Field research methods are useful in the many aspects of Human-Computer Interaction
research, including gathering user requirements, understanding and develo** user …

A “smart home” can be defined as a residence equipped with computing and information
technology which anticipates and responds to the needs of the occupants, working to …

Domestic service robots have long been a staple of science fiction and commercial visions
of the future. Until recently, we have only been able to speculate about what the experience …

Fieldwork for Design looks at why ethnographic approaches have been turned to in the
design of computing devices for the workplace, for the home and elsewhere. It presents a …

Robots that work with people foster social relationships between people and systems. The
home is an interesting place to study the adoption and use of these systems. The home …

Smart devices are increasingly being designed for, and adopted in, the home environment.
Prior scholarship has investigated the challenges that users face as they take up these …

The rapid growth and development of the Internet and the resulting growth in interest in
access to network facilities highlight an increasing prominence of computer technology in …

This paper presents a method to estimate geometrical, photometrical, and environmental
information of a single-viewed object in one integrated framework under fixed viewing …

The Casablanca project explored how media space concepts could be incorporated into
households and family life. This effort included prototypes built for the researchers' own …

As more people gain at‐home access to the Internet, information seeking on the Web has
become embedded in everyday life. The objective of this study was to characterize the home …