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Neustaedter, C., Elliot, K. and Greenberg, S. (2005)
Understanding Interpersonal Awareness in the Home. In Workshop on Awareness systems: Known Results, Theory, Concepts and Future Challenges – held at ACM CHI’05. Organized by Panos Markopoulos, de Ruyter, Boris, and Mackay, Wendy, April.
Type: Refereed workshop.
Earlier version: compiled in Report 2005-772-03, February.
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Abstract.
As the development of home technologies continues to increase so does the need to understand and design technologies to support and enhance the everyday lives of home inhabitants. The focus of this paper is on one facet of home life that technology can be designed to support, namely interpersonal awareness. Specifically, we outline the beginnings of a conceptual framework for interpersonal
awareness where we describe the types of people for whom this awareness is desired, the low-level details of maintaining this awareness, and the maintenance problems faced by home inhabitants in gathering this awareness. Our goal is to provide designers and practitioners with a unified and detailed understanding of interpersonal awareness that can guide the design of groupware applications to enhance
the domestic routines of home inhabitants.
Keywords: Interpersonal awareness, ubiquitous groupware, home technologies, contextual locations.