Tuesday
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Allison Woodruff
Sally Augustin
Brooke Foucault
Presents a qualitative study of the use of home automation by 20 Orthodox Jewish families. Offers insights and design implications for user experience with smart home technology and religious technology.
William Gaver
Phoebe Sengers
Tobie Kerridge
Joseph "Jofish" Kaye
John Bowers
The paper illustrates how designing to encourage user interpretation may supplement sensor-based inferencing in a home environment. Offers a new approach to those interested in developing domestic ubiquitous computing applications.
Erika Shehan
W. Keith Edwards
We analyze why home networking is difficult, argue that the HCI community needs to be involved in resolving these problems, and discuss potential research efforts in home network usability.