Saul Greenberg

Readings in Domestic Computing

This page is being transferred over from the old web site. Ignore it for now.

Thinking about a Ubicomp Society

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  1. Tolmie, P., Pycock, J., Diggins, T., MacLean, A., and Karsenty, A. 2002.
    Unremarkable computing. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Changing Our World, Changing Ourselves (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, April 20 - 25, 2002). CHI '02. ACM, , 399-406.

Case Study of Home Messenging

  1. Sellen, A., Harper, R., Eardley, R., Izadi, S., Regan, T., Taylor, A. S., and Wood, K. R. 2006.
    HomeNote: supporting situated messaging in the home. In Proceedings 2006 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 04 - 08, 2006). CSCW '06. ACM, New York, NY, 383-392.

Case Study: Digital Photos in the Home

  1. Andrew D. Miller and W. Keith Edwards
    Give and Take: A Study of Consumer Photo-Sharing Culture and Practice, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2007). San Jose, Caifornia. April 28-May 3, 2007.

Case Study: The Smart Home

The Smart Home has been proposed for ages. But is it something we really want, or is it just a technologist's playground? Kidd, C., Orr, R.J., Abowd, G.D., Atkeson, C.G., Essa, I.A., MacIntyre, B., Mynatt, E.D., Starner, T.E. and Newstetter, W.,
The Aware Home: A Living Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing Research Proc. Second International Workshop on Cooperative Buildings (CoBuild'99), Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag (1999).

Case Study: Home Networking

I haven't read all these papers yet, but have collected what seems to be the key ones from Keith Edwards' and Beki Grinter's web site. She introduces this by writing: "Visions of next generation systems, along with prototypes, will serve to increase the technology required by homeowners. ...We explore these systems and their needs, and the commitments on the part of the researchers in deployment and evaluation. We also explore questions about how we migrate householders from their somewhat stupid homes of today towards the smart home of tomorrow. A question to ponder (by someone much wiser than me) is "how smart does your home have to be before you are frightened to go to bed?"

  1. Erika Shehan, Marshini Chetty, Rebecca E. Grinter, and W. Keith Edwards.
    More Than Meets the Eye: Transforming the User Experience of Home Network Management. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2008). Cape Town, South Africa. February 25-27, 2008.
  2. Kenneth L. Calvert, W. Keith Edwards, and Rebecca E. Grinter
    Moving Toward the Middle: The Case Against the End-to-End Argument in Home Networking. Proceedings of the Sixth ACM Conference on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-VI). Atlanta, GA. November 14-15, 2007.
  3. W. Keith Edwards, Erika Shehan Poole, and Jennifer Stoll
    Security Automation Considered Harmful? Proceedings of the IEEE New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW 2007). White Mountain, New Hampshire. September 18-21, 2007.
  4. Jeonghwa Yang and W. Keith Edwards
    ICEbox: Toward Easy-to-Use Home Networking, Proceedings of the Eleventh IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2007). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. September 10-14, 2007.
  5. Erika Shehan and W. Keith Edwards
    Home Networking and HCI: What Hath God Wrought? Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2007). San Jose, Caifornia. April 28-May 3, 2007.
  6. Rebecca E. Grinter, W. Keith Edwards, Mark W. Newman, Nicolas Ducheneaut.
    The Work to Make a Home Network Work, Proceedings of the Ninth European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW’05). Paris, France. September 18-22, 2005.
  7. Peter Tolmie, Andy Crabtree, Tom Rodden, Chris Greenhalgh and Steve Benford
    Making the Home Network at Home: Digital Housekeeping. Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Limerick, Ireland, 24-28 September 2007

Case Study: Home Security

As with home networking, home security can be somewhat of a nightmare to understand, set up, and maintain. I haven't read all these papers yet, but have collected what seems to be the key ones from Keith Edwards' and Beki Grinter's web site.

