabtree, Andy, Tolmie, Peter
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30347/
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description This paper is about human interaction with things in the home. It is of potential relevance to developers of the Internet of Things (IoT), but it is not a technological paper. Rather, it presents a preliminary observational study of a day in a life of things in the home. The study was done out of curiosity - to see, given the emphasis on ‘things’ in the IoT, what mundane interaction with things looks like and is about. The results draw attention to the sheer scale of interaction with things, key areas of domestic activity in which interaction is embedded, and what it is about domestic life that gives data about interaction its sense. Each of these issues raises possibilities and challenges for IoT development in the home.
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spelling nottingham-303472020-05-04T17:35:14Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30347/ A day in the life of things in the home Crabtree, Andy Tolmie, Peter This paper is about human interaction with things in the home. It is of potential relevance to developers of the Internet of Things (IoT), but it is not a technological paper. Rather, it presents a preliminary observational study of a day in a life of things in the home. The study was done out of curiosity - to see, given the emphasis on ‘things’ in the IoT, what mundane interaction with things looks like and is about. The results draw attention to the sheer scale of interaction with things, key areas of domestic activity in which interaction is embedded, and what it is about domestic life that gives data about interaction its sense. Each of these issues raises possibilities and challenges for IoT development in the home. 2016-02-27 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Crabtree, Andy and Tolmie, Peter (2016) A day in the life of things in the home. In: 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 16), February 27 - March 2 2016, San Francisco, USA. Ethnography Domestic environment Mundane interaction with things Internet of Things http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2818048.2819954
spellingShingle Ethnography
Domestic environment
Mundane interaction with things
Internet of Things
Crabtree, Andy
Tolmie, Peter
A day in the life of things in the home
title A day in the life of things in the home
title_full A day in the life of things in the home
title_fullStr A day in the life of things in the home
title_full_unstemmed A day in the life of things in the home
title_short A day in the life of things in the home
title_sort day in the life of things in the home
topic Ethnography
Domestic environment
Mundane interaction with things
Internet of Things
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30347/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30347/