“What do you want for dinner?”: need anticipation and the design of proactive technologies for the home

This paper examines ‘the routine shop’ as part of a project that is exploring automation and autonomy in the Internet of Things. In particular we explicate the ‘work’ involved in anticipating need using an ethnomethodological analysis that makes visible the mundane, ‘seen but unnoticed’ methodologie...

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Main Authors: Hyland, Lewis, Crabtree, Andy, Fischer, Joel E., Colley, James, Fuentes, Carolina
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Published: Springer 2018
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51327/
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author Hyland, Lewis
Crabtree, Andy
Fischer, Joel E.
Colley, James
Fuentes, Carolina
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description This paper examines ‘the routine shop’ as part of a project that is exploring automation and autonomy in the Internet of Things. In particular we explicate the ‘work’ involved in anticipating need using an ethnomethodological analysis that makes visible the mundane, ‘seen but unnoticed’ methodologies that household members accountably employ to organise list construction and accomplish calculation on the shop floor. We discuss and reflect on the challenges members’ methodologies pose for proactive systems that seek to support domestic grocery shopping, including the challenges of sensing, learning and predicting, and gearing autonomous agents into social practice within the home.
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spelling nottingham-513272020-05-04T19:37:03Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51327/ “What do you want for dinner?”: need anticipation and the design of proactive technologies for the home Hyland, Lewis Crabtree, Andy Fischer, Joel E. Colley, James Fuentes, Carolina This paper examines ‘the routine shop’ as part of a project that is exploring automation and autonomy in the Internet of Things. In particular we explicate the ‘work’ involved in anticipating need using an ethnomethodological analysis that makes visible the mundane, ‘seen but unnoticed’ methodologies that household members accountably employ to organise list construction and accomplish calculation on the shop floor. We discuss and reflect on the challenges members’ methodologies pose for proactive systems that seek to support domestic grocery shopping, including the challenges of sensing, learning and predicting, and gearing autonomous agents into social practice within the home. Springer 2018-05-19 Article PeerReviewed Hyland, Lewis, Crabtree, Andy, Fischer, Joel E., Colley, James and Fuentes, Carolina (2018) “What do you want for dinner?”: need anticipation and the design of proactive technologies for the home. Computer Supported Cooperative Work . pp. 1-30. ISSN 1573-7551 Ethnomethodology domestic grocery shopping proactive technology automation autonomous agents https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10606-018-9314-4 doi:10.1007/s10606-018-9314-4 doi:10.1007/s10606-018-9314-4
spellingShingle Ethnomethodology
domestic grocery shopping
proactive technology
automation
autonomous agents
Hyland, Lewis
Crabtree, Andy
Fischer, Joel E.
Colley, James
Fuentes, Carolina
“What do you want for dinner?”: need anticipation and the design of proactive technologies for the home
title “What do you want for dinner?”: need anticipation and the design of proactive technologies for the home
title_full “What do you want for dinner?”: need anticipation and the design of proactive technologies for the home
title_fullStr “What do you want for dinner?”: need anticipation and the design of proactive technologies for the home
title_full_unstemmed “What do you want for dinner?”: need anticipation and the design of proactive technologies for the home
title_short “What do you want for dinner?”: need anticipation and the design of proactive technologies for the home
title_sort “what do you want for dinner?”: need anticipation and the design of proactive technologies for the home
topic Ethnomethodology
domestic grocery shopping
proactive technology
automation
autonomous agents
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51327/
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https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51327/