  1. Jennifer Stoll, Craig Tashman, W. Keith Edwards, and Kyle Spafford.
    Sesame: Informing User Security Decisions with System Visualization. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008). Florence, Italy. April 5-10, 2008.
  2. Balfanz D., Durfee, G., Grinter R. E. and D. K. Smetters (2004)
    In Search of Usable Security - Five Lessons from the Field". IEEE Security & Privacy, Special Issue on Usable Security. September/October. 19-24.
  3. Dourish, P., Grinter, R. E., Delgado de la Flor, J. and M. Joseph \\ "Security in the Wild: User Strategies for Managing Security as an Everyday, Practical Problem." Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 8(6): 391-401. (2004)

Case Study: Music Sharing

Music sharing is endemic. These papers probe at the practices surrounding it.

  1. Voida, A., Grinter, R. E., Ducheneaut, N., Edwards W. K. and M. W. Newman
    Listening in: Practices Surrounding iTunes Music Sharing in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2005). Portland, Oregon, April 2-7. 191-200. (2005)
  2. Brown, B., A. Sellen, E. Geelhoed (2001)
    Music sharing as a computer supported collaborative application. In: Proceedings of ECSCW 2001, Bonn, Germany. Kluwer academic publishers.

Case Study: Communication

[-A natural focus for CSCCW research remains communications, within and among homes. Some significant changes from the previous work include the presence of children as participants for the studies. What are their communications needs and why? These questions again explored the broader domain of collaboration within and among homes. Another area explored was the coordination around images—photographs play an important role in families lives.(intro by Beki Grinter) Note that there are many other articles written on domestic cell phone use (I have several books on it) and chat systems. This is just an entry point. -]

  1. Grinter, R. E., Palen, L., and Eldridge, M. 2006.
    Chatting with teenagers: Considering the place of chat technologies in teen life. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 13, 4 (Dec. 2006), 423-447.
  2. Taylor, A. S. and Harper, R. 2002.
    Age-old practices in the 'new world': a study of gift-giving between teenage mobile phone users. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Changing Our World, Changing Ourselves (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, April 20 - 25, 2002). CHI '02. ACM, New York, NY, 439-446.
  3. Palen, L. and Liu, S. B. 2007.
    Citizen communications in crisis: anticipating a future of ICT-supported public participation. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (San Jose, California, USA, April 28 - May 03, 2007). CHI '07. ACM, New York, NY, 727-736.
  4. Shklovski, I. A. and Mainwaring, S. D. 2005.
    [[http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1054972.1055058 |Exploring technology adoption and use through the lens of residential mobility.] In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Portland, Oregon, USA, April 02 - 07, 2005). CHI '05. ACM, 621-630.

Case Study: Reliability

Does software engineering and reliability differ for home situations?

  1. Sommerville, I. and Dewsbury, G.
    Dependable domestic systems design: A socio-technical approach?. Interacting with Computers, 19, 438-456, 2007.

Some other interesting papers (a somewhat random collection)

  1. Erika S. Poole, Christopher A. Le Dantec, James R. Eagan, and W. Keith Edwards.
    Reflecting on the Invisible: Understanding End-User Perceptions of Ubiquitous Computing. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2008). Seoul, South Korea, September 21-24, 2008.

Earlier work in Domestic Computing

  1. Venkatesh, A.,
    Computers and Other Interactive Technologies for the Home, Communications of the ACM 39, 12 (1996), 47-54.
    • Beki Grinter thinks that this and the next paper represents the first two studies of computing in the home
  2. Vitalari, N.P., Venkatesh, A. and Gronhaug, K.,
    Computing in the Home: Shifts in the Time Allocation Patterns of Households. Communications of the ACM 28, 5 (1985), 512-522.
  3. Kraut, R., Mukhopadhyay, T., Szczypula, J., Kiesler, S. and Scherlis, W.,
    Information and Communication: Alternative Uses of the Internet in Households, Information Systems Research 10, 4 (1999), 287-303.
  4. Kraut, R., Scherlis, W., Mukhopadhyay, T., Manning, J. and Kiesler, S.,
    HomeNet: A Field Trial of Residential Internet Services. Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI '96, ACM Press (1996), 284-291.

Of course, for smart homes, there's nothing like

Readings for the Qualitative Research Course Component

These can now be found at: this page?

Extra reading:

  1. Seidman, Irving (2005)
    Interviewing As Qualitative Research. Teachers College Press; 3 edition (Nov 22 )
    • Chapter 6 (extract) - personal copy, not publicly available

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